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261: How to Prevent Insulin Resistance and Reverse Chronic Disease | Benjamin Bikman, PhD

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Ketones Are a Product of Fat Burning

When insulin is low, the body starts emitting energetic caloric molecules from the body in the form of ketones. Ketones are simply pieces of fat burning. We start breathing these ketones out into the atmosphere. We are urinating them out into the toilet. These are every one of these ketones has a caloric value that either needed to be burned or stored based on the traditional view. But now we've introduced this third avenue, which is just wasting.

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