You know, Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast. Today we have Dr. Richard Veach, who is a National

Institute of Health Scientist for over 45 years. He is both a research, biochemist, PhD, and a medical doctor.

And basically, Dr. Veach invented a way to bottle ketone fuel in a fat-free, salt-free, FDA-approved

concentrated food. And we're going to be talking to him a little bit about that today,

and also about all of his research on ketosis.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

So I wanted to, for our listeners who, most of which know what ketosis is, can you go

ahead and give us a little snapshot of explaining ketosis, what ketones are, and how they're

used by the body. Well, ketosis, what ketones are, and how they're used by the body?

Well, ketosis is a natural state that humans enter into when they're fasting.

So it allowed them to go hunt mammoths and things and still keep their brain alive.

So the human is the only animal that gets ketosis. And he does this because he has

such a huge brain. So you can live, as your normal weight, you can live for about 75 days without

eating anything. And you do that by turning your fat tissue into ketone bodies, which are excellent

fuel. So there's nothing harmful about it.

Doctors tend to be frightened of ketosis because there is a certain medical condition

that you get in type 1 diabetes called diabetic ketoacidosis.

But that isn't anything to do with physiologic ketosis. Ketosis is just elevation

of normal ketone bodies, which are betaideoxy butyrate and acetoacetate, and they go up in starvation

to about 5 to 7 million. And this was worked done by George Cahill in the 60.

Yeah, what, tell us what makes ketones different than glucose.

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