Author: DesignedByNature
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Demand or supply
Conversion of protein to glucose Among the keto crowd we have people who go full carnivore. Especially in the carnivore community they have posed that the conversion of protein to glucose (gluconeogenesis or GNG) is demand driven so excess amino acids (from the protein eaten) do not convert to glucose if there is no demand…
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Ketones and oxygen
If you have read my previous work regarding oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO2) you probably would expect, as I did, that on keto your oxygen saturation in the blood would be huncky dory. But it was not as expected to be 98% or 99%. Instead it is hovering around 96%. Yes there is a certain…
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Longevity (2)
Vaccination Oh dear, do we dare to write about being pro- or anti-vaccination? I think I MUST do it. There is no such thing as censorship in science. And if there is one topic that is very heated at the moment that deserves a lot of attention from science then it is vaccination because the…
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Longevity (1)
I am almost finished with the book “Lifespan: Why we age – and why we don’t have to” from David Sinclair. In this book he explains the result of his research in a very readable way, avoiding much of the scientific language so that it is accessible to everybody. While reading the book, I recognized…
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CO2 and nutrition
The different fuel types that are available for our body need to be converted into acetyl-Coa to enter into the citric acid cycle and are processed equally. But the processes to turn glucose and fatty acids (and ketones) into acetyl-Coa are different. One of these differences is that glucose produces carbon dioxide (CO2) while doing…
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Dietary protein and glucose
I am a fan of the ketogenic diet because of all its likely health benefits. Not all of them are proven or necesessarily obtained because of the ketones themselves but a lot of the mechanisms are known and research is really booming. Would it be booming if there is nothing interesting about them? In any…
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Disclaimer
I think it would be good to start my blogs with a disclaimer that I can refer to at all times. Since most topics will result in an understanding of how things work and how we can influence that through our lifestyle, people will make decisions that most certainly can have an impact on their…
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What drives me…
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” — Francis Bacon I was living a healthy life according to the guidelines. Sportive (cycling, running, snowboarding, hiking), whole grain food with lots of vegetables, not a lot of meat, daily…
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Who am I
My name is Sven Braem. I’ve always had an interest in health, like most people you could say. Who doesn’t want to be healthy, right? Yet following the dietary guidelines, lots of vegetables, some fruit, low fat, primarily oils from plant origins I was slipping away from health so I turned my general health focus…
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