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hey guys I want to answer question can

your brain survive without carbs I

always get this question and people are

confused about it and they’re consuming

all sorts of carbs thinking that your

brain can only run on those

carbohydrates well it is true that the

brain does run on glucose and it’s true

that your brain needs like 600 calories

that’s 25% of all your calories that you

eat every single day your brain needs

that so it needs a lot of energy and so

but here’s the truth you can run your

body

I’m sorry run your brain on ketones okay

it’s an alternative fuel source in fact

your brain likes ketones better than

glucose and that way you avoid the highs

and the lows and you become mention

mentally more stable the problem is it

takes a while to get in ketosis and so

if you are in the transition phase you

know for two weeks or three weeks or

even a month or longer you can feel kind

of tired in your head because you

haven’t built the enzymes and the

machinery to run on ketones and change

over the different fuel source all you

have to do is add more B vitamins to

make this process work a little bit

better so and your energy will start

coming up and use nutritional yeast for

that because the new machines need more

B vitamins okay now what your body it

will run on ketones but if it needs

glucose it will convert protein in your

diet and the fat in the diet or on your

body to glucose so you if you don’t you

don’t have to consume glucose for the

brain your body can make it out of your

own tissues okay

like specially fat so and it’s called

gluconeogenesis the formation of new

sugar

it’s that happens in your liver and when

you consume protein part of that is used

for fuel part of that is used for body

tissues so the part that’s used for fuel

can be converted to glucose so your

brain or your body has ability to do

that so so can your brain survive

without carbs absolutely in fact

probably much better than with carbs

people that you have a lot of carbs have

a lot of brain fog all right

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