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They told the men their brains would fail.
In the 1960s George Cahill and Oliver Owen put obese subjects in a hospital and fed them nothing for five to six weeks. The orthodoxy was clear: the brain burns roughly 100–120 grams of glucose a day. Without food, protein would be stripped from muscle to make that glucose. After a couple of weeks the subjects should have been fogged, weak, and in trouble.
Instead, after the first week, hunger faded. Mental clarity returned. Energy came back. By day 40 they were sharper than when they started.
Cahill measured what was crossing the blood-brain barrier. Glucose extraction had fallen. Ketones—β-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate made from body fat—had become the brain’s main fuel. Blood glucose sat low. Ketones sat high. The brain switched fuels without missing a beat.
That switch is what lets a person survive months without food. Without it, the constant demand for glucose would have burned through lean tissue far too fast.
Nitrogen losses dropped, protein was spared, and the body ran on fat.
The brain is not locked to sugar. It is a hybrid that prefers ketones once they are available. Cahill showed it sixty years ago in men who were not supposed to stay clear-headed. They did.
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WATCH: President Trump shares a special moment of prayer with Catholic bishops and archbishops inside the Oval Office.
The group gathers around the president as they take part in a moment of faith and reflection at the White House.