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Can someone explain understandably what exactly is ketosis?
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Diabetic ketosis: Simply, when insulin fails to burn sugar the body MUST have fuel, so, like coal, it burns fat and incomplete burning leave a residue of ketone -like acetone. Continue production of these poisons is fatal unless controlled.
Answered 3/12/2016
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