Tue, Aug-08-17, 13:01
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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The word ketone is used several ways. Wikipedia;
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Ketones are pervasive in nature. The formation of organic compounds in photosynthesis occurs via the ketone ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate. Many sugars are ketones, known collectively as ketoses. The best known ketose is fructose, which exists as a cyclic hemiketal, which masks the ketone functional group. [20]
In medicine, acetone, acetoacetate, and beta-hydroxybutyrate are collectively called ketone bodies, generated from carbohydrates, fatty acids, and amino acids in most vertebrates, including humans.
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Raspberry ketones may be ketones in a chemical sense, but they aren't the sorts of ketones you're looking for on a ketogenic diet. You can see here that even sugars are technically "ketones," but obviously you're not going to supplement with fructose.
As it says there, "ketone" is also a medical term. Whether ketone salts will be helpful--I wouldn't waste money on them unless I had lots to spare. For weight loss purposes, more effort has gone into marketing than into research to see whether or not they will be helpful, there are pretty reasonable arguments that it could go either way. But if you do experiment, ketone salts or esters are at least the right sort to experiment with.
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