Originally Posted by
lenA
"When I previously thought about ketones, my mind went to ketoacidosis and uncontrolled diabetes. How about ketones in the urine? Diabetes would have been the correct answer if we were taking a test. So, I was basically conditioned to think of ketones as being mostly bad.
Health care practitioners are not typically trained to embrace ketosis as a desirable state; we are trained to the think of the extreme – the extreme case. We got this in biochemistry classes and the clinical classes back in the 1980s, and this continues today. This view of ketones needs to change."
-David Seaman, DC, MS, DABCN
Ketones are great to have flowing in your blood, in fact it is the only fuel your brain functions on.