On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> That should do it. Probably. But you can't avoid carbohydrate because your
> body (brain) needs them, at least some 500kcal per day.

That is prior to adaptation to ketones, which takes a day or so.
After that, the brain uses only about half as much (some
estimates say even less).  500 kcal means about 125g of glucose.
When you eat less than that, *two* processes start, one is
gluconeogenesis; the other is production of ketones.

> Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex consists of very large *genase enzymes ,
> I won't bother with those who find it to technical (for those who do care:
> http://aci.mta.ca/Courses/Biology/BioWeb/2001pyruvatedehydro.html ).
> But it contains TPP, an active form of vitamin B1 you can easily become
> short of.
>
> So I only eat paleolithic (or megalithic) carbohydrates,
> which contain lots of the stuff.

What if the problem is not the absence of TPP but some other
factor that interferes with its proper utilization?

Just speculating...

Todd Moody
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