Consuming ketone esters that increase blood ketones above 1.5-2 millimolar can trigger an insulin spike, leading to hypoglycemia and hypocetosis. — Whalespan
Consuming ketone esters that increase blood ketones above 1.5-2 millimolar can trigger an insulin spike, leading to hypoglycemia and hypocetosis.
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“So the increase seems to be proportional to the differential. So if you rapidly increase ketones 2 millmer and if you stay under 2 millmer then you don't get the spike in insulin. But if you consume it and you get above 1.5 to 2 millmer, at least in me and a few other people that did this, then you see this counter regulatory dump in insulin.”
“And that would also explain when people drink a large dose of a ketoester, their glucose levels go down. And it's a bit of a scary situation because I know people have gotten themselves into the situation is that when you drink the ketoester about two hours later or thereabouts, you can be hypoglycemic and also hypoctootic, which means your ketones come up, you utilize them as fuel, but you've released insulin peripheral glucose disposal, and then you get into a point where you're running, for example, and then you tank because you don't have and you can it could trigger a headache. it could I mean as it does with me uh if you take a large dose”