I hav no real life experience with exogenous ketones. I have no real life experience with arsenic. Poor comparison? I think not. Arsenic is in our diet, albeit extremely low amounts. But that doesn’t mean adding more to my diet would be beneficial.
Arsenic is proven to be poisonous. It’s a fact. I don’t need to test it on myself to know this. Benefits of exogenous ketones are none existent. If it’s being sold by MLM businesses then that puts up a red flag for me. MLM is a marketing ploy to make money for the guy at the top, ipso facto. A.L. Williams, Amway, there was a diet one as well, Herbalife (?). If it sells, if people can be convinced it’s good, if it can be even weakly linked to some big trend of the moment, MLM will pick it up and run with it. They even have “doctors” to rave about the products (well, guys in white lab coats and glasses).
Here’s the problem with the idea of exogenous ketones. We don’t know what they are doing. You can’t say for a fact that it’s the ketones you are ingesting are what’s giving you that energy boost. It could very well be that it has added caffeine or some other chemical to give that effect. I used to use a fiber supplement. It’s label said “sugar free” and “ safe for diabetics”. Turns out it has maltodextrin in it which has a higher glycemic index than just plain sugar. It was holding up my blood glucose progression. I stopped taking it and had immediate results.
Now to be fair, I’m not saying there are no benefits. I’m saying there is no evidence.
First rule of life, question everything. Especially those in authority, or those that make claims like, carbohydrates are an essential nutrient. Put their feet to the fire. Ask why. What makes this a good product? How does it work? Where are the studies to show? I’m talking scientific method, not a pie chart. [by the way, a moment after I began this reply, I went looking for recent info on exogenous ketones (EK). The only studies I could find were nothing but pie charts, or graphs. Nothing useful. I want to see a study where a few thousand people (not mice, rats, dogs, or pigs) are given EK in a double blind w/ control group study. Science doesn’t work by consensus. Even if all our politicians, or 97% of them anyway, will tell you otherwise.
Sorry, getting verbose. Forcing myself to stop rambling now.
Keto Vitae!