I test my breath ketones with a breathalyzer that cost less than $3 with shipping on ebay. I test blood glucose with a meter I found on amazon for $12 which included 100 strips, 100 lances, the lancing device, control solution and a zippered pouch with free shipping, The blood ketones are tested with a 2nd meter I got for less than $20 which also included 50 glucose strips and the rest of a starter kit. The ketone strips were nearly $20 for 10, but that was all I needed to get a good correlation of my breathalyzers. Skin fold calipers were less than $15. I take photos with a used smart phone I bought off ebay for $30. And I use free apps on it to track speed/distance/heart rate when exercising using it’s GPS and I use it to log much of my other health/fitness data.
Through fasting/near fasting in just the past 3 weeks I’ve probably saved more on food than I’ve spent on the gadgets.
Doing this stuff over the past year I’ve largely fixed my fatty liver, bad HbA1c, scary high blood pressure and orthostatic hypotension, dyslipidemia, chronic inflammation, IBS, raynaud’s and the festering wounds of fingers and toes, peyrone’s, lymphedema, peripheral neuropathy, frequent urination, hypoxemia, insomnia and miserable night sweating, headaches, fatigue, frequent colds and pleurisy, dropped my body fat from ~45% to ~20% and reversed clinical symptoms of SBMA - a supposedly untreatable progressive neuro-muscular wasting disease from which I was in a death spiral. Taking that into consideration I consider it time and money well spent.
