Is this idea that as long as you're measuring elevated ketones, then you're good, you're a fat burner, your fat adapted, and you should start

seeing weight loss is bogus because you're not in a caloric deficit.

So it is not the ketosis that causes the fat loss

or the fat loss combined with recomposition.

It is the caloric deficit.

The ketones are the results.

The ketones are the results. Hello and welcome to episode one hundred and ninety-eight of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, Danny Lennon, and on today's show, we're going

to be talking with Richard Nicolai of the Free the Animal blog, who reached out to me recently

as we had probably been discussing several topics that had quite a lot of overlap, particularly including some of the

things that were raised within our episode 193 with Loyal McDonald. And for those of you who don't

know, Richard, he has a blog, which at this point has probably thousands and thousands of blog posts,

several hundred thousands of comments probably from readers.

And it's really a place where he's written about a lot, what he has done and learned on

the topics of health and diet and lifestyle amongst other things.

And really, this discussion came around from something that Richard has recently seen is this explosion

in interest in ketogenic diets.

And there's obviously a lot of misinformation and poor information on this topic, something

I think I've mentioned on this show before.

But there's also a lot of good places that have good applications that we can make.

And the problem is that tends to get lost in a lot of the noise because of a lot of the nonsensical

issues.

And so both myself and Richard fully agree that there are some people within the low carb ketogenic

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