>From: Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [P-F] Ketoacidosis
>Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:45:18 -0400
>
>On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, siobhan wrote:
>
>
>The problem here is that this quotation describes ketoacidosis,
>not simple ketosis.  In a non-diabetic, ketosis does not lead to
>ketoacidosis because of a feedback mechanism; i.e., when the
>concentration of ketones gets to a certain level it triggers the
>pancreas to release insulin to store them as fat.  In a diabetic,
>of course, the insulin production mechanism is broken, so you get
>runaway ketosis, which leads to acidosis.  The passage above
>might lead one to believe that starvation (fasting) leads to
>acidosis as well, but it doesn't, since the ketones are hastily
>used as fuel, with the exception of the ones that cannot be so
>used (acetone), which are excreted.  If the starvation is
>accompanied by water deprivation, then there could be a problem
>voiding the unusable acetone ketones while dehydrated.
>
>Todd Moody
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That's why I started to gain fat while being in deep ketosis and this does
not happen when I'm in a borderline ketosis. In many books you can find the
opposite suggestion (the deeper ketosis the more fat you loose).
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