What’s a Good Window for Fasting? It Depends, Here’s Tools That Can Help

I thought you'd enjoy some info about fat oxidation and various related biomarkers (e.g. ketones, breath acetone etc…)

Here are a few big takeaways:

– The physiology about how fat is burned and ketones are made

– Testing the different metabolites: advantages and limitations

– Making sense of the different ketone metabolites for health and disease tracking tracking

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The breath acetone tracking device we mentioned above is made by Biosense, it's a neat unit that I've been testing with over the years. You can use code HIH to save $30 at checkout.

 

Related Video: making sense of breath acetone in the context of nutritional ketosis and fat oxidation

Articles Worth Reading

 

Prabhakar A, Quach A, Wang D, Zhang H, Terrera M, et al. (2014) Breath Acetone as Biomarker for Lipid Oxidation and Early Ketone Detection. Glob J Obes Diabetes Metab Syndr 1(1): 012-019.
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Anderson, J. C. (2015). Measuring breath acetone for monitoring fat loss: Review. Obesity, 23(12), 2327–2334. http://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21242 h