Tag: metabolic flexibility
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Fat Fasting: Metabolic Shifting Through Ketone Production and Cellular Renewal
Fat fasting is a short-term dietary intervention where 80-90% of calories derive from fat, inducing ketosis, enhancing autophagy, improving insulin sensitivity, and promoting metabolic flexibility without the extreme deprivation of water fasting.
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The Randle Cycle and Metabolic Inflexibility: When Your Body’s Fuel-Switching System Breaks Down
Explore how disruption of the glucose-fatty acid cycle drives insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease—and discover evidence-based interventions including diet, exercise, and targeted therapies that can restore metabolic flexibility.
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Metabolic Flexibility and the Randle Cycle: Understanding Fuel Switching as the Foundation of Health and Prevention of Metabolic Disease
The maintenance of energy homeostasis in humans depends upon the remarkable capacity of the body to adaptively switch between available fuel sources, a feature defined as metabolic flexibility.