Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB)

What is Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB)?

Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), is one of the three ketone bodies (energy molecules) your body makes when it’s running on fat instead of carbs. It’s also known as 3-hydroxybutyric acid or 3-hydroxybutanoic acid (3HB)
The three main ketones your body makes from fatty acids are:
Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB). This is the most abundant, making up to 78% of total ketones in the blood
Acetoacetate (AcAc). It makes up around 20% of ketones in the blood.
Acetone. The least abundant, making about 2% of ketones in the blood. It’s not used for energy.
Both BHB and acetone are derived from acetoacetate (AcAc), however, BHB is the main ketone used for energy because it’s extremely stable and abundant, while acetone is lost through respiration and sweat.
Your body makes two types of BHB
D-BHB: This is the one your cells use for efficient energy and its produced in high amounts. It’s responsible for the anti-aging effects of total BHB.
L-BHB: This one is produced in lower quantities and can’t be used for energy as efficiently as D-BHB. It’s more helpful in the synthesis of fatty acids.

10 Reasons Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) Is a Rockstar Fuel

Killer Combo: BHB Salts + MCTs

Taking BHB salts with MCTs raises blood BHB higher than salts or MCTs alone.
Take a look:

This graph, taken from a patent by the keto experts and researchers Dominic Paul D’Agostino, Patrick Arnold, and Shannon Kesl, shows that supplementing with a mix of BHB salts and MCTs drove blood BHB to a maximum of 1.33 mmol/L in just one hour.
In contrast, BHB salts alone increased BHB to a maximum of 0.93 mmol/L, while MCTs increased it to a maximum of 0.53 mmol/L in a similar timeframe.
This combo can also be better at lowering blood sugar than BHB salts alone. A 4-week study showed that BHB salts + MCT kept blood sugar consistently lower than BHB mineral salts throughout the whole experiment.[*]
So, if you want to run on BHB, you can get there effortlessly by adding some MCTs to your exogenous ketones– how easy is that?
A great way to combine the two is in your morning coffee or in fat bombs like Perfect Keto Mocha Fat Bombs.
There’s one more thing you can do to amplify the benefits of BHB salts: Fasting.

How does BHB works?

Beta-hydroxybutyrate is floats around in your blood, if you either take supplemental forms or if your body is making beta-hydroxybutyrate, it is able to start processing in your body resulting in energy.
It does work by going into the cell, then enters the mitochondria (energy factories) at which stage it cleaves the carboxyl acid group and becomes acetoacetate (another “ketone body”). Finally throughout your body in your blood, crossing many tissues where other molecules can’t, then it is processed into energy.

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