What are ketones and what is ketosis?

Ketones, B-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), acetoacetate (ACA), and acetone, are molecules made in the liver from the breakdown of fats. This typically only happens when you’re following a very strict high fat and low carbohydrate diet, or fasting. When insulin levels are low and glucagon and ephine levels are relatively normal, fat is released from fat cells and travels to the liver. Here, ketones are produced and used as an alternative to glucose as energy to fuel the body. Nutritional ketosis is the process of your body breaking down fat as a source of fuel and creating ketones. Supplementing with exogenous ketones like KETO//OS® introduces ketone bodies into your bloodstream without pushing your body into nutritional ketosis, allowing you to experience a range of health benefits.

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What are BHB Salts and where do they come from?

BHB is found in nature in many foods including eggs and milk. Salts are acids and bases bound by ionic bonds. Salt is a chemistry term used to describe a specific type of chemical compound. Technically, they are defined as ionic compounds formed by the neutralization of an acid and a base. They consist of positively charged and negatively charged components, which typically dissociate in water or water-based solutions (such as blood). In lay terminology, we call table salt, which is actually sodium chloride (NaCl) “salt,” but it is just one of many chemical compounds which are defined as salts. The “BHB salt” is simply a compound that consists of sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), and the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate. In the Keto OS product package, these individual components are being held together by ionic bonds; however, when you eat the product, it is absorbed into the blood where it dissociates into free Na+, K+, and BHB since it is a water-based solution. Thus, consuming the product directly and immediately puts ketones into your blood. Ketones are naturally slightly acidic, so the combination of BHB with sodium acts as a bit of a buffer to this acidity. Ketones will also naturally act as a diuretic, so you lose salt, potassium calcium and magnesium, and it is generally encouraged to increase sodium intake with ketones. The addition of sodium to the product will replenish this salt loss.