Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The brain normally uses glucose as its primary fuel, but is able to use ketone bodies as an alternative fuel during fasting, starvation, or feeding of high-fat, low-carb diets.Ketosis, as a physiological state, has been shown to be neuroprotective since the 1920s.
Author: Yifan Zhang
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Topic: Diet and metabolism studies
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Institutes of Health
OpenAlex ID: W2600519207