Frunobulax
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Something for those of you on a ketogenic diet. Switching to low carb (a year ago) and later to keto has been a tremendous help for me, it even enabled me to work again (even though only part time).
I bought a ketone meter because I'm still in the process of a shifting diet (from low glycemic to low carb to dirty keto to traditional keto to carnivore over the last 12 months). Not overly concerned about ketosis (I prepare all food myself and know the carb content), but metabolic anormalities are to be expected with ME/CFS and I'm not sure if they extend to ketone production.
I got the meter about a month ago and it usually showed the expected ketone levels between 1.8 and 3. However, recently I got some very abnormal readings up to 9.0 which would indicate ketoacidosis, however they changed very fast (from 9.0 to 6.0 in ~10 minutes). I didn't eat or drink anything before the tests (which can influence the readings). Diet was normal in the days before that. Obviously I could just have ended up with a faulty device, which may be the most probable explaination. Still...
Ketogenic diet should prevent from ketoacidosis as this usually happens only if we eat carbs (at least diabetic ketoacidosis). However, it's a reaction of the body if it doesn't get enough energy into the mitochondria and ME/CFS implies problems with ATP production, so it's at least conceivable that the ketoacidosis is real.
So I'm curious to know: Have you seen fast fluctuations in ketone levels? Any way to calibrate the ketone meter and check if it works? Is ketoacidosis a thing in ME/CFS?
I bought a ketone meter because I'm still in the process of a shifting diet (from low glycemic to low carb to dirty keto to traditional keto to carnivore over the last 12 months). Not overly concerned about ketosis (I prepare all food myself and know the carb content), but metabolic anormalities are to be expected with ME/CFS and I'm not sure if they extend to ketone production.
I got the meter about a month ago and it usually showed the expected ketone levels between 1.8 and 3. However, recently I got some very abnormal readings up to 9.0 which would indicate ketoacidosis, however they changed very fast (from 9.0 to 6.0 in ~10 minutes). I didn't eat or drink anything before the tests (which can influence the readings). Diet was normal in the days before that. Obviously I could just have ended up with a faulty device, which may be the most probable explaination. Still...
Ketogenic diet should prevent from ketoacidosis as this usually happens only if we eat carbs (at least diabetic ketoacidosis). However, it's a reaction of the body if it doesn't get enough energy into the mitochondria and ME/CFS implies problems with ATP production, so it's at least conceivable that the ketoacidosis is real.
So I'm curious to know: Have you seen fast fluctuations in ketone levels? Any way to calibrate the ketone meter and check if it works? Is ketoacidosis a thing in ME/CFS?