ketosis
noun
Example Sentences
Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 July 2022 Want to enjoy a PB smoothie without getting knocked out of ketosis? Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2022 That's because the goal is to deprive the body of its primary energy source—carbohydrates—and load up on fat in order to force your body into a metabolic state called ketosis, in which stored fat is burned for energy, as SELF has reported. Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 4 June 2022 The program is focused on eating more proteins and higher healthy fats (and in turn fewer carbs), but is not aiming for true ketosis like the Keto diet. Samantha Lande, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2022 The strikers’ bodies were starting to go through ketosis, where the body starts metabolizing its own fat and glucose stores, Marya said. Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022 Using effective dietary principles like ketosis and intermittent fasting, Level II will help heal the gut, restore the metabolism, release years of toxic build-up, and hit reset on the body’s systems—revealing a healthier, more vibrant-feeling you. Meggen Taylor, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Ketone esters are substances that contain ketones and can induce a state of ketosis similar to what follows near-starvation or a low-carb, high-fat diet. Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 29 July 2020 Today, ironically, ketosis is fashionable with the keto diet, which proponents say causes substantial weight loss and can help those with Type 2 diabetes dramatically improve their blood sugar levels, which fall when people avoid carbs. Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2021 See More Word History
ket(one) + -osis (after acidosis)
Note: The word ketosis was apparently introduced, somewhat hesitantly, by the American physician Frederick Madison Allen (1879-1964) in "The Role of Fat in Diabetes," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, series 2, vol. 153, no. 3 (March, 1917), p. 335: "The second basis of definition [of acidosis] is that of need and distinctiveness. Diminished alkalinity, increased hydrogen ion concentration, lowering of carbon dioxide, decrease of buffer salts, and (for the symptoms of these changes) acid intoxication—all these terms have definite meanings, and to appropriate the name acidosis for any one of them is merely to create a useless synonym. No other name but acidosis exists for the metabolic process which it denotes. Ketonuria and ketonemia have their accurate place but do not cover the ground. Possibly the word ketosis might be suggested and used for special purposes, but the change of established usage would be difficult and seems unnecessary."
1917, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
ketosis
noun