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i had an interesting question from someone that  wanted to know why do i get so angry and irritable  

when i start fasting okay it’s a legitimate  question and quite a few people have this happen  

and i want to talk about exactly what’s going  on okay there’s actually three main types of  

fuel that your body actually runs off of  you got sugar you got ketones over here  

and then you have fatty acids okay so when someone  lowers their carbs and sugars and they start  

producing ketones as their main fuel they’re  only going to really be running on 40 of ketones  

nearly 60 percent of their fuel is fatty  acids the metabolic switch that makes this  

all happen isn’t always efficient okay if you have  a history of having long-term insulin resistance  

then it’s going to take a while for your body  to become more flexible in this transition  

and in the process you might feel more irritable  when you fast you might feel angry edgy  

not very friendly you might have a  low tolerance to stress and this is  

all occurring because of two things happening in  your body one is the years of insulin resistance  

is making it difficult to get any glucose in the  cell because you need insulin to absorb glucose  

and so if you have insulin resistance you’re not  pulling in glucose and then when you go on a low  

carb low sugar diet now you’re really going to be  low on glucose so you’re going to be dependent on  

ketones and fatty acids but the problem is your  brain is the only organ that can’t use fatty acids  

it can only use ketones and glucose  well you haven’t transitioned over  

to running on ketones 100 so your brain is  going to suffer and this is why your mood  

suffers okay so you have two solutions you  can either just give it time and wait for  

your body to fully adapt to the point where  now you’re more efficient you’re more flexible  

and your brain is getting on the ketones or you  can just simply add some more ketones to your diet  

in this transition phase so you would take some  mct oil either a liquid or a powder you can also  

do exogenous ketones but those are a bit expensive  but realize that you’re just in this transition  

it’s only temporary and you don’t want to give up  you want to push through keep lowering your carbs  

and eventually you’ll feel really good when you’re  doing fasting and when you’re on a ketogenic diet  

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