Random stuff about ketones and keto-adaptation

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=524027

"Impaired physical performance is a common but not obligate result of a low carbohydrate diet. Lessons from traditional Inuit culture indicate that time for adaptation, optimized sodium and potassium nutriture, and constraint of protein to 15–25 % of daily energy expenditure allow unimpaired endurance performance despite nutritional ketosis."



From wikipedia:

At the NIH, Dr. Richard Veech refers to ketones as "magic" in their ability to increase metobolic efficiency, while decreasing production of free radicals, the damaging byproducts of normal metabolism. His work has shown that ketone bodies may treat neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease (source), and the heart and brain operate 25% more efficiently using ketones as a source of energy (source).

1st source: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/084D048E-F200-425A-9D46-BE3979458F02/0/KashiwProcNatlAcadSci2000_5440.pdf
2nd source: http://www.jbc.org/cgi/reprint/269/41/25502