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Self Experiments In the Biochemically Unoptimized State

Mastering Nutrition

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The Role of Protein in Insulin Sensitivity

The main mechanism operating here is most likely that protein is helping to fill up the citric acid cycle in the pancreatic beta cell. Providing citric acidcycle components is called anoplorosis from the Greek word for filling up. And a, anoplyrosis followed by cataplyrosis when there's more of it than you need. All of these effects would become much more relevant to state of biotin deficiency according to my hypothesis where the ability of glucose to generate oxalate through pyruvacarboxylase is compromised.

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