Tag: insulin

• Berberine on low carb

  I’ve recently came across 2 cases of people who reported elevated glucose and insulin on a low carb diet. Naturally that is alarming because if there is one thing that low carb does well for you, it is to keep glucose and insulin low. It started with a person who recently came to the r/ketoscience…

  DesignedByNature

  7 March 2020

  Geen categorie

  berberine, glucagon, gluconeogenesis, glucose, insulin, ketogenic diet, kidneys, lactate

• Cholesterol or ketones, can we have both?

  I wanted to know the relationship between and what drives production of cholesterol versus ketones. The simple reason being that 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl Coa or HMG-Coa (HMG) is either reduced by HMG-Coa reductase (HMGr) into the pathway towards cholesterol or HMG-Coa lyase (HMGl) sets it on the pathway towards Acetoacetate. So 2 enzymes work on the same…

  DesignedByNature

  2 March 2020

  Geen categorie

  carnivore, cholesterol, estrogen, glucagon, HMG-Coa, insulin, ketones, LMHR, T3, thyroid

• 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…

  DesignedByNature

  22 December 2019

  Geen categorie

  glucagon, gluconeogenesis, GNG, insulin, ketones, kidneys, liver, postprandial