{"id":1962,"date":"2004-02-27T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2004\/02\/27\/you-say-ketosis-i-say-umm-ketosis\/"},"modified":"2004-02-27T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T18:40:50","slug":"you-say-ketosis-i-say-umm-ketosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2004\/02\/27\/you-say-ketosis-i-say-umm-ketosis\/","title":{"rendered":"You say Ketosis… I say… umm… Ketosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good friend of mine read my recent post about my diet<\/a> and rightly contacted me with some information. I had not expressed myself well I think, and she was making sure I had the right info in case I had missed it. In face I had read the information and taken it into account, but lets touch on it here for a moment.<\/p>\n

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When you’re body runs out of glucose it obviously turns to stored fat and protein to provide for it’s energy needs, breaking these down to product ketones and supplying them to your essential organs and systems to replace their primary glucose fuel. In short, ketosis is the mechanism your body uses to reclaim the energy stored as fat. It is natural, and it happens often to us to varying degrees in relation to [[wp:lipolysis]].<\/p>\n

The intended result of the [[wp:Atkins]] diet is [[wp:ketosis]]. As often used in dietary discussions the word ketosis is simply the state of your metabolism using  [[wp:ketones]] as the primary<\/b><\/i> energy transport mechanism instead of [[wp:glucose]]. Such diets are known as [[wp:ketogenic]]. The word ketosis is also the technical term for the production of ketones in any quantity. This is part of the problem, the word is often misused. <\/p>\n

In effect I want to make use of the <\/i>process<\/i><\/b> of ketosis without invoking the <\/i>state<\/i><\/b> of ketosis. The state of ketosis is, again, a state where my metabolism must use ketones to power my primary and essential organs and systems for survival. This is a typical “famine” state.<\/i><\/p>\n

Obviously all fat loss is the result of ketone production<\/i>. Clearly anyone needing to lose weight must induce ketosis as a process <\/b><\/i>to some degree or another. That is not the issue. The issue is how much ketone production is it correct to rely on, and what are the detrimental effects of existing almost exclusively in a state of deep ketosis.<\/p>\n

Atkins folks are sometimes encouraged to use urinary test strips to look for the pretence of excess ketones and ketone fragments to ensure that they are in a fairly heavy ketosis. Heavy and deep in this entry mean production so extensive that excess fragments are excreted in the urine.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the health effects of prolonged deep ketosis are not widely understood and have not been studied in a way I find conclusive. We must each make out own judgments on it… but the fact is that ketosis is a emergency mechanism your body evolved to handle situations where your diet was lacking in the correct intake of glucose. It is not, in my mind, a healthy state of being for constant and prolonged existence.<\/p>\n

My primary concerns about being in a constant state of deep ketosis center around three factors:<\/p>\n