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The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

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The Effects of Lactate on the Brain

The brain prefers to use different fuels substrates if they're available the glucose is just like a very it's a good survival fuel sort of say that. The body goes into okay we don't know when our last meal is gonna come from so therefore we're gonna just burn the glucose or try to absorb it as much as possibleOkay, here's a super random hypothetical question that would never really even exist but as a thought experiment say you had one person fueling on glucose primarily for their glucose but in a let's say a calorie restricted state compared to a person creating glucose via gluconeogenesis on a low carb diet and because of the extra stuff perhaps it pans out to the same amount of energy

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