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"FOB" wrote:
Those are symptoms, not the item detected by the strips.
These are not sypmtoms, they are causes. Ketones are probably the
natural fuel for the brain, as our 2 million year old bodies have only
had access to substantial grain, a part from seasonal fruit, for the
last 10,000 years.
"When glycogen stores are not available in the cells, fat (triacylglycerol)
is cleaved to give 3 fatty acid chains and 1 glycerol molecule in a process
called lipolysis. Most of the body is able to utilize fatty acids as an
alternative source of energy in a process called beta-oxidation. One of the
products of beta-oxidation is acetyl-CoA, which can be further used in the
Krebs cycle. During prolonged fasting or starvation, acetyl-CoA in the liver
is used to produce ketone bodies instead, leading to a state of ketosis.
During starvation or a long physical training session, the body starts
utilizing fatty acids instead of glucose. The brain cannot use fatty acids
for energy because the fatty acids cannot cross the blood-brain barrier.
However, the ketone bodies produced in the liver can cross the blood-brain
barrier. In the brain, these ketone bodies are then incorporated into
acetyl-CoA and used in the Krebs cycle."
Billy wrote:
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| http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003585.htm
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| What Abnormal Results Mean
| A positive test may indicate:
| € Abnormal nutritional conditions
| € Anorexia
| € Fasting
| € High protein or low carbohydrate diets
| € Starvation
| € Disorders of increased metabolism
| € Acute or severe illness
| € Burns
| € Fever
| € Hyperthyroidism
| € Nursing a baby (lactation)
| € Postsurgical condition
| € Pregnancy
| € Metabolic abnormalities, including uncontrolled diabetes or
| glycogen storage disease
| € Vomiting frequently over a long period of time
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- Billy
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