"Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
om...
> > Then with all that higher education please explain to me how you can say
> > ketosis is safe. Your brain, as well as everyone elses, needs glucose to
> > function properly.
>
> Right here you show your ignorance. Normally glucose is used, but when
there
> is not enough the brain and other tissues can use ketones for fuel,
> replacing glucose through a parallel metabolic pathway.

The brain runs on GLUCOSE not KETONES! When ketones are being used it is in
extreme emergency conditions such as STARVATION!!! It is also very common
medical fact that the brain running on ketones is not running at peak
performance (ie. sluggish, foggy, forgetful, posting idiotic posts in
Usenet...). It is NOT the brains primary or preferred fuel. Can you agree
with this? Pretty elementary stuff Peter, but hey, I'm ignorant.


> > Without it, the brain doesn't function properly (maybe
> > thats why all the low-carbers believe the crap they're being fed). When
> > your body encounters this situation it starts breaking down muscle and
> organ
> > tissue to provide the necessary glucose. Thats MUSCLE and ORGAN tissue
> > Peter! Still safe?
> >
>
> Again your ignorance shows. When there's not enough carbs (glucose) the
body
> breaks down fat, not muscles and organs. It's from metablizing fat that
the
> ketones are produced. Only when the fat is gone does the body start
breaking
> down muscle tissue.

This is simply not true Peter. Muscle and organ tissue are not spared in the
bodies attempt to create glucose. The body does use stored fat
(triglycerides) to create ketones but it cannot completely break this fat
up. To completely breakdown body fat 2 things are needed - oxygen and guess
what else Peter.....GLUCOSE!!! But remember Peter, we don't have any because
we are starving our bodies of this essential fuel. Great diet huh? Lets see
now if I were a body where would I get glucose in this time of trauma? Ahhh,
guess what Peter, protein contains glucose and guess where it gets that
from? MUSCLES and ORGAN TISSUE! A diet high in protein and low in
carbohydrates will not spare muscle protein from being broken down....unless
you eat enough carbohydrate. You see Peter, you've bought into this low
carb crap and you will not listen to anything else, fact or otherwise. Its
sad.

> <snipped>
>
> I cannot continue. You are so abysmally ignorant of how the human body
works
> that trying to explain it to you would be like trying to explain the
> calculus to a fence post. Where on earth did you pick up this claptrap you
> are spouting? And yes, I *am* talking down to you. By believing and
> repeating such drivel you have placed yourself in a position where there
is
> no other option. You do have the choice of opening your mind and trying to
> learn something ... but my guess is that you won't.

Abysmally ignorant? You like to call people ignorant don't you Peter? Is
that what higher education does to people? I wouldn't be too proud to flaunt
my academic credentials if I acted as foolishly as you are here. I can only
assume that since you are admitting to "talking down" to me that that is the
equivalent of stamping your feet and crying like a baby. You are resorting
to childish behaviour without intelligently refuting any of my "claptrap".
Pointing at how ignorant I am and talking down to me isn't very clever
Peter, come on show us all that Mom and Pop didn't waste all that tuition
money, tell us how the human body works.

PS. I've found most people that use the word "ignorant" are typically that
themselves.

>
> --
> Peter Aitken
>
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