Well, I could easily be wrong, I'm not a biochemist, but as I understand it, if you keep your fats high, you retain a fat-burning metabolism, as indicated by the presence of ketones. If you keep your fats low, you don't. In the absence of sufficient fat, and the presence of ample carbs, your body will preferentially burn carbs. In the absence of sufficient fat, and the presence of ample protein, your body will break down some of that protein and metabolyze it as carbohydrate. This has been my experience. When my fats go too low relative to my protein, I drop out of ketosis, and my cravings for carbohydrates returns - to me, always an indication that I have stimulated an insulin response.
How low is too low? Well, for me, I need about equal grams of protein and fat or I drop out of ketosis when I'm on my low-carb days. So if I were to consume 200g protein with 200g fat, this would be 2600 calories - WAY too much for me on a day to day basis, especially since I rely on my low carb days as low-calorie days on my carb cycle.
On about 120-140g protein, I'm well nourished, and my cals are under 2000 for the day. No loss of muscle mass so far.
I first started to notice that this happens to me if I have a low-carb, fat free whey shake post lifting. I've actually had to stop this because the whey, a fast protein, with no fat to slow it down, was glycolyzing. (many women cannot take in post-lifting carbs without fat spillover. I'm one of them.) I do real food post-lifting now - cottage cheese with avocado, for example. Protein and fat.
On a high protein diet, without sufficient fat to "protect" it from glycolyzing, you WILL glycolyze some of it. How much is anybody's guess. But I find the same carb cravings returning when I have tried this.
I don't eat a LOW protein diet. But I don't try for 1.5g/pound bodyweight like I used to because it was making me fatter. When I dropped it down to 0.9-1.0g/pound bodyweight, I was fine.
I hadn't known about this until recently when I went to the ckd website. It was the first time I ever heard bodybuilders being advised to LOWER their protein intake.
And I put on and retain muscle mass quite well this way.