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had another interesting question that I

want to talk about what’s more important

testing your ketones or glucose very

good question so let’s first take a look

at glucose when you test your glucose

realize this the lower the blood glucose

the higher amount of ketones that your

body is going to run on okay the higher

the glucose the lower amount of ketones

that your body can produce so really

what controls ketones in the amount of

ketones is this glucose level so if you

just had glucose as one way to monitor

this and everything was low then you’re

pretty much going to be in ketosis okay

now when you start out you might have a

blood sugar of 80 okay

some people have higher some people have

lower but as you do ketosis you’re gonna

find that it goes lower and lower okay

so you might think that oh my gosh am i

developing hypoglycemia no especially if

you’re feeling great now if you have low

blood sugars and you feel kind of funky

and your blood sugars are low then

probably you have that condition but

there’s a really good video that I put a

link down below on that topic just if

you have a question because I think

that’s a real important one but yeah you

can have normal blood Sugar’s at 60 and

feel great because you’re doing keto and

your body is running in ketones not

glucose anymore so there’s not that huge

need to run on glucose but here’s the

problem

there’s something called a dawn

phenomena and that happens for a couple

reasons

usually it’s because you’re a

pre-diabetic or you have insulin

resistance which is very common and as

you go on keto and you lower the carb

and you do intimate fasting you’re

lowering your carbohydrates you’re

lowering your glucose you are actually

going to decrease your insulin levels

right well because you have insulin

resistance your insulin is already

dysfunctional okay and it takes a bit of

time to correct this so if you lower

your insulin and you already have

insulin dysfunction which means it’s

just not it’s not working anymore it’s

not pushing the blood sugars down guess

what the sugar might

come up for that reason alone and this

is why over time this gets healed okay

so that’s one reason the next reason is

cortisol that’s a hormone by the adrenal

and it grunts in a wave and the highest

spike of that is at eight o’clock in the

morning so right around a it could be

like seven it could be nine in the

morning you might have a spike in

cortisol and cortisol has the tendency

to release glucose which then can spike

spike the glucose which then will come

down but if you have high levels of

cortisol from stress that could be why

now there’s a thing called gluco neo

that means new Genesis so it’s the

body’s ability to make new glucose your

body even if you don’t eat any carbs can

easily make glucose out of ketones out

of fat and out of protein so that’s

really what happens when you have this

higher blood sugar in the morning if you

have it it’s like it wasn’t something

that you ate yesterday necessarily it

may have been but if he had no carbs

it’s because your body’s making it out

of other things it’s not a problem it

will go away over time but these are the

explanations of it so let me just ship

two ketones so when you actually check

your ketones you can check them in the

blood through your breath to the urine I

always recommend starting out checking

your urine ketones simply because it’s

less expensive and it’s a good thing to

start out with but as you start doing

ketosis and your body’s more efficient

and it’s using up the ketones you’re not

wasting them in the urine or the breath

anymore

then it won’t show up anymore in the

urine or the breath it will show up in

the blood though so these are good in

the beginning but blood is the best one

long-term so realize that ketones

provide like 30 to 38 percent of the

fuel in the body 50 to 60 percent of the

fuel is going to be from fatty acids

that you’re not going to test through

your testing methods through here so

even though sometimes your ketones are

low it doesn’t mean you’re not burning

that okay it’s just you’re not able to

test it and if your body needs glucose

which it does need a small amount for

different parts of the brain the eye and

the blood and the red blood cell it can

very easily make what it needs and the

reason I’m bringing it up is that if you

have the dawn phenomena and this sugar

is a little higher that could actually

lower the ketones but it’s not from

carbs that you’re eating it’s it’s

actually called endogenous your body’s

making them from other things so I

wouldn’t necessarily worry if you’re

doing keto and then fasting and your

ketones show low it’s because of this

reason right here and you have instant

resistance so my long-winded answer is

that I think if we compare these glucose

is a little more important to test than

ketones but I’d like to recommend

testing them both just to kind of

understand what’s happening and the

significance of each one but this will

give you a good picture but if it goes

high and you’re not eating carbohydrates

realize you’re getting this stuff right

here one last point let’s say for

example you’re trying to do I don’t know

ketosis in a minute fasting because you

have Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or some

problem with the brain or your heart

okay it’s important to know how high

these ketones are going and you might

want to take ketones in which case like

like MCT oil your ketones are going to

be very very high so by taking more

ketones obviously when you test it it’s

gonna be off off the charts it’s gonna

be a lot so you’re not going to be able

to evaluate if your body’s making those

ketones or it’s coming from MCT oil the

only point I’m making with that is you

want to differentiate the two and if you

have a brain problem or a heart problem

diet wise you want to get your carbs as

low as possible maybe even close to zero

and also do fasting as long as you can

to really max out the benefits of

ketones alright thanks for watching so

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