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Journal

Short reads on ketones, caffeine metabolites and hydration. No hype, sources at the bottom of every one.

A chrome stopwatch on wet dark slate beside a tall glass of iced lemon drink and a scattered pile of mineral crystals BHBHow much BHB, and how fast does it actually workSeven grams of BHB salt moved blood ketones in half an hour, in humans. An eight week trial ran ten grams a day. Here is what...Read A tall glass of iced lemon drink on wet dark slate with a shaft of light casting a bright caustic pattern across the stone BHB1,602 people and what ketones did to their thinkingThirty-eight studies. 1,602 people. Ketones beat placebo on cognition, and more ketones meant more effect. The honest part is that the effect is modest, and we...Read A heavy steel dumbbell on wet dark slate beside a tall glass of iced lemon drink BHBWhat the GLP-1 muscle loss study actually foundUp to 45 percent of GLP-1 weight loss can be muscle. A 2026 study stopped that from happening in mice. Here is what it showed, and...Read Tall glass of iced lemon drink on wet slate beside a bowl of sea salt, a halved lemon and a pile of mineral crystals BHBWhy electrolytes alone will not fix your hydrationMinerals do not move themselves. The pump that moves them runs on fuel your electrolyte drink does not have. And the water you are chasing is...Read Tall glass of iced lemon drink on wet slate with sea salt and a halved lemon BHBHydration and energy are the same problemYou are probably not tired. You are dry. Tired and dehydrated feel identical from the inside, and that is the whole problem.Read One coffee bean beside three dishes of powder in falling amounts, a glass of sparkling water behind caffeineWhat caffeine turns intoCaffeine is the package. Your liver opens it. Two of the three things inside do all the work, so we stopped sending the package.Read Two bowls on slate, creatine powder and ketone salt, with a glass of lemon drink between them BHBAre ketones better than creatine?Someone always says just take creatine. Fine. Creatine is great, and it does not do the job ketones do. One recycles energy. The other makes it.Read