Health by Stephen

Ketosis. Ketosis. Ketosis. There seems to be a lot of concern about knowing numbers when going keto, and I'm not quite sure that matters a whole lot to the average weight loser who just wants to look better naked (persons with medical reasons have a bit more reason to track ketones and are exempt from this post). The famous Ketosis Curve, as produced by Volek & Phinney I see a lot (and I mean a LOT ) of people always concerned with ketosis. "Is protein too high?" "Will food X knock me out of ketosis?" "Get your daily ladle full of coconut and MCT to put you back into ketosis!" "If you're not losing fat, keto harder!" All moot, if you ask me . Here's my rationale. 1. You don't need ketones to lose weight. As I stated earlier , ketones may be a sign that you're losing weight, but you can lose weight with and  without ketones being present. If your goal is weight loss/body recomposition, you're bett...

I just have to get something off of my chest and progress in my grief within the Ketosphere: ↑  Ketones  ≠ fat loss Not with ketone supplements, not with coconut oil, not ever (well, kind of)!  Let me explain. [End rant] In short, ketone bodies are a byproduct of fatty acid metabolism and are produced mainly in the liver. When the body begins to break down fatty acids (most notably during low-carb diets and fasting, but this can also happen during normal weight loss and exercise ,  just not to the same degree). https://www.diapedia.org/metabolism-insulin-and-other-hormones/51040851169/ketone-body-metabolism Ketone bodies will pretty much be produced when there is an overabundance of Acetyl-CoA  [due to the breakdown, known as oxidation, of fatty acids] in the body, creating long chains of the molecule. These long chains are then able to be converted into one of the three types of ketone bodies; acetate, acetoacetate, and beta-hydrox...