Ketone

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Ketone

Ketone supplements, often referred to as exogenous ketones, are compounds that can elevate the levels of ketones in the body, which are produced naturally during periods of starvation or carbohydrate restriction. They are commonly used to aid in weight loss, improve athletic performance, and enhance cognitive function.

Category
Nutritional supplement
Molecular Formula
Variable
Mechanism of Action
Ketone supplements work by increasing the concentration of ketones in the blood, which the body can use as an alternative source of energy. This can help to induce a state of ketosis, even without a ketogenic diet.
Evidence Grade
C - Fair scientific evidence for this use

Other Names

  • Exogenous ketones
  • Ketone bodies
  • Ketone salts
  • Ketone esters

Primary Benefits

  • Weight loss
  • Enhanced athletic performance
  • Improved cognitive function

Recommended Dosage

Adults Dosage can vary, but commonly used doses range from 10g to 30g per day. Always follow the manufacturer's instructions.

Side Effects

  • Gastrointestinal discomfort
  • Nausea
  • Diarrhea
  • Bad breath

Precautions

  • Not recommended for those with kidney disease
  • Consult your healthcare provider before use if pregnant or nursing
  • May not be suitable for individuals with type 1 diabetes

Interactions

  • May interact with diabetes medications
  • Can affect results of ketone tests

Key References

  • Stubbs, B.J., et al. (2017). On the Metabolism of Exogenous Ketones in Humans. Front. Physiol. 8:848.
  • Evans, M., et al. (2018). Effects of Acute Exogenous Ketones on Endurance Performance and Nutritional Status in Athletes. JISSN. 15:37.
Dr. Eric Verdin on Ketogenic Diet Longevity, Beta-Hydroxybutyrate, HDAC Inhibitors & NAD+
Enhancing Health and Longevity Through Diet, Exercise, and Fasting 22:15 0
“There's one in the PPAR-alpha gene which is important for the whole process of making ketone bodies and that people have that they actually can't do that very well, and so it can be sort of dangerous, and they can have inflammation.”

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Dr. Eric Verdin on Ketogenic Diet Longevity, Beta-Hydroxybutyrate, HDAC Inhibitors & NAD+
Enhancing Health and Longevity Through Diet, Exercise, and Fasting 33:09 0
“NAD has emerged as one of these critical intermediary metabolites. Think of ketone bodies, NAD, all, I call them currencies.”

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Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 50:25 0
“I think, obviously, with fasting, you produce fat, and you produce fatty acids, and glycerol, and ketone bodies.”

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Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 51:57 0
“Well, ketone bodies are more, if you think about the stem cells, and if they need energy to differentiate or self-renew, ketone bodies would actually provide a very energetically favorable source because it takes less oxygen, actually, to convert beta-hydroxybutyrate into Acetyl-CoA, as opposed to glucose into pyruvate.”

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The Intermittent FASTING MISTAKES That Make You GAIN WEIGHT! | Dave Asprey
Optimizing Health Through Fasting: Strategies, Benefits, and Considerations 17:01 0
“so we've got fasting playing this insane role when we're talking about metabolic diseases which depending on who you talk to is everything from cancer heart disease alzheimer's like there must be some common thing that this all has working together so is it insulin people have referred to alzheimer's as type 3 diabetes type 3 of the brain is it just inflammation in general from the ketone bodies like what what is it that is operating across all these different disease manifestations”

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The Hidden Benefits of Fasting | Masterclass
Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 23:26 0
“well nobody knows but it could be that it's setting up the metabolism right it's setting up the metabolism to be enough you know like we were discussing earlier right so if it's affecting the way you burn fat if it's affecting the way your insulin functions Etc et cetera eventually you could be more prone to you know insulin resistance diabetes cardiovascular disease Etc you don't need very much and also the heart right so it could be that the Ketone bodies this continuous high level so when you fast these Ketone bodies this is what the word ketogenesis comes from this break these byproducts of fat are going up in the bloodstream right and and uh and also fatty acids right the fat is themselves and these can can alter the way your heart works and the way your your brain works”

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The Cancer Expert: “This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!”
Cancer Prevention Through Lifestyle Changes and Metabolic Health Strategies 17:32 0
“a solution to the cancer problem to manage cancer without toxicity is to simultaneously restrict the two fuels that are needed to drive this disregulated growth while transitioning the whole body off to a fuel that the tumor cells can't use which is fatty acids and Ketone bodies.”

