In Ketosis Can Ketones Meet Caloric Requirements

[Elie]

Does any of the scientist or scientific minds of this community have data as to whether during ketosis (when not enough glucose is supplied) the body produces enough ketones to meet, at the very least, the brain's and red blood cells caloric requirements.

or otherwise, must it go onto gluconeogenic mode?

would love to see numbers

Thanks!

 

[LLight]

In people fasting: Brain Metabolism during Fasting

"With measured cerebral blood flow of 45 ml/100 g of tissue per min, and assuming a brain size of 1400 g the 24 hr glucose oxidation would approximate 24 g, which agrees well with the theoretical maximum of 33 g calculated from nitrogen execretion and glycerol from adipose tissue as described above. The third confirmatory evidence for this marked reduction in glucose metabolism has been data, which obtained from hepatic and renal vein catheterization studies, demonstrated that the liver almost totally
ceases to synthesize glucose from amino acids and the kidney assumes the role of the major source of this diminished amount of glucose daily produced and consumed during starvation."

Maybe it can answer one of your question.

 

[Elie]

Maybe it can answer one of your question.

thank you.
I will check that out.