Just curious on how often others here keep tabs on their GKI. Mine has been staying in the therapeutic range recently. I assume that is a good thing ?
Certainly looks good on paper. Mine was 1.5 this morning.
(Edited - initially posted my gki as 2.6 but that was my blood ketone reading, fasting blood glucose was 70)
I’m only recently back to keto due to back pain, hoping for a reduction in inflammation so I’m monitoring my GKI.
Since 3rd of Jan I’ve had a GKI under 5.
I do a lot of exercise so did an experiment this morning. Normally I train fasted but often feel light headed. This morning I had a GKI on waking of 4.1. Had a protein shake that had 35g protein and 18g carbs. After my session my GKI was 2.5, lowest so far. I’m delighted 
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I don’t know how long I’ll continue monitoring it for as the strips aren’t cheap. Maybe until I’m confident I’m doing it all the time. I’d like to eventually trust myself to not log everything on MyFitnessPal, hopefully I’ll get there sometime this year.
Thanks for the reply, and I hear you on the cost of the strips. A couple of months in on my Keto diet I’ve learned that if my urine strips show ketones, my blood ketones are high enough to suit me as well.
So I’m slowly backing off of the blood ketone meter and relying on the urine strips.
I think it is good to monitor, if you have your ketone production strategy ducks all lined up well.
Dr. Boz’s sardine reset can get some of us long termers back there.
It’s not. I pay attention to my glucose, but couldn’t care less about the ketones. Fell into that trap years ago, It was very successful at taking money from me, with no real end benefit.
I track it for pain management, mostly, and to help manage my autoimmune stuff. Not everyday, but if my routine changes I track for a few days… I like to stay in the 2-4 range.
Do you think it helps autoimmune stuff? My hypo thyroid is autoimmune and just recently (before coming back to keto) I felt like things were slowing down again, dry hair, dry skin, lower pulse, so cold & worse constipation. I’ve been thinking of getting a blood test to check on it again.
Yes, it does sound like you need a blood test.
I have three autoimmune conditions. Hashi’s is one. I still take levothyroxine. I was able to lower my dose with keto carnivore, but also IF. When I switched to Tirosint I needed to lower it again. Tirosint has no fillers, no pork, is expensive, and works really well for me after got going with it.
I would say that yes, it helps, but probably more so for those early on. I wouldn’t do GKI for thyroid on its own.
