where do the ketones go when you eat carbs? - PaleoHacks.com

where do the ketones go when you eat carbs?

2012-10-21T16:41:46Z

so you are in ketosis/ketogenesis. you have ketones in your blood when you measure via a meter. then you eat carbs and your meter says LO. where did the ketones go???

Answer by CD for where do the ketones go when you eat carbs?

2012-10-21T17:35:32Z

They are used for energy. Once they are used they are gone into the universe.... Just like every other source of energy.

Answer by Paleolithica for where do the ketones go when you eat carbs?

2012-10-21T18:40:56Z

Great scientific article about ketones and their metabolism: http://coconutketones.com/pdfs/VANITALLIE_NUFERT_ketones_ugly_duckling.pdf

Answer by raydawg for where do the ketones go when you eat carbs?

2012-10-21T19:21:05Z

Simply put, you don't produce them anymore (or at least not in as large amounts.) You only produce ketones in quanity, in the absence of carbs, or more specifically insulin.

Glucose in large amounts is harmful, so your body does everything it can to burn them off as quickly as possible, or store them via insulin. Some will go to muscle, some will go to liver, some will go to your brain the rest will be converted by fat cells into fat. Only alcohol (and fructose) are processed before glucose, which seems to indicate that both need to be removed as quickly as possible. But the difference is we store glycogen for energy, so it's nowhere as harmful as alcohol or fructose.

When your insulin is low, fat cells open up and release free fatty acids. Your liver then produces ketones as the byproduct of fatty acid breakdown. Most of the body, including most of the brain, can use the ketones for energy.

If you eat fat heavy meal, the FFAs from the small intestine post digestion, are sent to the liver for conversion into ketones.

The more carbs (and protein) you consume, the less ketones you produce.