I'm keto and I didn't know it

wabmester

I've always suspected that you can be ketogenic on a lowish-carb diet (around 100g/d carb). Your brain needs that much glucose, so you should deplete glycogen stores pretty quickly. Just not as quickly as you hardcore LCHF folk.

Anyway, I decided to test my theory by getting some ketostix. I'm peeing about 40mg/dL of high-octane ketones. Purple power!

Sajyana

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GrannyMayOz

Ha ha. I love the way you arrived as as a questioner, if no a downright skeptic, and are now admitting to being 'the full monty'. And that you are doing it in your own way is how things should be

However, I think you may need to retreat to a bunker suggesting that those of us under 100g carbs are 'brain deficient' I see some more sharing of ideas and data coming up

wabmester

Thanks for tolerating my rants. I'm still skeptical about LCHF for most of the reasons I whined about before, but I feel like I now know the secret handshake.

I probably spend most of my time out of ketosis and only generate significant ketones on relatively low-carb days (I was at around 50g when I tested today). Still, it's cool to know I can generate ketones without any unpleasant side effects (so far).

I'm tempted to do some reaction-time tests to see if my brain is working better or worse. I think my spelling is slightly better.

kirkor

Dehydration and MCT oil can cause false positives on ketostix.

wabmester

I don't eat MCT or coconuts. Hydration seems fine per skin response and urine color. Not really interested in doing blood tests to verify. In fact, I'm not convinced there's a huge benefit to being in ketosis -- just interested in the brain effects.

I would be interested if I can drop IGF-1 levels, but only after I'm done building a little muscle.