Intermittent metabolic switching, neuroplasticity and brain health

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 19, 63 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.156 Authors: Mark P. Mattson, Keelin Moehl, Nathaniel Ghena, Maggie Schmaedick & Aiwu Cheng During evolution, individuals whose brains and bodies functioned well in a fasted state were successful in acquiring food, enabling their survival and reproduction. With fasting and extended exercise, liver glycogen stores are depleted and ketones are produced from adipose-cell-derived fatty acids. This metabolic switch in
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