Many health insurance plans have an out-of- pocket expense maximum. An out-of-pocket expense is a nonreimbursable expense paid by a patient. But out-of-pocket expenses can also include covered expenses that you are responsible for before your health-plan benefits kick in at 100 percent coverage.
The process of ketosis is one of the physiological effects of fasting in which the brain (and some other bodily processes) uses ketones produced from fatty tissues as a fuel instead of the usual glucose. This is called muscle sparing.
Asker's rating. 1  Ketosis occurs when your fat stores are broken down by the body to use as Energy. this happens in diabetics when there is not enough insulin in your body to cover the amount of food you are eating. However, if you have a very low calorie diet you can also experience ketosis. Some older fad diets used to recommend that people buy Ketostix (available at your drug store) and use them to measure the success of their diets. You pee on the strip and it turns colors - purple if I remember correctly.