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What exactly is ketosis?

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Excess ketones: Metabolic disorder from breakdown of fats.

Answered 10/3/2016

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

BurningFat forEnergy: When we burn fat, body fat or fat from foods, we produce a variety of ketone bodies. While physicians have often associated this state with unusual unhealthy conditions (usual md focus), staying in a chronic states of mild ketosis is quite healthy ;amp; strongly associated with healthy lipoprotein particle concentrations, low rates of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer ; mortality.

Answered 11/9/2014

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