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  • hellofriend@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Oh okay, thank you for the clarification. I wasn’t aware of that. So I guess while you’re sleeping, as long as you haven’t eaten recently before falling asleep, then you’ll enter ketosis, right?

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      5 months ago

      Ignoring glucogen reserves in muscles, the body doesn’t really have a way to store glucose, which is the energy you get from eating carbohydrates.

      So all of the glucose except for like 5 g in the blood, get stored as fat. You burn through that 5 g in your blood depending on your metabolic rate and activities in a few hours. This is why a lot of people who are eating carb heavy diets get hungry every few hours, The hangry advertising campaign. They’re just running out of glucose.

      Anyway, unless you’re waking up every few hours at night to snack, your body has to enter ketosis to provide energy while you sleep.

      The liver does have the ability to make glucose from fat, called gluconeogenesis, but it would still be burning fat to do that.