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#162 Low Insulin the Key to Everything | Conversation with Influential Health Leader & Metabolic Researcher Dr. Benjamin Bikman

The Gabby Reece Show

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What Is Ketosis?

A ketone is simply the fat that's been burning and then the liver cell says well I can't stop breaking down fat, but I no longer need it for my own energy. The moment ketones hit the bloodstream the brain starts consuming it higher than any other organ in the entire body Without a doubt in my lab has published work on this very topic from human Brain tissue from people who had just died. In Alzheimer's not to shift the topic  I promise i'll keep talking about ketones, but the brain becomes all the more desperate even in migraine.

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