Tag: beta-hydroxybutyrate
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CKM – Part 4 – Energy Management
Please read the previous articles on my CKM use for more background. PART I PART II PART III My second Sibio CKM sensor was meant to monitor 2 weeks of heavy endurance exercise. Trying to capture the stress of increased volume and adaptation to it. Unfortunately that testing came to a quick end because the…
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CKM – Part 2 – Sickness
Day 2 and this CKM has already put my mind at work. What I’ll write down below is how I interpret the data, knowing my own history, and using all the scientific literature I’ve read so far. But I have to admit, being sick is a variable I don’t know much of how it influences metabolism.…
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Continuous Ketone Monitoring (CKM) – Part 1
I’m in the possession of a couple of CKM sensors so now it is time to run a number of experiments and also generally see what a CKM can teach me and how useful it is to have one on your arm. This article is a first by which I want to introduce more about…
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Ketones support the failing heart and may help repair it
I noticed that in the past few years there is quite a bit of research coming out investigating the effect of beta-hydroxybutyrate on a failing heart. It seems that a failing heart somehow increases the production of ketones which it then consumes to support its function. As this is picking up attention in the scientific…
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The liver buffer(s)
One of the things I noticed in studying metabolism and the overall functioning of the body, is how important the liver is. A lot of what we do and a lot of what we measure is influenced by the liver and its buffers. Understanding these buffers in conjunction with these measurements may help us a…
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Immune cell modulation by the ketogenic diet
What follows is a list of research that shows how a ketogenic diet can have effect on the immune system. A lot of this research is done in non-human bodies or circumstances so none of it has been proven to be similar in humans. This is very important to know because mice and rats have…
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Rodents on KD
There are quite a number of papers studying ketosis in rodents to measure outcomes. I just thought it would be a neat exercise to make an inventory of these studies and look at their properties such as feeding ad libitum, type of fat in the diet, level of ketosis reached etc.. to see if we…
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Longevity (1)
I am almost finished with the book “Lifespan: Why we age – and why we don’t have to” from David Sinclair. In this book he explains the result of his research in a very readable way, avoiding much of the scientific language so that it is accessible to everybody. While reading the book, I recognized…
