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Episode 198: Dr. Paul Mason
Human Performance Outliers Podcast
The Benefits of a Ketogenic Diet
A deficient protein intake will actually lead to an excess level of ketones. So in my athletes now, I actually discourage them from chasing a very, very high level ofketones because that usually reflects oxaloacetate depletion. And if you have a very low blood sugar level, then your body through gluconeogenesis will actually make more blood sugar to compensate for the lack of oxalo acetate. That means all of these ketones that you're producing, they have trouble entering the Krebs cycle so they accumulate.
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