Ravn
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Some of the recent research suggests that ME patients cannot use glucose properly and may therefore use other metabolic pathways to compensate (and I understand some ME folks have concluded low-carb is the way to go).
But things can't be as simple as that? Or a ketogenic diet would be our cure and there doesn't seem to be anybody claiming that, even if some people do say they feel somewhat better on low-carb or keto diet.
So is the ketogenic metabolism also damaged, as well as the glucose one?
And is there then a third, highly inefficient, metabolic pathway that kicks in when neither carbs nor fat can be used properly (I understand protein gets converted to glucose in the body)?
But things can't be as simple as that? Or a ketogenic diet would be our cure and there doesn't seem to be anybody claiming that, even if some people do say they feel somewhat better on low-carb or keto diet.
So is the ketogenic metabolism also damaged, as well as the glucose one?
And is there then a third, highly inefficient, metabolic pathway that kicks in when neither carbs nor fat can be used properly (I understand protein gets converted to glucose in the body)?