People like to get healthy, burn body fat, increase their aerobic capacity, and improve their cognitive function. The ketogenic diet is an excellent way to obtain those outcomes, which partially explains its meteoric rise in popularity. But people also like to drink alcohol. You might say it’s a toxin—I wouldn’t disagree. You might say we’d be better off without it—perhaps. The fact remains that people have been drinking for tens of thousands of years, and they’re not going to stop anytime soon. Can keto and alcohol coexist? Is there anything we need to take into consideration? First things first, does alcohol inhibit ketosis? (This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)