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Self Experiments In the Biochemically Unoptimized State

Mastering Nutrition

CHAPTER

The Effects of Carbohydrates on Metabolism

The first night I combined 83 grams of cooked and cooled salted new potatoes and 31 grams of whole wheat sourdough toast. The second night I combined 10 grams of dextrose with 27 grams of carbs from the potato and 13.5 grams of carb from maple syrup, providing approximately 50 grams of total carbs. In each case about 2 grams of carbs came from fiber. Both of these were done after fasting till at least 4 pm in order to see if ketones rose rather than felled over the course of 15 minutes.

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