Amino acids in skeletal muscle: Are protein supplements as good as advertised?
When protein-rich foods, like meat, are ingested they are first broken down into peptides through digestion. As digestion co…
ketosis
Do you lose muscle if you lift weights after a 24-hour fast? Probably not if you do that regularly
Compensatory adaptation (CA) is an idea that is useful in the understanding of how the body reacts to inputs like dietary i…
Ketones and Ketosis: Physiological and pathological forms
Ketones are compounds that have a specific chemical structure. The figure below (from: Wikipedia) shows the chemical structu…
Ketosis, methylglyoxal, and accelerated aging: Probably more fiction than fact
This is a follow up on this post . Just to recap, an interesting hypothesis has been around for quite some time about a poss…
Ketosis, methylglyoxal, and accelerated aging: Fact or fiction?
Ketosis is a state typically associated with very low carbohydrate diets, such as the Atkins diet. In this state, the liver …
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