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Old Wed, Aug-15-18, 17:32
dcc0455 dcc0455 is offline
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Default Ketone Confusion

I just watched a video with Glen Finkel & Dr. Eric Westman titled Burning Carbs vs. Burning Ketones. While I am not new to keto, and have read and watched a lot of info on low carb and keto, I don't think I have ever seen the issue of ketosis addressed to my satisfaction. For example, one of the questions in the video was regarding people who start eating low carb and may take several months to start producing ketones. Dr. Westman responded by talking about being fat adapted, but did not really answer the question about not producing ketones for those 2 months. That scenario does not seem very likely to me. I can see where a person eating low carb and not meet the definition of ketosis, i.e. >0.5mmol/l blood ketones, but if they have been eating low carb for 3 months, without the glucose to run on, they must have been producing ketones to keep going. Another example, as I have mentioned before, is my initial weight loss was eating around 80g (estimated) carbs per day, so I doubt I was in ketosis, but I did lose 60 lbs. I would imagine that 60lbs of fat had to be converted to ketones. Anyway, I would like to see some better explanations of what is actually happening rather than simplifying it down to carbs vs ketones, or am I just missing something.
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