The key difference here that a lot of people don't really understand is that, yes, when you go on a ketogenic diet, you're a better fat burner, but there's a cost to that.

You are not as good at oxidizing carbs.

So fat oxidation goes up by two or threefold, but carb oxidation goes down by the same fold, two to threefold.

At the very maximum acutely, have we ever seen someone

be able to oxidize fat is two grams per minute. And this doesn't, you can't do that for hours.

Two grams per minute times nine calories per gram. That means you can, if you're fully fat

oxidizing, you can only produce 18 calories per minute. When you are pushing, sprinting, et cetera, you can easily hit 30 calories per minute.

That shows you that you can only derive half of that energy from fat.

You have to derive the other half of that energy from glucose.

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