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Nutrition 101: What is gluconeogenesis?
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Nutrition 101: What is gluconeogenesis?
You're on a low carbohydrate diet. Somebody tells you you'll starve your brain. Everyone knows the brain runs on glucose. Carbohydrates are essential to making glucose, right? Wrong.
Fact: your body can make glucose without carbohydrates. Your brain will not starve if you're on a low carbohydrate or even a no carb diet. (Eating a no carbohydrate diet is not optimal due to probable vitamin, mineral and antioxidant deficiencies, not a lack of glucose.) The mechanism by which your body makes glucose, when carbohydrates are limited or not present in your diet, is called gluconeogenesis. "Gluco" meaning glucose (blood sugar), "neo" meaning new, and "genesis" meaning ...
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