I feel like the journalist is spinning this as testing a quasi-illegal substance. And yet, they clear themselves at the end by stating " WADA had ‘no reason to consider such substances as banned under the 2011 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods’.""

So ketones aren't banned. Is this a bunch of made-up hype over some athletes getting paid some extra money to test a sports drink?

Athletes are asked to participate in biomedical research studies all the time. Nothing new there and it's not a secret. I sometimes request high performance athletes as a "super-fit control group" in certain physiological studies.

But yeah, there's going to be a whole bunch of idiots who think that ketones are a banned substance now.

What is the moral difference between consuming a sugar sports drink and a ketone sports drink? (I just don't like the over-sensational spin on this one.)