Peter Attia· MD
Morning BHB & glucose levels about 60 hours into 3-day fast.
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Morning BHB & glucose levels about 60 hours into 3-day fast.
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the most interesting thing here obviously is the ketones now all of a sudden get to be much higher levels these weren't even my highest levels sometimes but these were the ones that I was always checking first thing in the morning and last thing at night sometimes during the day I would do spot checks and have even higher levels but I don't think I I think I only once got above seven millimolar on BHB the other thing you'll notice is how quickly that seven day trailing average CGM starts to go down such that by the last day of the fast it's 79 milligrams per deciliter so it's fallen almost twenty milligrams per deciliter in average during that period of time and again that just reflects the fact that you're gonna you're gonna find an equilibrium pretty quickly and I suspect had I got on even longer it probably would have centered out I would guess around 70
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