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How Ketogenic Diets Help Fight Dementia: The Ketone Connection

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How Ketogenic Diets Help Fight Dementia: The Ketone Connection by Vicki Cash RN. We all expect a low-carb diet to help us lose weight, improve blood pressure, blood sugar and our overall sense of well-being. What one might not expect is that changing what we eat could very well spare our brains from the ravages of dementia.

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Ketone Production – Fats, Ketones, and Ketosis

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Ketone production results from the breakdown of body fats. The excretion of the excess ketones in the urine is important because the presence of large amounts of ketone bodies in the blood threatens to upset the acid-alkaline balance of the blood, and thereby, the balance in the tissues. Article 22 of the Science of Low-Carb & Keto Diets series.

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