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Ketone body
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ketone bodies.
Ketosis and ketoacidosis
Individuals who follow a low-carbohydrate diet will also develop ketosis. This induced ketosis is sometimes called nutritional ketosis, but the level of ketone body concentrations are on the order of 0.5–5 mM whereas the pathological ketoacidosis is 15–25 mM.