From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 16:46:40 MDT
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:44:08PM -0400, gts wrote:
>
> A huge theoretical problem I have with Atkins is that the brain subsists
> almost entirely on glucose. It uses something like 25% of available glucose
> while representing only something like 5% of total body weight.
A related issue which would be interesting to examine is the memory
effects. Glucose is a memory enhancer, and seems to act by stimulating
the basal forebrain/septal area to sent acetylcholine to the
hippocampus. Giving it glucose-like chemicals produces the same effect,
and has the same inverted-u dose response curve. But what about
ketones?
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