Ok.
It turns out, contrary to popular belief, that I am indeed human.
After so much restriction, I couldn’t bring myself to do any more, as romantic as it sounded in my head, I wasn’t able to remain “pure” to complete the planned testing.
Steaks with barbecue sauce, maple bacon, pork chops and cheese. Tuna salad with mayo and bell peppers, and peanut butter banana filled keto candies were calling my name.
Magic mushroom powder on cracklin’ chicken, Puruvian anticuchos, fresh flat leaf parsley in browned butter…
(most of those recipes I posted on this forum within the last week)
I had been deprived much too long of flavors.
I plan to test sweeteners, but it will have to be in my now defiled body. Lol
I’ll test by using a BG monitor (and my 2 ketone monitors just for good measure) like this:
After several hours fasted (15-20), I test my BG (and ketones). Then I eat a measurement of sweetener (say, 1/2 teaspoon erythritol), then test every 30 minutes for 3 hours. I will test stevia, sucralose, and probably xylitol.
Eventually this is what I am looking for:
If I get a significant BG (blood glucose) DROP, I’ll know the sweetener caused a significant release of insulin.
We don’t want that.
My suspicion is- all these sweeteners will affect me. I say this because I have noticed I seem to be affected physically by all of them (how I “feel”) when I eat/drink any significant amount.
I have felt tired, sleepy, gotten a headache etc when I eat any significant amount of any artificial sweetener, so I tend to use them as little as possible.
Everyone reacts differently. I am still significantly insulin resistant, and my gut biome may process the sweeteners more efficiently as well. Dammit.
My fasting insulin (recently evaluated) was 11. If I remember the charts correctly that @richard showed me, normal is 6, and anything over 15 is much too high.
I plan to get even healthier, and bring that fasting insulin number down.
I wish I had a fasting insulin number from back in the day when my A1c was 12. My A1c now is a normal range 5.5.
Thanks for following along on my steak challenge and my sensitivities testing, even though I didn’t follow through with keeping my body in a pure state. Lol
It is kind of a super human feat. VERY difficult to eat the same exact thing for days and days, right @DaveKeto?