It also increases mobilisation of glucose, free fatty acids and ketone bodies, which are metabolites produced in excess in diabetes mellitus.
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At hypothermia the metabolic needs of the kidney are much reduced but measurable consumption of glucose, fatty acids and ketone bodies occurs.
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This enzyme participates in 3 metabolic pathways : synthesis and degradation of ketone bodies, valine, leucine and isoleucine degradation, and butanoate metabolism.
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Thus, the production of ketone bodies cuts the brain's glucose requirement from 80 g per day to about 30 g per day.
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Perhaps the most controversial approah is the use of a diet that forces the body to metabolize fats, producing substances called ketone bodies.
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Because tumor cells are inefficient in processing ketone bodies for energy, the ketogenic diet has also been suggested as a treatment for cancer,
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Production of ketone bodies is a normal response to a shortage of glucose, meant to provide an alternate source of fuel from fatty acids.
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This induced ketosis is sometimes called nutritional ketosis, but the level of ketone body concentrations are on the order of whereas the pathological ketoacidosis is.
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After the diet has been changed to lower blood glucose utilization for 3 days, the brain gets 25 % of its energy from ketone bodies.
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The resulting very high levels of ketone bodies lower the pH of the blood plasma which reflexively triggers the kidneys to excrete a very acid urine.
