Weird reading :/


(Gaby Mc Nulty) #1

Hi guys…
Can someone explain me what’s a GKI infinity!!??

So I ate bad (carbs, sugar) I knew I was gonna be out of ketosis…
i did my test and my blood sugar wasn’t that high how I thought was gonna be… 104 md/dL
Then my ketones was 0.0 was the first time that I got a reading under 0.1 What’s that’s mean??? & my GKI was GKI infinity… no idea what that’s mean either…

And why my blood sugar didn’t go to hight… I ate a lot and bad stuff!! :woman_shrugging:t3:

Thanks for the info guys!!!


(bulkbiker) #2

Put simply it means what you ate kicked you out of ketosis. Hence the zero ketones reading.
Depending on your metabolic health and how long after eating you did the blood test the blood sugar reading shows you “got away with it” when eating “bad”.


(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #3

Just math. Anything divided by 0 equals ‘infinity’. More important is how quickly you get back into ketosis.


(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #4

Carbohydrates, being made mostly of long strings of glucose molecules, raise your blood glucose when eaten in quantity. This provokes a significant rise in insulin, as the body tries to clear the excess glucose from your blood stream before it does damage. Insulin has many jobs in the body, one of which is to get muscles to metabolise glucose and fat cells to store the glucose as fat. Another of its jobs is to shut off ketogenesis, the making of ketones, in the liver. (After all, if we’re trying to get rid of a load of glucose, we want the body’s cells to concentrate on that, instead of metabolising ketones.) So it is not surprising that the level of ketones circulating in your blood dropped to zero.

As you stop eating carbohydrate and your serum glucose drops, you should start to see ketones reappearing in your bloodstream.