Paul Saladino· MD
if you look at the branch chain amino acids like Lucy I still lose abandoning you look at the these branched chain amino acids that are very very important for building muscle those are not depleted on a ketogenic diet carbohydrate and KJ diet be almost the exact same the amino acid that gets depleted is one known as alanine an alanine is very gluco genic it's a glue code genic amino acids really the main thing that it does is it's it's meant to provide luke go through that glue code gen ik process and convert over so we saw the alanine was depleted but the branch chain amino acids weren't indicating that it's likely not a stressful situation at all it's one that your body just naturally does and alanines there to do it