I tried looking, but didn’t really find an answer.
What is the maximum level of ketones one should have before being concerned?
My last test, before supper was BG: 62, BK 5.9
I am not metabolically deranged, not so I have T2D, or T1D.
KetoCancerMom's Ketone levels
KetoCancerMom
(Cancer Fighting Ketovore :))
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KevinB
#2
I don’t know the answer either, but I’d be concerned if mine went over 7 or maybe 8 mmol/L.
My highest reading was 5.7 mmol/L and I felt fine when I got that reading.
Here’s a chart that you’ve probably already seen:
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#4
If your pancreas is producing any insulin at all, the risk of ketoacidosis is vanishingly small. There is a discussion session with Dr. Phinney on YouTube in which he asks, at one point, what the highest ketone level was that anyone had recorded. I believe in that group it was 12 point something, and the guy was fine. I may not have this quite right, but my impression is that insulin has something to do with regulating blood pH, as well as its obvious role in shutting down ketone production.
There was something about this on the Hyperlipid blog, and I’ll try to track it down, because Peter had an interesting insight into this whole issue.