"Ketosis is NOT a dangerous."
Please reread or talk to a doctor - " During ketosis, the body forms substances known as ketones, which can cause organs to fail and result in gout, kidney stones, or kidney failure."
"the two are different things"
Not entirely. Ketoacidosis is an increase in fat metabolism because of a shortage of insulin, mostly associated with t1's. Ketosis is an elevated level of ketones.
Hi,
A lower calorie balanced diet is very effective for weight loss. A low carb diet causes the body to go into Ketosis whereby the body uses its fat as a source of energy. Also when you are in ketosis your body feels less hungry. This all sounds good except that this can also lead to kidney issues (even failure), osteoporosis, and kidney stones.
Stay balanced and control your calories and you'll lose weight and avoid the side effects.
Good luck.
Dietary Ketosis has nothing to do with BG until your liver runs out of stored glucagon it can continue to raise BG (ie 8 - 10 hour high when fasting) how low are you going on the carbs? you can be in Ketosis with high BG. Ketosis means your body is using ketones for fuel instead of glucose. Diabetesforum(dot)com has many people doing diatery Ketosis.
This is an absolute no carb diet. Only meat, fats, and some cheese. Not even vegitables as they contain trace amounts of carbs. No fruit either.
In two weeks your body will go into a state of ketosis. This means that because your body has no carbs that the Liver prouduces Ketones.
Ketones love to use body fat for fuel. This is your bodies way of saying "no more carbs to burn, must make Keytones to use fat as fuel."
The first two weeks on the diet is hell.
t help you burn fat (unless you are starving yourself), just water loss and muscle (protien stores) and low carb diets are very unhealthy for you, puts you into a state of ketosis, which creates ketones that are very toxic to your kidney and liver.
To lose fat you need to eat healthy, gain muscle (muscle is your metabolism) and do aerobic cardio and sometimes implement intense cardio, such as HIIT.
You need to do more than just go on a diet.
I have been Experiencing a pretty nasty skin rash on my chest, Lower back, under arms and stomach since I have stated a low-carb diet. When I noticed the rash about 6 months ago I was just trying the program for the first time and neither myself or my doctor connected the two together. After about 2 weeks of induction (less than 20 carbs per day) I began to slowly reintroduce foods back into my diet and the rash began to fade away.
To manage blood sugars you need medication (probably insulin) combined with low carb diet and exercise. Do not eat sweets, breads, rice, candies, fruit, fruit juice when your sugars are so high.
If you are feeling very bad or if the sugars do not go down to the 100s within a few hours please go to the ER for immediate treatment. IN any case contact your doctor asap.
Low carb diets have been shown to be unhealthy long-term. Veggies are all carbs. Fruits are carbs. Complex carbs such as whole grains are the best source of long-term energy. Too much protein, especially animal protein, can cause kidney problems and is linked to a higher rate of cardiovascular disease.
I was excercisin religiously and watching my carb intake.i was eating between 100 to 150gms of carbs. I was not on a ketogenic diet. After that visit i have been extremely ill. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. blood sugar dropping rapidly when after exercise. My doctor said it could be the phentermine but that the metformin xr could also be reacting to the phentermine. I stoped the metformin, felt better then my sugar started going up.
I just now looked up the keto diet and thyroid problems - it looks like very low carb intake (ketosis) is associated with lower free T3 levels and may prevent T4 from being converted in to T3, but if you are doing a "low carb" version without giving up carbs completely, you should be ok. (And taking supplemental hormone should help you get to the right level of T3 even if you are in ketosis).
I might also have some sugar free (0 carb) jello with some Heavy Whipping Cream on top. I drink diet drinks without Caffeine and try to drink some water but I don't like water all that much so that's about the only thing that I could be doing better. Other than that...I don't cheat, no sugar sneaks.
This may be ketosis or in your case post exercise ketosis. You smell like acetone in a ketosis state . This is as close as i can find to nail polish; acetone is an ingredient in nail polish remover.
The reason for ketosis is due to not enough glucose and so the body has to break down stored fat and convert it into energy instead. Metabolizing fat raises blood ketone levels therefore leading to ketosis.
I leveled off for over a year and ended up gaining 15 lbs back eating well under my maintenance level 90% of the time and then last July I started a low carb diet, in 10 months excluding water weight I lost about 13 lbs. During this time I didn't exercise as much but I really watched the carbs and calories and ate around 1800 - 2000 a day plus some light exercising a few times a week due to a injury I was trying to nurse.
Low carb no carb diet! It's perfectly safe.
t say what you mean by a low carb diet. I assume you mean a high protein diet, but those diets have very little clinical evidence behind them -- for most of history the only people who ate a high protein diet were those who settled in places where plant food didn't grow. They got used to it but didn't live very long, either. When they were conquered, though, and fed a lot of grains, many got diabetes.
I have no beef with anything going on here, just wanted to clarify some things that are often misstated these days (not necessarily on here). The Japanese and Scandinavians have the longest life spans right now and the best health, and both cultures consume a lot of grain. The macrobiotic diet is very grain based, probably because it's based largely on Japanese principles. The much lauded Mediterranean diets are all full of grains.
Hi,
ketone level of 1+ is not very high, though it is detectable. The fact that your blood sugar is totally normal at 83 means that the ketones you saw are from what is known as 'nutritional or metabolic ketosis'. This is not dangerous, in fact it is normal and a healthy response of the body to fasting, or to eating high fat low carb meals.
When you fly be sure to drink plenty of water. Flying, with the dry air, is very dehydrating.
why not to do this type of diet for 2 weeks, then let your body to adjust (and perhaps to get used to) your new state, perhaps to gain a bit of water and weight back, and then repeat this operation 4-6-8 times, as needed. My reasoning is that it could be milder on the body, less taxing for the kidneys. Perhaps it would cost more, but right now I am not considering this side of the diet.
2 in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows the low carb high fat diet excels for weight loss and heart health. The low fat diet saw more lean muscle lost than body fat. Good tip: avoid low fat everything. :)
"People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows.
caregiver222's advice is logical. If for some reason you can't afford the test, try the Slow Carb Diet. The name is misleading, it should be called the Slow Carb Nutritional Program! You can stay on it for the rest of your life! If you own an iPhone - the apps are free online. You can order it online as a hardcover or an eBook. Basically, you can everything except for "White Carbohydrates" .... Bread, potatoes, fruits, rice & noodles - for example!
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