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Everything You Need To Know About Ketones & Ketosis

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Effects of Ketones on Glucose Metabolism

Ketones activate the HEF, which is hypoxic-inducible factor. It's a direct effect onto your DNA so that you can start expressing all the enzymes and hormones related to hypoxia or hypoxic survivability. With ketones, for some reason, it's increasing the amount of oxygen that you're able to carry. That may not directly be attributed to substrate metabolism per se, but it could be due to something around the mitochondrial efficiency.

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