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Old Mon, Jun-04-18, 16:15
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I think the origin of the phrase goes back to the discovery of ketones appearing on a fast or a low carbohydrate/ketogenic diet. They used to call these "ashes," a residue that couldn't be burned without the presence of carbohydrate. A problem with this idea is that most of the ketones we produce when starved of glucose are ultimately burned for energy elsewhere in the body.
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