Paul Saladino· MD
you do become physiologically insulin resistant when you are ketogenic so i'm i'm sure you experienced this in the rangers you know you're out you haven't eaten for a few days your body goes into ketosis and your body is then sparing glucose that it's making through gluconeogenesis for the testicles the red blood cells the adrenals and the brain and it doesn't it says no no muscles don't take up glucose because you can do fine with ketones right the brain can run on some ketones but it needs to have glucose so the body's very very wise at partitioning nutrients in states of quote semi-starvation because evolutionarily it would have been a state of semi-starvation for us if we didn't have any carbohydrates it's certainly happened to us but our goal as humans would have been where can i find honey where can i find fruit where