"Sweet smelling sweat keeps mosquitoes at bay"

Supposedly, if your body makes more ketones, you will be less attractive to mosquitoes.

But the article doesn't say if you can do anything to influence your ketone production.

Comments

[Brock]

Don't eat any carbs for 4~5 hours. You'll go into ketosis. If you get hungry, stick to bacon.

[Chris C]

Yes, a low carb / high protein diet will push you into ketosis.

[akatony]

... it will take longer than 4-5 hours though depending on your activity level.

[pj]

Ketones are produced in terms of glucose scarcity by the liver from fats as an alternative energy substrate to glucose for neurons and other cells that don't metabolize fats. Restrict carbs and eat a lot of fats, especially shorter-chain saturated fats such as in coconut oil, to produce ketones.

Ketone production becomes significant within 16 hours of starting a fast or within a week or so of starting a diet with less than ~500 carb calories per day. It rises substantially as carb intake declines to 200 carb calories per day or less.