ketosis

The body being in ketosis is primarily medicated by the availability of liver glycogen, temporarily insulin spikes will at worst only pause ketosis.

I have an interesting anecdote related to ketosis: I was in nutritional ketosis for three months to test its effects on my body.

Well a ketogenic diet is used to treat epilepsy, and artificial sweeteners don't generally conflict with ketosis.

Also, you don't want to be frequently transitioning in/out of ketosis; it gives you horrible headaches.

Anecdotally, when I'm on a very-low-carb diet (and in confirmed mild ketosis), mosquitoes seem less interested in me.

The benefits of ketosis may also add longevity, possibly with similar mechanisms to fasting.

It wouldn't be surprising considering how much overlap there seems to be between the benefits of ketosis and calorie restriction in general.

It's likely intermittent fasting put the subjects of the study into mild ketosis.

I thought in ketosis it wasn't energy expenditure, the liver causes fat to break down and pass through your bladder?

Fasting puts you in nutritional ketosis as does ketogenic / very-low-carb dieting.

It helps if you're already in ketosis (on a ketogenic diet), so you don't pay physical switching costs (day 2 and 3 are hardest).

Any diet that keeps your ketones high, ie keeps you in ketosis (assuming you are healthy) is a ketogenic diet by the scientific definition.

Ketosis also "mimics fastings", the main metabolic difference being nutritional ketosis is 0.5 - 3 mmol/L, while fasting is 3 - 5 mmol/L (betahydroxybuterate in the serum).

>Ketosis also "mimics fastings", Can you please provide a source on this?

It's debatable whether this is "bad" for you without inflammation (atherosclerosis relies on both), but I certainly wasn't comfortable with the elevated levels and went out of ketosis.

The key thing to search for is "keto" or "ketogenic," the name for the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that puts you in a fat-burning state called ketosis.

Ketosis can occur as a result of low insulin (in which case blood sugar will be high).

Ketosis is a pretty weird state brought on by lack of carbohydrates.

Ketosis takes at minimum two weeks to adapt to.