When you move from using glucose to fuel your brain to ketones, which are the biologically preferred method, you have a shake-out period of a couple of weeks. After all most of us need to detoxify from an actual addiction to sugar. And in fact there is good evidence that you have a more global, broader perception with a low carb diet.
Add to that that many of us have gluten sensitivity, which disappears with a low carb diet, and there is much better cognitive ability.
m is correct that a longer study would have had different results.
And isn't it curious that a high carb diet is considered "balanced" when for most of human history we ate a low carbohydrate paleolithic diet with only a few nibbles of the indigenous grass heads in season.
Karen Vaughan, Licensed Acupuncturist and Registered Herbalist (AHG)
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When you move from using glucose to fuel your brain to ketones, which are the biologically preferred method, you have a shake-out period of a couple of weeks. After all most of us need to detoxify from an actual addiction to sugar. And in fact there is good evidence that you have a more global, broader perception with a low carb diet.
Add to that that many of us have gluten sensitivity, which disappears with a low carb diet, and there is much better cognitive ability.
m is correct that a longer study would have had different results.
And isn't it curious that a high carb diet is considered "balanced" when for most of human history we ate a low carbohydrate paleolithic diet with only a few nibbles of the indigenous grass heads in season.
Karen Vaughan, Licensed Acupuncturist and Registered Herbalist (AHG)
May 15, 2009 - 11:09pmThis Comment
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