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<blockquote data-quote="Pneu" data-source="post: 324133" data-attributes="member: 28827"><p>No worries Instanity type I's often hear Ketosis or Keytones and instantly worry! </p><p></p><p>Keytones are a by product of when our body has to burn fat rather than carbohydrate to generate energy.. in a type I they are often associated with DKA because the body has no insulin it is forced to burn fat generating keytones which then turns into a run-away cycle of dehydration; high blood glucose and a whole load of hurt.. it is a natural cycle that gets out of control due to the lack of insulin. </p><p></p><p>If you eat few or limited carbohydrates then you put your body into this state of ketosis where it is burns fat, producing keytones.. in its self this is not dangerous and is a perfectly normal state to be in.. As long as you continue to take background insulin and keep yourself hydrated then you will have no problems.. exactly like any normal person would have no problems eating a low carb diet. </p><p></p><p>Now to explain the protein.. our body has a glucose requirement; specifically your brain which for certain functions can not use fatty acids as fuel.. as such if you are not eating carbohydrate and therefore have a limited supply of glucose it needs to get this glucose from somewhere.. it does this by converting protein in to glucose. </p><p></p><p>So what I meant by my post was this... for stable blood glucose your best to do one or the other.. so you are either always covering protein (low carb say sub 80g / day) or never covering protein (higher carb say 150+g / day).. if your somewhere in the middle you may find sometimes you need to and sometimes you don't which will as you have found out cause all sorts of headaches managing your blood glucose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pneu, post: 324133, member: 28827"] No worries Instanity type I's often hear Ketosis or Keytones and instantly worry! Keytones are a by product of when our body has to burn fat rather than carbohydrate to generate energy.. in a type I they are often associated with DKA because the body has no insulin it is forced to burn fat generating keytones which then turns into a run-away cycle of dehydration; high blood glucose and a whole load of hurt.. it is a natural cycle that gets out of control due to the lack of insulin. If you eat few or limited carbohydrates then you put your body into this state of ketosis where it is burns fat, producing keytones.. in its self this is not dangerous and is a perfectly normal state to be in.. As long as you continue to take background insulin and keep yourself hydrated then you will have no problems.. exactly like any normal person would have no problems eating a low carb diet. Now to explain the protein.. our body has a glucose requirement; specifically your brain which for certain functions can not use fatty acids as fuel.. as such if you are not eating carbohydrate and therefore have a limited supply of glucose it needs to get this glucose from somewhere.. it does this by converting protein in to glucose. So what I meant by my post was this... for stable blood glucose your best to do one or the other.. so you are either always covering protein (low carb say sub 80g / day) or never covering protein (higher carb say 150+g / day).. if your somewhere in the middle you may find sometimes you need to and sometimes you don't which will as you have found out cause all sorts of headaches managing your blood glucose. [/QUOTE]
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