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[Jemmons]

22. You are reading a lot into my post that there isnt any basis for

Quoting you:

My opinion is that your looking at this as an individual who is trying to discredit the chemical reaction used by the instrument to measure BAC.

Im not.
And none of what i have said is in any way shape or form "my theory".

You seem to reject either:
a) the assumption that accetone will triger a breathalyzer "alcohol alert" or
b) that acetone would be present in relevant amounts.


If your point is that acetone will not trigger false alarms, you should read back a bit see that what I said was that it "might" and that "some seem to think so"....

I have yet to understand why this is an issue for you and what your point is.

All im saying is that the lifestyle of alcoholics and/or drug addicts are know to be associated with a level of malnurishment that gets into ketogenic territory. This link relies on ketones being produced as compensation for low intake of food and/or carbohydrates.

You dont need to be malnourished or starved in that sense to get the extreme levels of ketones seen in keto-acidosis if you have diabetes 1. Its a different chain of events: both nutritional ketosis and keto accidosis has higher than average levels of ketones in the middle, but they have different causes and different consequences. And for those reasons keto accidosis is not relevant for false alarms in breathalyzer tests.