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If you are peeing ketones and feeling fine, skip these next four parts of this articles reviewing what can go wrong when you start a keto diet. However, if you tried to make ketones and you never turned your strip pink, read these posts.  Or maybe you succeeded for a time, but then something went wrong. If yo...

Keto Diet and Kidney Stones Kidney stones should be called kidney crystals. That’s what they are: crystals. and the keto diet and kidney stones do sometimes cross paths. Hold on. Don’t run away.  Finish reading about the keto diet and kidney stones.   THIS PROBLEM AFFECTS PATIENTS: 2-4 after their first keton...

THIS PROBLEM AFFECTS PATIENTS: When you begin making ketones. The problem of ketosis and bad breath lasts until the patient is Keto-Adapted (up to 6 weeks). When your body uses ketones, it releases extra units of ketone compounds. Unused ketones flush out of the body as acetoacetate in the urine or acetone th...

BOWELS:  TOO SLOW [CONSTIPATION] THIS PROBLEM AFFECTS PATIENTS: on day 3-4 THIS PROBLEM LASTS UNTIL: your bowels adapt to your new diet. Drinking salted water prevents the keto flu and also helps with changes happening in your guts. I’m referring specifically to your stool. Constipation and hard bowel movemen...