Thanks RRM for the detailed response!

Because of your vast knowledge, you are without the shadow of a doubt the guy to turn on when someone needs a clarification about biochemistry!

Is all your knowledge a result of reading biochemistry text books or from other places also?

This study shows that fructose can be converted to glucose in children (fig. 6).
http://www.pnas.org/content/87/14/5449.full.pdf

I remember time back when RRM wrote about fructose conversion to glucose, but can´t find it. I would like to know if I am correct when stating that fructose can be converted to glucose by the liver with the objective of raising blood sugar levels, and not necessarily enter the lipogenic route. This ...

I'm wondering if you are looking for answers or just trolling for an argument. This is becoming a waste of time for the people responding to you. True. B-Rad is just trolling for an argument. With responses like this one he is showing that he only wants to waste our time: I said: ¨I also posted oth...

B-Rad wrote: So you found studies showing people consuming fructose then having a meal with less calories in an attempt to prove eating fructose causes a decreased caloric intake overall? Nice job broski. It´s a joke, right? If according to YOU fructose knocks out satiety hormones, please explain ho...

Luckily all the links work!

So no need for cutting and pasting.

It seems that people who talk about fructose being bad don´t bother to check more info. To view the following links you have to copy and paste the whole text, line by line, to your URL browser. Take this study for example. ¨We conclude that short-term replacement of other carbohydrate sources in the...

Thanks RRM! :D You wrote: But when you are inactive, in general the body very effectively transforms hepatic glycogen into blood glucose, so that there is no increase in muscle turnover. Once the liver-glycogen is gone, and the blood sugar inadequatley replenished through consuming food, much of you...

RRM wrote: It cannot be reconverted into glucose. It can and will only be used as energy for the muscles. So that only liver-glycogen is spare glucose when it comes to keeping the blood glucose level at the right level. So muscle protein will be used only as an energy source for the muscles, but th...

Hi RRM, I have a question about basic metabolism. Suppose that your liver depots are full of glycogen, and after some time blood sugar levels start to decrease. Hepatic glycogen will be broken down to stabilize blood sugar levels, right? But what happens with muscle protein? It will only be broken d...

Particularly on this diet you consume way more water than required. That´s exactly my point. I didn´t mean that just eating more fat per se increases protein tolerance. I mean that by eating more fat you are ingesting much less water. If excess water isn´t there, hydrophillic molecules don´t have n...

Thanks for your replies RRM :D I have been trying a different version of the diet for some days, more or less like a fatty/protein version. I am eating much more RAF and fats and very little fruit/juices. As a consequence I am ingesting much less fluids. What happened? I don´t retain water, at all. ...

However, it takes time before the required amino acids are actually taken up, so that in the meantime the skin will not retain less water, and a brief moment of water retention may already lead to water retention. But if raw fish is consumed before and after a weight training session, wouldn´t that...

sungvimil, I don't think it is allowed? Thanks! I find raw brain tasty; I really enjoy it. I was afraid I was going to be the only person to actually gain weight while in ketosis. Many have put on weight - me included - while being keto adapted (ketonemia, not ketonuria) by eating an all-meat diet....

I don´t know if raw brain is accepted on this diet, but its ratio CHOLESTEROL/PROTEIN is 3.5 times higher than raw egg yolks!!

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20tp.html

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c201p.html