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so today we’re going to talk about why

your urine may give off a strong ammonia

odor when you’re on keto now ammonia is

the byproduct of protein now what

normally should happen is when you

consume protein some of it goes to the

tissues some of it is used as fuel and

the rest goes through waste through your

urine okay as urea so ammonia is the

intermediate step between protein and

urea now if you have liver damage let’s

say you have cirrhosis this cycle here

gets interrupted and you start building

up too much ammonia and that can back up

in the blood and be very toxic however

there is another condition where you can

have ammonia in the urine and it’s not

toxic and here’s why acidic urine

triggers the production of ammonia and

I’ll put a link down below but when your

blood becomes slightly too acidic you

trigger the production of ammonia

sometimes up to five to ten X and why is

that

because ammonia is extremely alkaline

it’s 11.7 so neutral is seven as you go

lower it becomes more acidic as you go

higher becomes more alkaline now just to

give you more reality on the pH scale

seven is neutral six is acidic eight is

alkaline when you go from seven to eight

eight is ten times more alkaline and six

is ten times more acidic so it’s by a

power of ten so if we’re going nine ten

eleven point seven this is extremely

alkaline so ammonia is there to buffer

the acidic pH now this is not a bad

thing and you don’t have anything to

worry about especially if you don’t have

liver damage or cirrhosis so basically

you’re on the ketogenic diet things are

becoming more acid to balance that out

your body makes a little more ammonia

what you could do is increase the amount

of vegetables to increase your alkaline

minerals magnesium and potassium because

if the pH is not overly acidic you won’t

have this ammonia but if you’re doing

ketosis and then you add intermittent

fasting you’re gonna actually generate

more ketones and you may have some

ammonia nothing to worry about

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