Andrew Huberman· PhD
showing that during the course of a healthy, deep night's sleep, our body actually transitions through various forms of metabolic function. We actually experience ketosis-like states. We experience glucogenesis.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
showing that during the course of a healthy, deep night's sleep, our body actually transitions through various forms of metabolic function. We actually experience ketosis-like states. We experience glucogenesis.
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there's at least one paper that I'm aware of where they had people breathing into a tube during sleep to measure what sorts of um met metabolism they were undergoing and it's interesting during a full night's sleep um all of us seem to transition between um different forms of metabolism... at one portion of the night where met we're rely more on let's just call it sugars for the sake of Simplicity other times we're more Ketone dominant there's a a market shifts in metabolism throughout the night