Over the years, I have communicated with sugar friends in my own group, or the messages that sugar friends on the Internet have given me, I have roughly counted it, and the first few words that everyone uses more frequently are: sugar, fat, ketones.
Among them, the more strange is this "ketone" word, if it is not a doctor, and there is no effort to study, ordinary people usually have difficulty using this word. Only people who pay attention to diabetes, weight loss, and people who have worked hard to learn will be particularly sensitive to this word. Ketones are sugar fallen people, why should they have known each other, so we must praise the spirit of self-help of sugar friends!
However, the word ketone often appears in the above context, and when it comes to ketogenic diets, ketones are generally presented as unblemished positive words. When it comes to ketoacids, ketones are a complete villain.
Unlike sugar and fertilizer, ketones are closer to a neutral word, neither good nor bad, it is a normal phenomenon in physiological processes, and it is an inevitable intermediate product of the fat burning process.
When we burn fat as an energy source, we all have to be more or less associated with ketones.
Sugar friends are often easy to associate ketones and ketoacids, and then trace them upwards, and then associate high-fat low-carbon diets with ketoacid problems, which is inevitably a bit hopeful, completely scaring themselves.
In fact, on the contrary, a normal high-fat low-carb diet does not cause ketoacid problems, and high carbohydrates are the bane.
The so-called ketoacid problem is that fat burns rapidly, ketone is produced too much, and it cannot be completely discharged because of physical reasons, resulting in a large amount of accumulation. Because the ketone body has a slight acidity, when the ketone level exceeds 10mml/L or more, it is possible to break the acid-base balance. If it exceeds 20mmol/L, then ketoacid is really a problem.
Normal people's ketone levels can be from 0-3mml/L, less than 0.6mml/L is low ketone levels, 0.6~1.5mml/L is low to medium ketone levels, 1.6~3.0mml/L normal high ketone body levels, that is, sugar friends and weight loss friends pursue the best ketogenic level. 3-10mml/L is very high, but it is still not a health-threatening ketone level, that is, the level of ketogenic in a hungry state.
What is the concept of more than 10mml/L? A person who does not eat at all for 3 days is 10mml/L, and the average person is basically about to GAME OVER at that time.
Therefore, a high-fat low-carb diet may lead to ketoacid problems, unless there is a specific function, it will not happen.
Instead, a high-carb diet is more likely to cause ketoacid problems. Because high carbohydrates cause blood sugar to soar, the body becomes very chaotic, becomes very confused, the body requires fat to provide energy, and can not burn fat normally, causing a large amount of ketoacid accumulation.
This is the result of the extreme wasting of diabetics while our blood sugar remains high, while the concentration of ketones continues to increase.
This situation is the most common in ketoacid problems, as long as you go to search engines to find ketoacid problems, the first is caused by diabetes, followed by excessive alcohol, and then hungry ketoacid problems. Whether you're a proponent of a high-fat low-carb diet or not, you really don't see the ketoacid problems caused by eating too much meat.
However, some friends will carry out ketogenic diets or even fasting because of the pursuit of faster and more obvious hypoglycemic or weight loss effects, because everyone's body is very different, it is still necessary to be vigilant, and I recommend paying some attention to ketone levels in this process.
In fact, it is also very simple, there are several ways, the most convenient is the blood glucose meter, the blood glucose meter generally has this function, we would have also to monitor blood sugar, nothing more than to see an indicator is it, believe who is better than believe in themselves, the indicator can explain everything!