The advantages of ketone bodies within the body are lots.
Not exact matches
By following a ketogenic style
of eating, it is possible to reverse these metabolic defects and take
advantage of the benefits that
ketones have to offer for our brains and
bodies!
But before it can build new fat - burning mitochondria and retrofit the existing ones to take
advantage of all the free fatty acids you have at your disposal, your
body will rely on
ketones for its energy.
There may be a potential metabolic
advantage of the ketogenic diet but it's mostly due to the appetite suppressing effects
of low - carb diets: Expert's Insight: Appetite Control and Caloric Intake on Low - carb Ketogenic Diets It takes a few weeks for your
body to use mainly
ketones and fat - instead
of glucose - for energy.
[1] Ketogenic diet benefits
body composition and well - being but not performance in a pilot case study
of New Zealand endurance athletes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506682 [2] Ketogenic low - carbohydrate diets have no metabolic
advantage over nonketogenic low - carbohydrate diets https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/83/5/1055/4649481 [3] Energy expenditure and
body composition changes after an isocaloric ketogenic diet in overweight and obese men https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/104/2/324/456464 [4]
Ketones block amyloid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26923399 [5]
Ketones Inhibit Mitochondrial Production
of Reactive Oxygen Species Production Following Glutamate Excitotoxicity by Increasing NADH Oxidation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1865572/ [6] The ketogenic diet may have mood - stabilizing properties https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11918434 [7] The antidepressant properties
of the ketogenic diet http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15601609
Ketone bodies are known to have anti-inflammatory properties, and this is yet another
advantage of consuming the combination
of MCTs and KBs.
The physiological ketosis
of starvation makes sound evolutionary sense, as
ketone bodies have several thermodynamic
advantages over other nutritional substrates, in addition to their actions to conserve protein and glucose stores.