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Originally Posted by NewChief
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I'm not disagreeing that there is a difference between ketosis and ketoacidosis, but the production of ketone bodies themselves acidifies the blood. Ketoacidosis is a threshold of danger. Being below that threshold doesn't mean that you are completely clear of danger.
For example, pH is a logarithmic scale and the pH of the blood is about 7.4. Your blood has two efficient buffer systems, but stressing those to the point where you are lowering your pH even by a three tenths, while not meeting the threshold of ketoacidosis, is doubling the amount of protons in your bloodstream.
That's not going to have immediate effects, but if you stay on that diet for years, I would bet you'll start to see detrimental effects.
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