Let's talk about the relationship between ketones and your hormones.

How do ketones actually affect your hormones?

Well, let's take a look at the number one hormone first that's involved with ketones.

Insulin.

What controls the production of ketones is when insulin is lowered.

When insulin is too high, you cannot get into ketosis.

Your body is forced to run on glucose, and if you don't have any, it'll tap into glucose

from your stored sugar as glycogen, or it'll start making sugar as this term called gluconeo

genesis.

And it could make it even from muscle protein.

So what triggers insulin is mainly the carbohydrates and frequency of eating.

So when you go to low carb diet and you lower insulin, you have all these ketones.

It's very, very, very therapeutic for your body in many ways.

Also when you go on a low carb diet and you run your body in ketones and you lower insulin,

you're giving the pancreas a chance to breathe and relax and recover.

Now there's this opposing hormone in the pancreas, there's actually two different hormones.

One is insulin, one is a glucogon, this is different than glycogen.

Glucogon is a hormone that helps mobilize and burn fat.

It's stimulated by a moderate amount of protein or intense exercise or the reduction of carbs

as well as the reduction of insulin.

So they kind of work back and forth.

All right, next one is something called IGF.

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