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Welcome everyone, Dr. Mercola, helping to take control of your health.

And today we're going to talk about exogenous ketones.

In other words, keytones that your body doesn't make and is made by something you take externally to.

And we're going to be discussing that with Frank who actually has a conflict of interest

because he is a head of a company that makes these these

key tones but I decided to bring him in because I think there is great value I've

changed my position quite a bit for Frank come on I just want to clarify it. I now believe that

is relatively unhealthy for your body to create ketones not that you can't do it or shouldn't do it, but it's an emergency mechanism.

There's great value to it and it keeps you alive. But in order to make ketones, you have to activate

stress hormones. There's no other way you're going to do it.

You're in a it's an emergency response.

You're going to have to go to cortisol, adrenaline, glucagon, and if you do that chronically I don't think it's a good idea.

I used to do that but I don't do it anymore.

But that doesn't mean that keytones are dangerous. They're actually very powerful tools that you can use

selectively to improve your health.

And we're going to talk about how that does that in a bit.

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