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Ketosis: Mystery or Misconception? |
 | | It happened simply because the only available test at that time detected 3-hydroxybutyrate (which, in fact, is not a ketone body at all but here it doesn't matter) in diabetic urine. |
 | | Acetone on the other hand is a ketone and is present in blood and urine when the plasma concentration of acetoacetate is elevated. |
 | | In 1967, the streamline health sciences developed a so-called enzymatic method of analysis of acetoacetate and 3-hydroxybutyrate, which led to the dramatic finding that the human brain, while in the condition of prolonged starvation, was able to use ketone bodies. |
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