Just been searching for an explanation of what ketone levels do after exercise as I'm still a bit unsure. My levels tend to rise a few hours after exercise and then drop off again. For some reason I felt this was wrong but having read into it, it seems like it's right?
This is the post I read:
Ketones are used by the body as energy. I experimented and measured ketones directly before weight training and my level was 2.2mmol, and 15. Minutes after my weight training It measured 0.6mmol. I then rested for the following 2 hours with no food and tested again and got 4.2mmol.
This tells me that during exercise my body used ketones as fuel, which is the exact effect we all are wanting. That left a lower tank of ketone fuel in my blood. However the weight training raised my resting metabolic rate and got my engine reving for the next few hours by breaking down more fat and producing more ketones. And since I was resting and not burning them as energy, my tank filled up and I got a reading of 4.2mmol. And my mouth got all dry at that point and my breath had odour, as the ketones I wasn’t burning had to come out somewhere, as they can’t be stored as fat again.
So if you took your ketone reading using a glucose tear once per day (after exercise or a physical day at work) then you would always have a low reading, which would mislead you into thinking you are doing something wrong or aren’t in ketosis.
But you would have been just using the ketones up as fast as you make them.
Is this a good explanation to what should be happening? Cheers
This is the post I read:
Ketones are used by the body as energy. I experimented and measured ketones directly before weight training and my level was 2.2mmol, and 15. Minutes after my weight training It measured 0.6mmol. I then rested for the following 2 hours with no food and tested again and got 4.2mmol.
This tells me that during exercise my body used ketones as fuel, which is the exact effect we all are wanting. That left a lower tank of ketone fuel in my blood. However the weight training raised my resting metabolic rate and got my engine reving for the next few hours by breaking down more fat and producing more ketones. And since I was resting and not burning them as energy, my tank filled up and I got a reading of 4.2mmol. And my mouth got all dry at that point and my breath had odour, as the ketones I wasn’t burning had to come out somewhere, as they can’t be stored as fat again.
So if you took your ketone reading using a glucose tear once per day (after exercise or a physical day at work) then you would always have a low reading, which would mislead you into thinking you are doing something wrong or aren’t in ketosis.
But you would have been just using the ketones up as fast as you make them.
Is this a good explanation to what should be happening? Cheers
