The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

The definitive guide to Kito.

I used my local surroundings as a barometer for changes in the mainstream approach to health,

and it holds up quite well.

Malibu people are generally too busy to obsess over arcane health topics

until someone else has poured over them and made it more digestible.

They lag the cutting edge, but not by much. So when it

hits here, it's hit everywhere. And the Malibu hills are alive with a smell of ketones. At the local

cafe where every species of Malibu endurance athletes gathers to gossip and fuel up, I'm seeing fewer cakes, cookies, and muffins,

and way more butter coffees and discarded ketone ester packets. Trail runners on canyon hikes

waft ketone breath as they pass. Sure enough, keto is growing everywhere. Google searches

for ketogenic diet are at an all-time

high. The stream of keto-related email queries and comments I receive has seen a major uptick.

And late last year, a major publisher approached me with a keto book proposal. I accepted.

So it's probably time to do a definitive guide. To understand

ketogenic diets, you must understand the conditions that promote ketosis. And to do that, you must

understand the steps our bodies take to beta oxidize fatty acids for energy. One,ty acids are broken down into acetyl co-A.

2. Acetyl CoA combines with oxaloacetate.

3. The acetylcoa slash oxaloacetate duo starts the Krebs cycle.

4. The Krebs cycle produces ATP, the body's energy currency.

5. Congratulations. You've just turned fat into energy.

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