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PROTEIN SERIES: Protein, OMAD & Gluconeogenesis with Dr Angela Stanton

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

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What Happens to Protein When We Eat It?

The whole reason we were talking about this chart is to talk about what happens to protein when we eat it. There are five that can be either ketogenic or glucogenic depending upon who you are. And so the body isn't converting the ketones into fat, but those variables are also turned to glucose. They're actually converting 82%. But we're not using it as glucose and I think this is what confusing everyone. So let's go back to the mitochondria. The mitochondria getting the protein. We know that the mitochondria doesn't get glucose and it doesn't get ketones. It gets acetyl coenzyme right? So my company has no idea what it's getting

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