put your body into different healthy levels of nutritional ketosis, a natural metabolic state that kicks into gear when there’s not enough glucose (the kindling on the fire that I mentioned earlier) in your blood to use for energy. When there’s no sugar to burn for fuel, your body starts using stored sugar in the liver (glycogen) to release usable energy into the bloodstream. Once that runs out, your body starts to use stored fats instead (the sustainably burning firewood on the fire). This process creates ketones, a type of compound that your liver makes, in the body. When you have ketones
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