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The Cancer Expert: “This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!”
Cancer Prevention Through Lifestyle Changes and Metabolic Health Strategies 51:05 0
“Should I be on a keto diet then here's what we did okay uh we developed the glucose Ketone index calculator at Boston College all right my students and I because we were trying to uh work with cancer patients blood sugar and ketones.”

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The Cancer Expert: “This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!”
Cancer Prevention Through Lifestyle Changes and Metabolic Health Strategies 1:04:01 0
“he didn't take radiation or chemo yeah and he brought his glucose Ketone index down to the 2.0 Zone and kept it low and he took some supplements and a few things here and there but he wasn't really targeting the glutamine like we thought it with like we we thought we we found now certain parasite medications will be effective in targeting glutamine so we're doing all non-toxic strategies to manage cancer”

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The Cancer Expert: “This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!”
Cancer Prevention Through Lifestyle Changes and Metabolic Health Strategies 1:05:08 0
“when you are in nutritional ketosis with a glucose keto index of 2.0 or below my colleagues that we work with in Istanbul Turkey were able to show that chemotherapies at much lower dosages can be even more therapeutically powerful when you're in nutritional ketosis”

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The Cancer Expert: “This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!”
Cancer Prevention Through Lifestyle Changes and Metabolic Health Strategies 1:19:09 0
“burn when you burn 79:09 K I said in the brain when your brain 79:11 starts shifting to ketones your energy 79:13 uh the bang for the buck for each 79:15 calorie that comes in from a ketone body 79:17 increases the efficiency of oxidative 79:19 phosphorilation so you more focused 79:22 massively”

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The Cancer Expert: “This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!”
Cancer Prevention Through Lifestyle Changes and Metabolic Health Strategies 1:29:11 0
“Trudy Dupont who originally let me we we built a glucose Ketone index calculator on her”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
Optimal Health Through Balanced Diet: Managing Insulin for Better Outcomes 1:38:26 0
“more and more of the Torrance teams take Ketone supplements because it is just another fuel”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
Optimal Health Through Balanced Diet: Managing Insulin for Better Outcomes 1:39:46 0
“you have the Ketone Ester which often comes in shots”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
Optimal Health Through Balanced Diet: Managing Insulin for Better Outcomes 1:40:07 0
“if you took a shot of bi identical Ketone drink what would go on in my body and how would that impact my cognitive performance or athletic performance”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Improve Vitality, Emotional & Physical Health & Lifespan | Huberman Lab Podcast
Improving Healthspan Through Lifestyle Choices and Preventive Health Measures 6:04 0
“I found that by taking Ketone IQ which we know increases blood ketones I can achieve much better focus for longer periods of time for any kind of cognitive work and much greater energy levels for exercise especially if I'm going into that exercise fasted and find myself a little bit hungry when I start that exercise.”

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The Most Important Daily Habits For Health & Longevity – Dr Rhonda Patrick (4K)
Essential Omega-3 for Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 2:09:50 0
“I try to get a lot of vigorous intensity exercise in so that would be 80% max heart rate and um the reason for that is because I've been pretty convinced that if you are not an athlete doing more than 10 hours a week or 10 or more right of you know endurance training so if you're if you're not that person um I think that it's more beneficial the data suggests it's more beneficial to engage the majority of the time in more vigorous intensity exercise versus what's zone two training right so like a lower intensity or I guess it's more moderate intensity the talk test kind of exercise right where you're breathy but you can still have a conversation which I do like doing those as well particular when I'm having a conversation with someone on a run it's nice I enjoy it but um I do also go harder um I do a lot of high-intensity interval training and um I think that the there's there's evidence for that uh if you are going harder and you're getting that heart rate up to 80% max heart rate you're increasing that lactate and we've talked about…”

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