Ketones

cathyeray
cathyeray Posts: 5 Member
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Has anyone tried the drinkable Ketones that are supposed to get you into ketosis?

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  • Sinisterbarbie1
    Sinisterbarbie1 Posts: 711 Member
    This sounds like the worst idea ever, (Or at least this week!) but great if you are looking for electrolyte imbalance and kidney disease. It sounds like something marketed to people who are looking for a magic pill. I don’t subscribe to weight loss by cutting out particular food groups but my understanding is that the idea behind weight loss achieved through ketosis is that you avoid carbs (which your body would burn first) in order to get into ketosis and thus force your body to burn stored fats, but if instead of avoiding carbs to get into ketosis you are “putting yourself into ketosis” by adding exogenous ketones to your body it sounds like your body is just imbalanced and still has the carbs you are putting into it to burn, so it is not burning the fat you supposedly are trying to burn via ketosis. My guess is you may lose a bit of weight initially due to dehydration and water shifts etc. that go along with it, or maybe the diarrhea it is likely to give you …. but you can’t be burning fat.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    Without changing your eating habit, exogenous ketones will not put your body into ketosis. You can drink the ketones and all it will do is provide more energy (calories) for your body to burn.

    There is a belief in the keto community that there are different degrees of ketosis and that drinking the exogenous ketones will get you into a 'deeper' state of ketosis... however, as far as I can find an info on it, being in ketosis is like being pregnant - you are either in ketosis or you are not. There are no 'levels' of ketosis.

    It would not matter how much of the liquid ketones you drink, as long as you are still eating carbs above a certain level, you will NOT be in ketosis.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Without changing your eating habit, exogenous ketones will not put your body into ketosis. You can drink the ketones and all it will do is provide more energy (calories) for your body to burn.

    There is a belief in the keto community that there are different degrees of ketosis and that drinking the exogenous ketones will get you into a 'deeper' state of ketosis... however, as far as I can find an info on it, being in ketosis is like being pregnant - you are either in ketosis or you are not. There are no 'levels' of ketosis.

    It would not matter how much of the liquid ketones you drink, as long as you are still eating carbs above a certain level, you will NOT be in ketosis.

    Lol...this is pretty much exactly what I was going to say.

    OP...drinkable ketones are a pure marketing gimmick preying on a diet trend and the almost religious like fanaticism of the trend.

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