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‘balanced’ diet. The ketogenic diet is an attempt to harness this shift to cause maximum fat loss and minimum muscle loss, as di ...

nervous system (CNS) (24,25). The CNS and brain are the largest consumers of glucose on a daily basis, requiring roughly 104 gra ...

Please note that the following discussion is only truly relevant to individuals on a Standard Ketogenic Diet (SKD) who are not e ...

longer periods of starvation, blood levels of alanine and glutamine continue to decrease, as does glucose production by the live ...

still provide 18 grams of glucose per day, protein breakdown will only be 20 grams per day (see table 2 on the next page) (6). A ...

literature. To briefly recap, by shifting the body’s overall metabolism to fat and ketones (especially in the brain), less prote ...

ketosis, muscles derive less only 4-6% of their energy from ketone bodies (22). This becomes important when considering the time ...

The body has two types of thyroid hormones (42). The primary active thyroid hormone is T3, called triiodothyronine. T3 is respon ...

A large increase in the breakdown of body protein during the initial stages of starvation provides the liver and kidney with the ...

Elia M. et. al. Ketone body metabolism in lean male adults during short-term starvation, with particular reference to forearm m ...

Pasquali R. et. al. Effects of dietary carbohydrates during hypocaloric treatment of obesity on peripheral thyroid hormone meta ...

Chapter 6: Changes in body composition Having discussed the primary metabolic adaptations which occur during ketosis in the prev ...

This equation represents the relative tendency for a given macronutrient to either promote or prevent a ketogenic state (1). Rec ...

Fat Fat is primarily ketogenic (90%) but also has a slight anti-ketogenic effect (10%). This represents the fact that ten percen ...

After much research, it was concluded that a protein intake of 1.5-1.75 grams protein per kilogram of ideal body weight (ideal b ...

Assuming zero carbohydrate intake, during the first 3 weeks of a ketogenic diet a protein intake of ~150 grams per day should be ...

Many early ketogenic diet studies simply subtracted muscle loss from total weight loss and assumed the difference represented fa ...

Additionally, since the major adaptations to ketosis (especially with regards to protein sparing) take at least 3 weeks to occur ...

protein for 9 weeks (18). Carbohydrate intake varied from 104 grams to 60 grams to 30 grams. Although all three groups were in k ...

All that can be said from most of these studies is that a non-ketogenic diet will spare nitrogen better than a ketogenic diet as ...