Note to self: nobody cares about blood sugar and ketone levels ✅


until they have to.


Are those the little packages you get at gas stations, dip a little stick in and eat?


Inb4 diabeetus


I care about them? Anyone can get the tools and learn to check and understand vitals. It can guide us toward diet and lifestyle changes to better take care of our bodily system holistically


I'm into hydroxybutyrate tbh


Is there an easy, at home way to measure that? 🤔


I learned soooo much by using a continuous glucose monitor. Not for diabetes or any other reason other than learning more about my body. Seriously changed my health (and diet).


Soooo cool. I learned that I tend to run average to borderline hypoglycemia, but it’s kind of regardless of diet? So I’m looking into hormonal imbalances now


Ohhh, have you heard of the dutch test? Really good to see hormonal cycles thru the month 🤌


if your in deep ketosis your going to be running on that.  its the primary ketone body.


Yes so I measure ketones and BHB is included but didnt know if you measure that alone?


My poop tells me all I need to know 😂


Soooo true!! I track with this once or twice a year just to pop in and see. Big nerd.


I’m the unhealthiest frog in the land

I should care more tbh


not that i know of.  but in a fasted state the brain is running primarily, like <90% , on bhb.  so if you fast and are not active it will be pure good shit.  if you excersize while fasted you will be increasing the other ketone bodies.


Unless you are a diabetic and your toes are about to fall of.


NOOO, but I will certainly look it up! Thanks friend🫂 the world of hormones is relatively new territory for me


Did you get the microbiome fecal test????! It’s totally on my wish list 🤣


I do. I'm not nobody, though.


Ohhh, i did not know that difference! 🙏 and what do you consider deep ketosis? Like how many mmol/L? The keto mojo also uses GKI, which is a glucose ketone index and I find that helpful.


If you wait till then to care, you are literally ngmi 🫂💜


Yeah, DM if you need more info! 🫂💜


An elite nobody 😤🫂💜


the deeper the better but if your in ketosis you will be using bhb in order for the brain to function


with a sharp nose i notice immediately on the next visit to the toilet...

just had mince for dinner tonight also, first time in a while, actual beef... so i'm gonna be curious to see how i am tonight and tomorrow... milk, cheese and wine i'm borderline but then i added earthing and i'm getting my visual convergence back in a big way and i'm quite tired of this dibeetus stuff, like, ok, about to go full retard on it


Oh oops, misread your note 🫠


I think one of the big companies is releasing an OTC GCM that also measures ketones. Just FYI.

One of the carnivore YouTubers I follow mentioned something about that.


Got it 🫡🙏


It's intentionally dorky, so... It's all good. 😎😁🫂


It would be amazeballs if they made CGMs OTC with ketones 🤯


BHB makes you think clearer?


After I buy a new car (not new, but, you know, new to me), I might be getting one, as I'm curious, though, I don't know if I need to since I now can tell when I'm in ketosis based on how my saliva tastes. (Look up "keto breath.")


Oh yeah, very aware of keto breath 🫠😂 i track bc i like to experiment. See what diff foods do. How far i can push it basically.


Man, i gotta ask, what the hell are you eating? I am worried for you 🫂💜😂


yes 100%


What does full retard look like? 🤔


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For real though


Ketones are strong anti inflammatories. So any presence of brain inflammation/fog seems to clear up immediately for me.


Oh lort 😂


My body is a temple


I'm not exactly healthy enough metabolically to experiment yet, though, I am finally able to discern some signals my body is giving me, like I recently discovered that mozzarella cheese will kick me out of ketosis. Butter doesn't.


My wife went pretty close to a lion diet and on day 10 we checked her glucose and ketones with the ketomojo, her glucose was 34mg/dl and her ketones were at 5.1mmol/L. She felt great.


what is the smoothest way to transition to ketogenic? fasting? do you have a go-to thing you can share about how to get there reliably?


plz keep updating the journey, 4 a luved 1 i'm getting a little concerned, borderline also


i have started earthing recently and i believe that being deficient in electrons increases susceptibility to oxidative radicals and it's definitely shifting the momentum for me


yes fasting.


it's really nasty disease... flips your world upside down... i got it to stop by switching to a milk diet but i need to go full on into fasting and ketosis to claw back my life


Holy shizz...34?! 🤯 mine has never been that low! Wow, thanks for sharing 🙏 were you at all worried of seizure? They say below 50 is seizure territoey, but with this anecdote, it seems that is only in the presence of no ketones...fuel is fuel.


Getting into fasting and keto can be difficult and having a community is helpful 🫂💜


check/?'s coming


Yessss! I have been checking out earthing.com and eyeing one of those sheet sets bc i find it so beneficial


basically, it balances your electrostatic charge to neutral and prevents absorption of radio frequency into your body (it just conducts over your skin to the earth)

this diminishes the damage from oxidative and reductive free radicals as they are more likely to encounter their counterpart in the water of your body and be neutralised

it does definitely have an effect on reducing inflammation, and it dialed back a problem i have that was getting worse just before i got my mat and bed sheet, quite bad double vision from type 2 diabetes, it almost immediately fully reverted at first, now it is stabilised and i am not having as much trouble reading or looking at details up close


good deal, t-y all!


also, in theory it should reduce the health damage from ionising radiation too, like X, gamma, cosmic rays, because most of what they do is adding electrons to free radicals that then penetrate to mess up DNA or proteins and with the earth connection it probably goes the other way as well, so if you get excess electrons they are dissipated


I have been sleeping on one for a year now. Recommend 👍


noted


Did you get it from somewhere else or from earthing.com?


