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When healthy adults haven't eaten overnight and have low insulin levels, having higher levels of fatty acids in their blood (about double the normal amount) makes their liver produce more than twice as many ketone bodies - the molecules your body makes when breaking down fat for energy.
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Fatty acid-independent inhibition of hepatic ketone body production by insulin in humans.
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1988 JunThe study gave people extra fats (through an IV) to raise their blood fat levels while keeping insulin low, then measured how much ketone their livers produced. The results matched exactly what the claim said - raising fats from 0.73 to 1.53 mmol/L more than doubled ketone production from 3.6 to 8.2 units.
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