Why MCT Oil Boosts Your Ketones: Dr. Bikman Explains 

good idea!

Great idea 💡

Such an amazing idea 😮👏👏👏

It's available to community members on his website.

Yes.

Those would be oils saturated oils such as coconut oil and mono saturated (one bond) olive oil. Poly saturated oils (seed oils) contain lots of carbon bonds and therefore are easily broken down and inflammatory. At high temperature, olive oil unlike coconut oil, will turn into a trans fat.

Butter has a lot of short chain fatty acids

No, they are eliminated with urine and some part via breathing. This is how the urine tests for ketones and breathe tests for alcohol work.

According to a paper titled Metabolism of ketone bodies during exercise and training, DOI:10.1113/JP273185 "The Metabolic actions of ketone bodies can alter fuel selection through attenuating (decreasing) glucose utilisation in peripheral tissues, *anti-lipolytic* effects on adipose tissue and attenuation ( a decrease) of proteolysis in skeletal muscle." Similar to how Insulin behaves. Because is is a fuel, it keeps more fuel from being used or made until it is used up or excreted. "in contrast, ketogenic diets _suppress fatty acid synthesis_ enzymes..." Ketone bodies as singaling metabolites, doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2013.09.002 IOW, being ketogenic turns down the body's fat building enzyme, so while you may not be breaking down fat, from exogenous ketones, you won't be building it. and unused ketones are not recombined as far as I've read, but i'm always looking for new studies to prove that. That's why I love following Dr. Bikman, and modern UTD studies.

@@anastasiag299 thank you very much! 🙂your answer leads me then to my last (ignorant) question: ketone stripes won’t then measure ketone levels “actively in use” by our body cells UNLESS you are over consuming MCT or for example over consuming your own body fat, driven by gluconeogrnesis… The stripes work only because of the excess ketones that you are excreting and that you can measure, no? (I am sure that there is an easy explanation and I am making a mistake, I am just curious)

Three Ketone measurements: 1. Urine Strips measure Acetoacetate (AcAc). 2. Blood Meters measure Beta Hydroxy Butyrate (BHB). 3. Breathalyzers measure Acetone. AcAc and BHB are the Ketones used/burned. Acetone is the final unusable waste product of Fat and Ketone burning. Depending on where you are on the metabolic spectrum, you may excrete AcAc as Excess Krones, breath out Acetone from burning Fat AND Ketones, and have BHB circulating in your blood to where it's needed. Measure what's important to you.

@@iroulis thanks a lot 🙏

I’m the same I wonder this too

May not be insulin resistant yet but you better cut back on the carbs or you will be.

@@marktapley7571I eat low carb, keto diet.

Excellent info & question. I assume you were fasted for 12+ hours. With the elevated A1c & glucose, in the absence of carbs, your body may be using excess protein to make glucose.. Dr. Paul Mason has good videos regarding having elevated A1c levels while on a keto/carnivore diet. He talks about the importance of the lifespan of the reticulocytes and their role in the A1c number. Also, if your BMI is 25 or below and you have high LDL cholesterol, you may be a Lean Mass Hyper-Responder. All the best on this journey! :)

@@DrDarciDMullThank you for sharing your knowledge. Yes I fast 12-16 hours normally and have High LDL and BMI of 19.7. Should I be concerned about high average glucose and A1C levels? How can I lower my glucose and A1C levels?

O MY gosh.. this is me.. we need help

It is possible you are eating too much fat, such that your body does not ever need to use your stored body fat reserves for energy. Dr Bikman says to first prioritize protein, cut carbs, then lastly fill in with fat. Prioritizing protein also helps significantly increase satiety & thereby reduce the desire to overeat. Keep tweaking. Don't give up!

I suggest you get yourself a new doctor., who will listen to you and give a second opinion. You don’t say how old you are but, I would have thought HRT would be needed after hysterectomy.

Perhaps try some longer fasts as well? I don't lose weight if I am drinking butter coffee... I drop the fat content of my foods so I burn my own body fat... just a suggestion. Good luck... My HA1C was rock bottom last time I checked. I have dropped in excess of 30 pounds in 2 years... fasting was the answer for me.

A friend of mine had his gallbladder removed and his doctor told him to strictly reduce his fat intake as much as possible since bile is required to digest fat and not having a gal bladder means bile production is minimal to none.

MCT oil is derived from coconut oil. MCT stands for Medium Chain Triglycerides which are fats.

@@carnivorewhisperer5823 yes, but my question is what is the difference?MCT is twice as expensive and I love coconut oil

@@MrLuba6a iirc butter has about 5 - 7% MCT, Coconut oil has about 15%... MCT oil is around 99% ... so you get MCT either way, but higher percentage means lower calories per ketones.

@@SHOTbyGUN Thanks for the reply, but for me wasn't very clear. Anyway, there isn't a big deal if you use coconut oil instead of MCT! I love both of them, but MCT is hard to obtain here, where I live...

simply the concentration. Having coconut oil does contain c8 and c10. But the % is mild. MCT oil is concentrated and is pure 100% c8 and c10. nothing else. If your still confused just google medium chain trigs and mct oil. Its a bit complex.

No it is not peed out - however, be careful to start with a small amount and gradually increase over time as it will cause loose bowels 😮

I have to agree about this. My body hates it. My ketosis, fasting, weight loss goes pear shaped when I introduce mct oil. Just won't have a bar of it. Goes straight into the storage tanks that I can not utilise. Its not quite as black and white as the research suggests.

That’s incorrect. There are good oils and bad oils and our body actually needs some oil to process certain fat soluble vitamins and nutrients in the body. There are also oils in natural foods, such as oily fish, nuts etc so it’s a fallacy to say our bodies needs no oil at all.

Do you know all cells contain a lipid-bilayer cell membranes?