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I've heard some people also suffer from ammonia breath from ketosis. Maybe you have experienced that?

• rhinoceraptor 10y ago
  It's acetone breath, it is a temporary side effect of keto-adaptation. Other ones include excessive thirst, light headedness and headaches. Most people never heavily use ketones, so it takes the body some time to re-build the machinery to do so.
  • spdionis 10y ago
    I confirm I did have all of the above. Possibly the light-headedness was also cause by not having eaten enough, but it was too strong for that to be the only factor.
  • goldfeld 10y ago
    Yeah, the symptoms sound like detoxication, those generally having foul smells and needing extra water to wash away our old fears.
• cobbzilla 10y ago
  as mentioned in the article-- It's acetone, not ammonia. Acetone is one of the byproducts of keto metabolism, and, unlike other byproducts which are expelled in the urine, acetone is breathed out, resulting in the slightly-sweet-smelling "keto breath".