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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by toomuchtodo on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:14PM (#8765019)
Whoops! You're right. I had thought I read somewhere the brain requires another organ to convert ketone bodies to glucose, but it appears its the liver itself at cannot use ketone bodies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies#Uses_in_the_heart...

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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by kyllo on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @08:30PM (#8765566)
Yeah, the liver has a separate metabolic pathway for converting non-carbohydrate organic compounds into glucose at a steady rate to regulate blood sugar and provide energy to the brain, it's called gluconeogenesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
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