Elevated ketone levels during famine suppress FSH and LH in women but not men, likely to halt reproduction during scarcity.

“in a calorie restricted state when ketones are elevated it suppresses FSH and LH and women but not in men this is super interesting to me and it hasn't has a profound evolutionary I mean again maybe I'm just making up a story to fit this but I mean it's if we're gonna subscribe to any of Occam's razor this would be great application in a period of famine you would want women to stop reproducing you would want to shut off FSH and LH you would want men to have no impairment on their testosterone level”