Rhonda Patrick· PhD
And neurons run on lactate as the preferred fuel.
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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.
And neurons run on lactate as the preferred fuel.
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Lactate then shuttled into neurons, and the reason why neurons like that is because it's thermodynamically favorable, much like beta-hydroxybutyrate which you mentioned, BHB, because it can shunt right into the TCA cycle in the mitochondria...