Blood Ketone and Glucose Testing

rch02474

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Anyone else monitoring blood ketones? I use a Keto Mojo to track my ketones and blood sugar. I've had it for a while now and rarely ever need to verify I'm in ketosis, but I've started tracking again to see what peptides might impact these numbers.

For starters, even when keeping my net carbs very low, my fasting ketones are generally not very (0.7-1 mmol/L). I was also experiencing significant dawn effect where my glucose would be highest first thing in the morning and taper off throughout the day.

Going to skip over a short stint with reta because that's another story.

Then I started Tirz at 5 mg/wk and got some predictable results. Slightly lowered BG and ketones 1.2-2.

Started SS-31 and then MOTS-C at a fairly low dose (5mg/wk each with the SS31 split over 7 doses and 3 doses for MOTS-C) and surprisingly my blood ketones shot up past 3 mmol/L for the first time since I've been measuring. Not sure if this is just a result of cells being more sensitive to glucose uptake or what it could be. Fasted glucose was still in the 70s-80s.

Either way, I'm feeling pretty good and will continue to monitor and see how things go.
 
lastresort said:


Is that urine keto test?

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No, it's blood testing. It's a strip like a glucose test strip but specifically for ketones. Not cheap, but Keto Mojo is significantly cheaper than some of the other options and seems fairly accurate.
 
rch02474 said:


No, it's blood testing. It's a strip like a glucose test strip but specifically for ketones. Not cheap, but Keto Mojo is significantly cheaper than some of the other options and seems fairly accurate.

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I dind't know there was a strip for a blood test!
 
lastresort said:


I dind't know there was a strip for a blood test!

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Yep! There's actually a few, but the ones made by the more traditional blood glucose monitoring companies are really pricey. Not sure if insurance will cover those in most cases.

The Keto Mojo brand end up costing ~$1 per test once you include the separate glucose strip (I test them together a few times per week to calculate Glucose Ketone Index). I just stick myself 1x and make sure I get enough blood for both tests. There's some discount codes out there if you want to try it out and save a little $.
 
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