Oxford Review - Ketones and Metabolic Health
Introduction – The Vicious Cycle of Metabolic Dysregulation Metabolism is the set of all chemical reactions in the body which sustain life. It is an incredibly complex network of reactions that regulate each other to maintain homeostasis, the ability of the organism to preserve internal stability. Unfortunately, the western lifestyle, especially the ultra-processed diet and lack of physical activity, can dysregulate homeostasis of many metabolic processes. As a result, an alarmingly high number of people need to fix their metabolism – 96 million people have prediabetes (38% of adult US population)1, and one third of US adults have metabolic...