So read the whole post from Dr. Mike's blog, and subscribe to his updates, and go read all the incredible posts he's contributed over the years, it'll likely be an education in the interplay between fats, protein, ketones and glucose and why your body does so well when you fast from time to time, minimize the carb intake, and get the majority of your nutrition through nature's most perfect fuel - FAT!
It's an incredible tribute to our nation that a farmer's kid could grow up and change the world in a fine style as he did, and does.
If you don't have time to read the whole post, as you should, excerpts follow, and I'll have a summary posted in a couple of days.
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/metabolism-and-ketosis/
"... and functioning. As long as we’ve got plenty of food, the metabolic systems busies itself with allocating it to the right places and storing what’s left over. In a society such as ours, there is usually too much food so the metabolic system has to deal with it in amounts and configurations that it wasn’t really designed to handle, leading to all kinds of problems."
"If you read any medical school biochemistry textbook, you’ll find a section devoted to what happens metabolically during starvation. If you read these sections with a knowing eye, you’ll realize that everything discussed as happening during starvation happens during carbohydrate restriction as well. There have been a few papers published recently showing the same thing: the metabolism of carb restriction = the metabolism of starvation. I would maintain, however, based on my study of the Paleolithic diet, that starvation and carb restriction are simply the polar ends of a continuum, and that carb restriction was the norm for most of our existence as upright walking beings on this planet, making the metabolism of what biochemistry textbook authors call starvation the ‘normal’ metabolism."
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