Hi Everyone. I could use your insight here. I have been in ketosis since the beginning of June. My Ketone levels are consistently between 2-3mmol. My blood glucose has dropped an average of 20 points since going keto. All good signs… BUT, now, suddenly, my ketones are down to .6-1.4 for the last week. Nothing new about my diet or food choices. Eating same and doing IF the same as always. Why would this be happening? I appreciate your thoughts! Thank you!
Ketones Suddenly Dropped...Why?
Daisy
#2
Do you feel any different? If you weren’t testing would you have said something has shifted?
anon82178291
#3
Not feeling any different…except more tired just in the last day, but not over the last week.
Sheri_Knauer
(Sheri Knauer)
#4
Stress can cause a decrease in ketones. Not sleeping well or getting enough sleep can cause a decrease in ketones. Also, the longer a person is fat adapted, the more efficient the body gets at producing ketones. In other words, your body will make the amount of ketones it needs without a lot of extra floating around in your blood, thus lower ketone readings when you measure with the blood ketone meter. Those are just 3 possibilities to consider. Im sure there are other reasons not related to food as well. It can be a puzzle, especially if nothing has changed dietarily (Im not sure thats a word but Im a using it any way, lol). Just KCKO!
Anderson
(Anderson Herzogenrath Da Costa)
#5
There are many possibilities:
- Stress or bad sleep can increase cortisol and reduce ketones;
- If you do more physical activities or exercised you’ll see a smaller number on your meter because your body will be consuming more ketones;
- As you become more adapted your body will naturally produce less ketones. It will adjust the supply to the amount you use.
0.6 to 1.4 is a good range. Nothing to be worried about.
collaroygal
(KCKO, KCFO 🥥)
#6
Your body may be burning them instead of just not throwing them off via breath or sweating, not in the blood because you are using them up.
Also stress is a biggie as others have said.
Read this and KCKO
anon82178291
#8
Thank you for this! I read it a while back, but it is a good reminder! She has an updated post from last week that is great too. http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2017/09/measuring-ketones.html#more.
anon82178291
#10
Thanks @Sheri_Knauer, @Daisy, @Anderson. @KBG, Good reminder of all you have shared. Stress and sleep are on and off challenges… I have been adding more strength training (2-3 sessions per week), so perhaps that is a reason too. I had been eating more protein for about a week, upped it by 20 grams per day, and now that I have lowered it back down to previous 60-75g/day, numbers are BG in 60s-low 70s and ketones around 2, which was my previous norm.
I have been testing numbers as an educational tool, being a beginner at all of this. I’d like to just let that part go, and having a bit of trouble, being a data geek.