Are Amino Acids keto-friendly?Updated a year ago

Of the three types of Amino Acids (essential, non-essential and conditional), they can be broken down into further groups depending on the type of intermediates they form during their metabolism.

The 20 Amino Acids are classified into ketogenic Amino Acids, glucogenic Amino Acids, or both. Lysine and Leucine are the only two ketogenic Amino Acids, while tryptophan, isoleucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine and threonine are both ketogenic and glucogenic (Gracia, Z. 2022).