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Not sure why I'm responding to a throwaway (are you an AI?), but this is patently false.

Holistically: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5563491/#S1

More pointedly:

> Five healthy rhesus monkeys, three male and two female, weighing from 2.4 to 6.1 kilos, were fasted for periods of 2 to 4 days... With one exception, the monkeys developed a ketosis within 2 days

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192581...

Note that Attia's article is about rhesus monkeys.




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