You have made reference to this paper [The human metabolic response to chronic ketosis without caloric restriction: physical and biochemical adaptation.] multiple times on this forum and it clearly doesn't provide data to support the 'cartoon' which you dislike so much. About all it does show is that the subjects of the experiment (elite cyclists) when in ketosis had resting blood 3-HBA levels of 1.28 mmol/L and post exercise levels of 1.45 to 2.44 mmol/L. These values do not represent total blood ketones because AcAc appears not to have been measured, however they do span the 'dark green range' of the cartoon, which is labelled 'optimal ketone zone' and 'post exercise ketosis'.

Question: Why are you so sure that this is the sole paper on which the 'cartoon' is based? I note that the paper was published in 1983 but P&V did many more years of research after that date and published many additional papers.