Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

Unraveling the Mysteries of Type 3 Diabetes

11 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Spoken excerpt from a YouTube video (Ben Greenfield) describing brain metabolic responses after an intervention/event: glucose metabolism decreases within about seven days, accompanied by a large increase in lactate (reported ~60%+), suggesting a shift toward lactate-based metabolism. The speaker characterizes "type 3 diabetes" as brain insulin resistance impairing glucose uptake/utilization and emphasizes ketones as a preferred/"superfuel" for the brain with anti-inflammatory properties.

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Seven days after ("seven days after").

Up to about 60+ percent ("like 60 plus percent").

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And then weeks to months after, in fact, seven days after, they saw a decrease in glucose metabolism, because you can only ram something up so far up before it goes back down, because that's what the body does. So when glucose goes back down seven days, they saw a huge increase in lactate, up to like 60 plus percent. Metabolism being relying on lactate, showing that there is still an increase in energy. Why they call it type 3 diabetes is because there's some form of insulin resistance where the brain is not being able to uptake and utilize glucose as efficiently as a normal human being. First and foremost, ketones are brain's superfuel. Like it's a brain's preferred fuel. So it's coming in from different shuttles, different channels. Secondly, we're looking at the anti inflammatory properties of ketones as well as.