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By: Steve Whitehead

Steve Whitehead — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:08:04 +0000

Great question AJ. And one ripe for debate. Depending on who you ask yes … or … no. Confused? Me too.

The media (including JEMS Magazine have discussed case reports of Ketoacidosis in non-diabetics using low carb diets.

The low-carb culture blows off those few cases as misunderstood and unrelated to the low-carb diet. They claim that high blood glucose needs to be present before ketosis can convert in to ketoacidosis.

That sound s a bit sketchy to me. But we can say that, while it may be possible to induce ketoacidosis through carb restriction alone, it certainly isn’t common.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:04:24 +0000

So, do non-diabetic people (aka atkin’s dieters) ever end up with ketoacidosis? What is the effect on healthy folks of these ketone bodies?

By: Steve Whitehead

Steve Whitehead — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:23:36 +0000

Glad to hear that you only had to experience it once to get it under control Newt. You highlight the fact that, often, the patient is the best teacher for stuff like this.

Thanks for your input.

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By: CrazyNewt

CrazyNewt — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:37:39 +0000

Ketoacidosis is NOT fun. I went through Diabetic Ketoacidosis when I was around 13 or so (type I Diabates), and it was awful. Your symptoms, while totally accurate, do not convey the sheer hell of it all. I looked like a skeleton – lost something like twenty pounds in two weeks (and this was when I was young – I think I weighed 85 pounds or something before I was finally diagnosed).