At the expense of being thought of as the anti-Christ of the keto forum I’d like to present some data showing carbs and ketone levels and get your opinion, mainly what I’m getting at is some posters say that insulin is damaging to the cardio vascular system which sounds like sound advice but at what levels? There are pathways in the body that are positively influenced by insulin like the pentose phosphate pathway, glutathione (the main contributer to antioxidant) is influenced by insulin and the the thyroid too. One of the advantages to science is that we challenge what is thought to be true to improve our understanding. I’m not trying to start an argument, just get your thoughts on how increasing carbs to the point (what I’m testing out) of .1 ketone level as I’ve lost all the weight and look very thin as if lean mass is wasting. Recently I’ve been eating 100-110 grams of net carbs and averaging .5 ketones.
What do you think about these carbs?
Looking at your graphs I’d hazard a guess that you are in a great state of health don’t have T2 diabetes and can handle 100g of carbs a day and remain in ketosis.
Doesn’t really tell us much about your insulin levels though…
I can show glucose but not insulin, these are values just before eating around 7am
Unless you have subjected yourself to quite extensive and expensive testing none of us can unfortunately… But were my guesses correct as to your health status?
Well, I think your guesses are correct but that’s just my thinking, I’m 61 years old, don’t take any required medication, moderately active, sometimes extremely active, blood pressure usually 110/70 and thanks to the keto way of eating, my testosterone went from the 400s to the 600s. hdl went from 51 to 67 but ldl went up to around 150 I think it was but my ratio was 3.5. 140lbs down from 160, spare tire is gone
Sounds pretty damn good to me…
You could get your fasting insulin and insulin resistance tested privately if you are interested?
I use www.medichecks.com and get their insulin resistance test for £49.00
But that’s only if you want to know.
As an Ex T2 diabetic I like to get all my ducks in a row!
It does tell us that his insulin is fairly low, because too much insulin shuts off ketogenesis. Also his blood sugar is pretty stable, from that later post, so his insulin isn’t spiking unduly.
It’s worth bearing in mind that we only hate chronically elevated insulin. Insulin does a lot of good things in the body, and as the old experience of type I diabetes shows, a certain minimal level in the body is essential for life.
Awesome Mark and Paul thank you, I am thinking of getting everything blood tested and gene tested (once i turn 62 and have more cash) for now I’m doing my best to get the “low hanging fruit” of doing my best at what I can do to improve diet by getting as much vitamins and minerals from food and only supplementing where I think is necessary