[Mr. Jeeves]

I mean, what kind of psycho doctor would advise patients to go into ketosis, a pathological condition?

You are confusing ketosis with ketoacidosis, which is a pathological, life threatening condition. Ketosis is simply a state where one's body is buring fat instead of glucose.

You have made three straight posts that show you have no idea what you are talking about.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

You are confusing ketosis with ketoacidosis,

You're the one who's confused.

Miller-Keane Medical Dictionary, 2000 (ke-to´sis) accumulation in the blood and tissues of large quantities of the "ketone bodies" KETONE BODIES: beta-hydroxybutyric acid, acetoacetic acid, and acetone. Because the first two are acids, this results in metabolic "acidosis" ACIDOSIS. Thus, the condition is often referred to as ketoacidosis. adj., ketot´ic. When fatty acids are metabolized in the liver, an intermediate, acetylcoenzyme A (acetyl CoA), is produced. Normally, acetyl CoA is condensed with oxaloacetic acid, a product of carbohydrate metabolism, to form citric acid. This then enters the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the final common pathway of cellular energy metabolism. When oxaloacetate is not present, acetyl CoA is converted by another pathway to ketone bodies. These compounds cannot be metabolized by the liver and are released into the blood stream. Other tissues, including muscle, brain, heart, and kidneys, can convert ketone bodies back to acetyl CoA and metabolize them as an energy source. In acute starvation or in uncontrolled "diabetes mellitus" DIABETES MELLITUS, there is a great increase in fatty acid metabolism and impaired or absent carbohydrate metabolism, which results in a greatly increased production of ketone bodies. This can also occur when the diet is composed almost entirely of fat. The production of ketone bodies is reduced to the normal low level and the ketoacidosis is reversed when adequate carbohydrate metabolism is restored. The patient with ketosis often has a sweet or "fruity" odor to his breath. This is produced by acetone, a ketone body that is highly volatile and is blown off in small amounts with air expired from the lung

Ketosis is simply a state where one's body is buring fat instead of glucose.

Any real doctor can tell you that ketosis is an abnormal metabolic production of ketones, and that "Benign Dietary Ketosis" exists only in the deluded minds of Atkins dieters.