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Pittsburg, Kansas | If I can ask, what was your ketone reading?
The best answer I have is I don't know. It sure seems like I have read something about that but can not recall it right off hand.
I have never had high ketone levels when I tested but the longest fast I have ever done is like 40 hours. Plus I am diabetic so it is harder for me to begin with to get insulin levels low enough so the body switches modes. About 2 is as high as I have ever seen on my ketone meter.
There is a lot of controversy over nutritional ketone levels. Some think there are benefits to having high levels, others say as long as you are in ketosis you are gaining the benefits. I can see arguments for both sides. From one point of view it makes no more sense having high ketones in the blood stream than it does high glucose levels. Or in the urine for that matter. It would be logical to me that the body would try to match energy supply in the blood stream with energy requirements.
If I run accross something I will post it. I just don't know. Maybe someone else does.
Edit: After thinking about it a bit, my non-medical advice thought would be that it would greatly depend on what your first refeeding meal consisted of. If it was protein that contained carnatine (red meat) it might actually add to the ketone production that was already taking place from your body fat production of ketones. Same goes if it was fat (ingested food goes to the front of the line to be metabolized). But if you ate a high carb refeed I would expect it to spike insulin and clamp down on glucagon, shutting off ketone production. That is just the way I see it in my minds eye based on how Bikman explains how insulin/glucagon works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3fO5aTD6JU One of his best presentations ever.
Not medical advice, not any advice at all, just discussion about a topic of common interest.
John
Edited by John Burns 2/10/2020 05:50
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