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So you're already insulin resistant, you are overweight.

What's happening within your body is that your cells are so full.

They are so full of substrates and fuel that it can't take no more.

Going on a keto diet is a great option because it also regulates your hunger hormones

so that you are full easily from the fats and proteins rather than letting the glucose really run your hunger hormones so that you are full easily from the fats and proteins rather than letting

the glucose really run your hunger hormones and let you feel hungry all the time. And then you'll

start seeing weight loss because your body is starting to self-regulate and start burning all the sugar

as well as the fat. BHB is usually the main form of ketone that is being transported around the body because

it's the most stable and it is also the form of ketones that is being used for energy. I literally

say I don't care how you get into ketosis as long as you get there and stay consistent. If you

can get there via the diet, great. If you can get there via fasting, great. And if you don't want to have

the diet and fast and you want to do exogenous ketones, sure, great. Go back to what your goals are.

Use it as a tool. Use it as your best friend to help you reach the dreams that you never thought

of reaching.

Ladd, I want to start out really general here, talking about what ketones are and why they're

important for human metabolism.

Sure.

Let's jump straight into ketone 101.

You know, this term has been thrown around for a bit and a lot of people thought it's a new

molecule or a new pharmaceutical. It is not. It is actually a molecule that it has been around

for as long as organisms, early organisms that can metabolize fat. So it is a very ancient molecule, if you would, that we as humans and

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