A brief conversational exchange about how quickly the body can return to using fat for fuel after shifting toward glucose metabolism. Speaker B explains the transition can be relatively quick, mentions intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets as methods, notes the change is not binary, and emphasizes hormonal (sex/cycle) differences affecting fasting and carbohydrate timing.
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When you start to become dysfunctional around how you metabolize or how your metabolism works and start to rely more on glucose, how long does it take to get you back into utilizing fat for fuel, which is more efficient?
It can be relatively quick. There's different ways that you can do it. Intermittent fasting is, you know, is one way. Simply by letting that, you know, carbohydrate glucose level drop low, your body naturally then starts to, you know, kind of switch across. But it's not a. It's not a binary thing. Other things that obviously are important are diet and nutrition. So for my sweet swim training, I was on a very low carbohydrate diet, but I would periodically cycle in slightly more carbohydrates into that. I think a really important point that you raise is there is also a big difference between men and women hormonally. I think Dr. Mindy Pelt's, you know, amazing books and work around this around, you know, fasting at specific points in your cycle and other parts of the cycle, you know your best not necessarily to fast. And then what food you introduce is also important. As soon as you put carbohydrates into your body, because we can only tolerate one teaspoon of sugar within our six liters of blood that we have, your body works incredibly hard to get that out of your bloodstream. And your muscles are the main sink, you know, obviously for. For those glucose.
