Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Keto and High Blood Glucose
I was wearing the Abbott Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors when I started Keto and Intermittent Fasting. They showed my blood glucose going down toward normal consistently. After the incident in my previous post, I also started checking with blood. The blood monitors(I have 3 now, 2 from my insurance provider and a POGO. I'll do a post on the POGO in the future. It's cool. I mean who doesn't want a Revolver vs a single shot?) show consistently high in the morning. 175 ish. I've researched it and the posts I found on it say that it happens when you convert to Keto, and to not worry too much unless it lasts a long time.
I'm doing almost zero carbs keto. I eat cheese, heavy cream, nuts, etc that have a few carbs, but my intake should be well below 20 g a day. The articles I've found say it isn't food intake , but my liver processing my fat that is increasing my blood glucose level, combined with my muscles not wanting the glucose because they've converted to using Ketones for energy. Hard to know if it's true(anyone can post anything they want on the internet), but I'm just going to trust the process for awhile and see if it fixes itself.
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