Nutritional Ketosis

Nutritional ketosis is presented as a sustainable long-term metabolic condition for a healthy person eating a varied low-carbohydrate diet. In nutritional ketosis, blood glucose remains low to normal and reflects healthy metabolic balance. Nutritional ketosis produces blood ketones of about 0.5 to 3 mmol/L, with most people around 1 mmol/L. Nutritional ketosis is described as a controlled low-level ketone elevation rather than an uncontrolled process. Nutritional ketosis maintains normal blood pH because ketone levels are too low to overwhelm buffering systems.