Keto breath question - is it correlated with weight loss?

#1

From what I’ve read, it seems that keto breath may be correlated with weight loss since it means your body is still use fat for energy and not ketones. Once you stop “losing” (aka burning) fat, the body uses the ketones directly for energy and your ketone readings (breath/urine) decrease.

Has that been yalls experience? For those that hit their weight loss goals, did your keto breath diminish? For those that don’t keto to lose weight but just to maintain, do you have keto breath?

Thanks!

(Allie) #2

Well I’ve never had trouble losing fat on keto and have never had keto breath, so there doesn’t seem to be any correlation in my case.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #3

[quote=“KetoNerd, post:1, topic:58567”]
keto breath may be correlated with weight loss since it means your body is still use fat for energy and not ketones.
[/quote]I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of energy metabolism. Burning ketones is fat burning metabolism.

Correlation isn’t causation and I don’t think you’ve even really demonstrated a correlation beyond theory here.

(Omar) #4

fat is not energy currency.

ketone is the currency.

and fat is metabolized into ketones.

the body has 2 currencies only.

glucose and ketones (not fat )

work is not currency but dollar is a currency

(Empress of the Unexpected) #5

I’ve had keto breath a handful of times, but have lost the weight anyway.

(Mike Glasbrener) #6

When I first started keto I would have keto breath. I called it metal mouth because it tasted that way to me. I would spin very hard for 30-60 minutes and it would get worse. Now I’ll fast for 2-3 days while spinning every morning and never get keto breath. However, my blood ketone can be quite high…

(Ethan) #7

Not exactly. Fat is metabolized into ketones, but also used as free fatty acids (FFAs) directly by cells when you are fat adapted.

(Ken) #8

Not exactly. Fatty acids make up the majority of the energy source during Lipolysis. Ketones and Glucose are supplemental. The fat molecule breaks into fatty acids and glycerol. Fatty acids are burned and glycerol is the substrate for both Ketone production as well as Glucose via hepatic gluconeogenesis.

That’s why lipolytic nutrition means you’re primarily burning fatty acids from the fat molecule. Ketones are secondary and focusing on them is Nutty Keto Dogma.

(Ken) #9

Really, the body uses only four things for energy.

Fatty Acids
Glucose
Ketones
Alcohol

(Omar) #10

I did not know that fatty acids can be used directly by the cells.

I always was under the impression that human cells can only use ketones and glucose.

thanks