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This state of nutritional ketosis provides greater access to ketones as both fuel and signaling molecules.
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
With these hormonal changes plus a shift toward ketosis, even though the body is challenged with the same caloric intake and lack of exercise as before starting intermittent fasting, there will be a reduction in body fat.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Aug. 2025
There’s another, less dangerous reason the liver might pump out ketones: ketosis.
—Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 17 July 2025
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
With these hormonal changes plus a shift toward ketosis, even though the body is challenged with the same caloric intake and lack of exercise as before starting intermittent fasting, there will be a reduction in body fat.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Aug. 2025
There’s another, less dangerous reason the liver might pump out ketones: ketosis.
—Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 17 July 2025
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“Ketosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ketosis. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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ketosis
noun
ke·to·sis
kē-ˈtō-səs 
plural ketoses
-ˌsēz
1
: an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the body in conditions of reduced or disturbed carbohydrate metabolism (as in uncontrolled diabetes mellitus) compare acidosis, alkalosis
2
: a nutritional disease of cattle and sometimes sheep, goats, or swine that is marked by reduction of blood sugar and the presence of ketone bodies in the blood, tissues, milk, and urine and is associated with digestive and nervous disturbances
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