Yeah, when those solar flares happened a few weeks back, I was tired af for a few days. Related?


most likely, yes it was pretty taxing, and it's only going to get worse, we are in a record solar maximum still that keeps going up, apparently (it's the earth's shield going down, in fact)


Yeah, I had gotten this when it was on sale like it is now. I mostly just use the sleep mat now though. I forget I even still have the patches.

https://www.earthing.com/collections/all/products/essentials-kit


obviously if the ionising radiation particle hits your DNA direct then it's toast, damage is done, but i'm pretty sure that imbalance of electrostatics has an effect of increasing disease


Sleep mat seems easiest. You convinced me to order. Elite influencer now ✅


Ah yeah 😎


🫠 ordering an earthing mat for sleep quickfast


"they" tend to not have an effing clue.

If you're not keto adapted and your blood sugar drops very quickly (can happen if you bugger up an insulin dose), that's when you can have adverse effects.

I've not heard of anyone on carnivore with very low blood glucose having seizures, and, in fact, that seems to eliminate or greatly reduce seizures.


Yes, you should.


I really want to know what you find.

A friend has accidentally done A-B-A testing when her mat got unplugged without her knowing it and she had a pretty bad night's sleep. Then it got way better after she plugged it back in.


Reduce your carb intake moderately over the course of 1-3 weeks.


Except obese diabetics. Or they don’t. Some people have a deathwish.


I think Keto was used for treatment of epilepsy before meds were invented so males sense


Yup. Especially high fat ratio keto, as protien can spike your blood sugar through glucogenesis. Fat can't be turned into glucose, in my understanding.


Not at all, she was in deep ketosis so no worries. The brain actually functions great on ketones, of course there will always be a need for some glucose for proper brain function but we don't need as much glucose as most people think. There have been cases of people having their glucose as low as 20mg/dL while in deep ketosis.


Yeah, I guess I never considered the 50mg/dL advice was only if not in the presence of other fuel (ketones). Thank you for sharing this! I def learned something! 🙏🤙


canivore


You can do it! But for me, Ifind adding in broccoli, brusselsprouts, cauliflower, asparagus, cheese, heavy cream, and pickled stuff makes it much more sustainable. Let us know how this goes tho! You have totally got this! 🏆


Doc, if I may ask, what is your take on people (specifically women but I guess applies to males too) staying carnivore long term and any effect on estrogen levels? My understanding is the body processes excess estrogen from the liver and into fiber in the colon and out it goes. Is there is no fiber, then would it get recycled or broken down some other way? 🙏


Hey, no problem, ask away. There aren't any studies that I'm aware of that look into the effects of the carnivore diet long term in relation to sex hormones. But generally, ketogenic diets have shown to reduce the level of estrogens circulating in the blood, most likely due to the loss of adipose tissue (a source of estrogen production), therefore resulting in a lowering of aromatase activity in fat tissue (aromatase is an enzyme that converts androgens to estrogens).

So it seems excess estrogen isn't a problem while on a carnivore diet, for both men and women, it's actually a way of reversing gynecomastia in men. The liver metabolizes estrogens into conjugated estrogens, making them more watersoluble and then eliminating them mainly through the kidneys but also through biliary excretion. Some of the conjugated estrogens in the bile can then be deconjugated by bacterial enzymes in the gut and reabsorbed. Fiber can help reduce some of this reabsorbtion, but that might be "helpful" for people on a SAD diet, where they might actually have excess estrogen. That doesn't seem to be the case on carnivore. Cheers!

TLDR: It doesn't seem excess estrogen is a problem on a ketogenic diet, therefore it would probably be even less of a problem on carnivore. Also, most of estrogens are eliminated through the kidneys and not the bile, so no worries about reabsorption there.


I would recommend transitioning over a period of at least 6 weeks.


nostr:npub12mx9etcam5cjrpv3p6duqucmff23jeznksll5523fhp6hl6m8mqs83zem9 we got an answer from the good doc 🤙


Thank you, doc! I have been wondering this for months and couldn't find an exact answer 🙏🤙


I've watched plenty of videos with doctors explaining various estrogen-related topics in connection with low-carb diets, and what impresses me the most is the amount of symptoms and hardships connected with menopause and infertility that are reversed or alleviated.

My overall take is that eating a proper human diet helps to bring estrogen and testosterone into balance, in both men and women.

But I must admit, that was a great answer!


That is what always baffled me about what another practitioner warned me about estrogen and keto. My body does exceptionally well with low carb; my experience contradicted his info. But I thought, well maybe short term it is okay, but longer term, it would not be 🤔 It was very confirming and comforting to have Dr. Morales' explanation. 🙏🤙