New Year’s Goals/ Resolutions?

(Bob M) #21

Not to mention that these don’t take into account actual absorption. I had a better study, which also looked at animal products, but this is for iron absorption for legumes:

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916523243695

So, you read that legumes are excellent sources of iron, but the amount of iron that humans actually absorb is super low.

While meat is better, even there the absorption is only 35-45% for beef liver.

These tools just look on the “label” and don’t address absorption.

(Hugh Walter Jennings) #22

Article on increasing Iron absorption

I ordered some Eden black soybeans. Supposed to be here Sunday. 5 net carbs vs 15 in regular black beans.

Looks good on the nutrional content

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(Central Florida Bob ) #23

Or, instead of saying 45% for beef, let’s say 45% divided by 1.91% or 23.6 times more absorption than the legumes.

#24

You mean fat :wink:

Muscle and bone loss is easy, it’s the fat that’s hard!

#25

This year I’m going to gain weight. BMI 18 at 5’8" 121lbs age 66 going to be truly hard. Keto keeps me well but do I lose weight. Feel fit as a fiddle was never over weight 140 lbs my whole life. Course Multiple Myeloma treatment aids in weight lose specially if you do not carry extra fat… Turned to carnivore holding Ketosis will be almost impossible. Bloodwork numbers this month will see. On Carnivore averaging 76% fat 20% protein 4% carbs traces in the meats for 3000 calories a day. It stopped my weight drop and have stayed at 121 lbs for a week. Do lots of training maybe to much with MM do have to be careful with heavy lifting and am careful. Actually to be honest being at this weight does not bother me as much. Retired at 65 and my whole life worked self employed in the construction industry lifting heavy loads daily being less busy understandable to drop what your body does not have a need.

If anyone has a idea I am open to suggestions. Carbs is one but I just do not miss them and whatever carbs the body needs will get turned into carbs from extra protein naturally.

#26

Update: What I am noticing being even if it is hard now to stay in ketosis because I am eating 3000 Plus calories a day on Carnivore mostly with low carbs around 15 to 30 grams a day. Being very active weight training all body parts twice 7 days a week treadmill work all this without not over pushing 2 hours of exercise daily I think it is better that my Liver makes the extra Carbs from the extra protein than me getting them from Carb foods. I am gaining weight which was 119.3 at my lowest at 123.9 now and feel good. Thats a plus Yes I am not in Ketosis but also naturally relying on my body to decide what is best. Bloodwork is later this month will see if it shows well.

(Bean) #27

You may be burning your ketones. Not sure if that puts you out of ketosis or if it just makes measuring them less useful.

(Bob M) #28

Yeah, you might just have lower ketones because your body knows how much to make. You might also have higher blood sugar, to address all that exercise. It would be interesting to see a continuous glucose monitor and a continuous ketone monitor, but then that’d have to be for some time without exercise too, to see what happens.

#29

My New Year’s resolution isn’t to lose weight as I reached target in July and have managed to maintain since. My goals are to document regular weekly exercises at home, increase step count to 100,000 over seven days and to return to keto.

During the summer I increased weightlifting and felt like I needed the carbs to perform well. Now I’ve decided to get back to keto as I can’t ignore the damage that a high sugar diet is doing. My back pain is back with a vengeance and my kidneys aren’t performing as well as they could. I have a strong family history of CKD so really can’t ignore my diet any longer. The back pain responds best to ibuprofen but they’re not friendly to the kidneys so I’m trying to rely on paracetamol and tramadol.

When I went keto before my back pain disappeared. Got to be worth a try :blush:

#30

Yes, I think there is not a balance happening. It is good to add weight but at what cost, The treatment I get certainly drive up my GKI blood glucose with the treatment I have to take Dexamethasone (steroid) lots of glucose and read online people on cancer treatment some it affects the GKI numbers. I am hyper person so the nurse warned me before and my wife…LOL waking up middle of the night is common taking it so train early sometimes. Starting Qi-Gong and Yoga classes this week never done these before all free here in Canada with the cancer diagnosis lots of help this way. Will lower the carnivore intake to 2600 Calories and or eat one good meal a day I never feel hungry. thanks Bean and Bob reaching out. Oh my GKI this morning was 12.3 thats the highest it has ever been was use to being around 1 GKI Glucose 7.4.mmol/L Ketones 0.6 mmol/L says lots Not making ketones and have high Glucose the very opposite. :grinning:

(Bean) #31

Yes, the steroid will mess with your numbers. It does for me. How long are you on it? Are you using MCT?

#32

Once a week on Treatment day 4mg x 3 tablets so 12 mg was a higher dose brought it lower when asked. I have MCT oil that’s a good idea stopped using it for no reason when I got good numbers on Ketogenic both for GKI and Bloodwork. That may boost Ketones hopefully and set things moving some. Thanks. :grinning:

(Bob M) #33

This is from a long time ago (2017), with a continuous glucose monitor:

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I think what happens when you exercise is that glucagon goes up, and glucagon causes blood sugar to go up, which is probably a benefit to your muscles. This is from substack:

Of course, if you’re looking for high GKI, lower blood sugar is better. But if you exercise a lot, your body will create more glucose. It’s glucose that should go into your muscles, but it’s still glucose.

When I was wearing my CGM, I found that my blood sugar for the day was higher, about 5 US units higher (divide by 18 to get European units) on the days I exercised as compared to the days I did not.

I’ve never been able to figure out what happens to ketones with exercise. I assume they change, but they seem relatively stable when I test them with a pin-prick monitor. We’d need some continuous ketone monitors to figure that out. I want to wear one of those, but I can’t get them in the US.

(KM) #34

The substack author, Stephen Thomas BSC apparently has produced “Guide to Blood Tests in the Context of Low-Carb, Keto and Carnivore.”. Has anyone followed him or read this? Sounds like a tremendously useful resource for us.

(Bob M) #35

I have not, but have been thinking about it. In particular, I think he discusses how to interpret iron tests for MTHFR (which is a genetic issue causing lowered iron absorption, and which I have a bit of). Or at least I think that’s him. I find it difficult to interpret the iron blood tests I get, particularly because he says that ferritin isn’t a great marker, and I thought it was THE marker for MTHFR and iron folks.

#36

Bob nice graph that makes clear sense to me when exercising. I measured my GKI again since that last one was few days back of 12.3 and brought it to 2.8 which is a real improvement Glucose 4.8 mmol/L Ketones 1.7 mmoI/L GKI 2.8 is a high therapeutic level for now… The changes I did in those two days was MCT oil dropped calories 2300 from average 3300 82% fat 17% Protein 1% Carbs last night before sleep I got that measurement change. Changed to 100 grams of protein from 150 grams at my low weight could of been a little to much and maybe helped. Ketones nearly up x 3 MCT oil must help. 123.7 Ibs this morning that good as well. Now to work out what is good carnivore balance. Prof Thomas Seyfried mentions The first place glycogen goes to the brain and muscles is a natural fight or flight evolutionary survival response. I am hoping it stays there and I think it does if training is consistent. Thanks again guys.

#37

Guess glycogen lasts 90 to 120 minutes in muscles then breaks down pretty fast with intensity