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She died from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes a dangerous build-up of ketones - a type of acid - and blood sugar spikes at her home in Toowoomba west of Brisbane in January 2022.

Research at the Buck Institute shows that ketone bodies can best be understood as powerful signaling metabolites affecting brain function in aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Magistrates were told how she had Type 1 diabetes, and often vomited when her ketone levels were imbalanced, sometimes causing her to need hospital.

To feed cells that normally subsist on carbs, the liver pumps out molecules called ketones, hence the diet’s name.

It is about the presence of the ketone body, a substance produced by the liver and used as an energy source when glucose is not available.