Ward Nicholson wrote:
>
> >Don't even bother telling your doctor you're in ketosis and he'll never
> >know it.  Even if you get a complete physical it's totally unlikely to show
> >up.  If you want to be amusing, wait until after the exam is over and then
> >tell him you're in ketosis--but the question I would ask is, why bother?
> >There really won't be any way for him to tell, nor would it be likely to
> >affect anything in the exam.
>
> My girlfriend has been working with trying to stay on the Protein Power
> diet. Sometimes she does better than others. Sometimes when she eats
> Protein-Power-style, her breath gets pretty bad. That might be one way a
> doctor could tell.
>
> She says it's because when on the Protein Power diet she doesn't get hungry
> so often, and when she is not eating as much her breath gets bad. I am not
> sure how much of the bad breath is due to possible ketosis, and/or if it is
> due more to not eating a whole lot (and the body consequently burning
> stored fat or protein), or if it is due to the Protein Power diet causing
> something similar metabolically.
>
> Does anybody know what the possible causes of bad breath are? I don't
> believe it's all strictly bacteria in the mouth or lungs. Because I know
> when I have gone on long fasts before, the breath gets very bad (it does
> for virtually everybody who fasts) once the body exhausts its stored
> glycogen reserves--these will last through about day two of a water fast
> before you starting burning stored nutritional reserves. I am not familiar
> enough with ketosis to remember what the metabolism of it is, just know it
> can occur when the body switches its primary fuel over to something else
> once the glycogen/glucose supply gets low, and that's when your breath gets
> bad even if you never had any problems before.
>
> --Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>Your ideas about not eating causing bad breath is probably the best idea
yet, but have your girlfriend get a good teeth cleaning at the dentist
just to rule out bad breath from bad teeth.