pimg class=”alignright” title=”Brain Blueprint” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/LowRes2.jpg” alt=”LowRes2″ width=”320″ height=”320″ /We now know that the oft-repeated #8220;your brain only runs on glucose!#8221; a title=”Brain metabolism during fasting.” href=”http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6061736″ target=”_blank”is wrong/a. I#8217;ve a title=”A Metabolic Paradigm Shift, or Why Fat is the Preferred Fuel for Human Metabolism ” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/a-metabolic-paradigm-shift-fat-carbs-human-body-metabolism/#axzz1zQEs1ZJh”mentioned it before/a, and anyone who#8217;s taken the time to get a title=”A Metabolic Paradigm Shift, or Why Fat is the Preferred Fuel for Human Metabolism” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/a-metabolic-paradigm-shift-fat-carbs-human-body-metabolism/”fat-adapted/a on a low-carb a title=”The Definitive Guide to the Primal Eating Plan” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-to-the-primal-eating-plan/#axzz1zRC7xjZb”Primal eating plan/a intuitively knows that your brain doesn#8217;t need piles of glucose to work, because, well, they#8217;re using their brain to read this sentence. Obviously, you eventually adapt and find you have sufficient (if not much improved) cognition without all those carbs. That said, some a title=”The Definitive Guide to Sugar” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-sugar/#axzz1zRCTnHV4″glucose/a is required, and that#8217;s where people get tripped up. #8221;Glucose is required#8221; sounds an awful […]

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