A Costly However Beneficial Lesson in Ketosis

Ketosis occurs when the body uses fat as its main fuel. According to well-known low carb researchers Stephen Phinney and Jeff Volek, 0.5 mM is the very bottom of the cutoff for Parabroom nutritional ketosis (0.5-5.0 mM) (6), so it's possible that subjects would have had even better improvement in cognitive assessments if their ketone levels were higher. I left off in part 1 emphasizing that the energy shortage in the brain is specific to glucose, and proposing that it would be possible to nourish these starving cells if there were some type of alternative fuel they could use. In…