i’m interested in Exogenous Ketones and their use while still eating carbs.
How does this work exactly, like can I eat carbs and still stay in ketosis 24 hours a day 7 days a week just by having Exogenous Ketones such as KetoCaNa or similar?
What happens to the carbs your eating if your using Exogenous Ketones to use ketosis as your energy source? I can’t picture how your body would deal with carbs day in day out in this situation where your having Exogenous Ketones every day to stay in ketosis.
I’m not looking for an easy fix, I just want to learn more about the relationship of the above and really deeply understand its benefits and limitations.
What’s your goal? Weight loss? If so, then I would think that just the eating of carbs would be enough to spike your insulin regardless, which I assume would make those ketone bodies kind of pointless. The way I understand it, the insulin response is what cuts you off from fat-burning and instead causes your body to store it, which is the whole thing you’re trying to avoid. I don’t think simply drinking exogenous ketones will tell your body, “hey, cut it out with that insulin stuff.”
I’m no expert, but I would think that having an extra fuel available isn’t much of a benefit if you already have carbs present. The whole idea of nutritional ketosis is to switch your body from using carbs for fuel, and instead burning fat and creating ketones. Maybe someone else more knowledgeable can chime in on this, but I don’t think the purpose of these exogenous ketones is to stop insulin response dead in its tracks.
As so many others keep saying, being “in ketosis” isn’t the goal. The goal is “fat adaptation”.
Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me outside of some very specific treatment use.
Having ketones in the system and being ketosis are two different things. The later being a metabolic state in which you are using fat/fat stores to make the ketones.
Even in ketosis you are still making glucose, just at a lower more regulated level. Your body never uses 100% ketones, nor 100% glucose.
Having a preferred source of energy (assuming that it is the type your body can use because there alpha and beta exo keytones we can only use one of the two) would lead me to conclude that you would now have even more glucose floating around in the blood not being used. Sounds like a good way to add weight and keep your insulin even higher, more energy into a system that does not need means it has to go somewhere.
Also I think that you could mess up your hormone signalling, I am no endocrinologist but its seems to me that it would not be good.
I read a study about the potential for using exogenous keystones in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Aside from that I don’t know of any potential benefits.
Ketosis is your body creating ketones not just having ketones in your blood. Ketones are an alternate energy source your body makes to replace the glucose. They are the product of a process that helps burn body fat not the souce of the burn. The source is fat that you can’t acess because carbs keep your insulin up causing your body to store fat rather than burn it.
Google dominic d’agostino and watch some of his videos. He has been involved in the development of exogenous ketones, but pursued them as a way of reducing unpredictable seizures in Navy Seals using oxygen rebreather systems while diving. There are plenty of people out there playing with them, but there’s no consistent evidence that they promote weight loss or that eating carbs and taking exogenous ketones is healthy for the human body. I have read of some competitive athletes who live the ketogenic lifestyle AND periodically consume exogenous ketones as a way to improve athletic performance. Most of us who embrace the ketogenic lifestyle want the longterm benefits that significant carbohydrate reduction brings. Whether or not exogenous ketones might aid in momentary fat burning, they aren’t going to change the fact that eating carbs is the primary cause of insulin resistance, Type II diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and a host of digestive, autoimmune and metabolic disorders.
