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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 533783" data-attributes="member: 41816">You can get ketone-detecting strips to dip in your urine to test whether you are in ketosis.  But this won't really prove anything except that you have been using fat as fuel.  The fat could have come from bodily fat stores or food.There have, at various times, been theories that high protein and high fat diets damage the kidneys, due to the extra work the kidneys have to do to eliminate the wastes from these diets.This is what probably causes the knee jerk ketones-are-bad reaction in medical staff.However, I believe that recent studies have established that prolonged periods of ketosis only affect kidneys that are already malfunctioning.  Healthy kidneys cope perfectly well.  So it probably makes more sense to test for kidney damage than for the presence of ketones!</blockquote>

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