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Keto diet for type 1?

Yes, people (diabetics or not) often slide in and out of ketosis on a daily basis, overnight, or if they skip a meal.
The idea of being ‘kicked out’ of ketosis is a misnomer. It is more like a tidal flow, or a dial.
Amy Berger goes into it in some detail here - although she is not talking about T1s, the same principles of fat adaptation, glycogen storage and irrelevance of depth of ketosis (not talking about ketoacidosis, obviously!) will apply to everyone.
http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2016/01/dont-be-a-ketard1.html
 
Brunneria said:
Yes, people (diabetics or not) often slide in and out of ketosis on a daily basis, overnight, or if they skip a meal.
The idea of being ‘kicked out’ of ketosis is a misnomer. It is more like a tidal flow, or a dial.
Amy Berger goes into it in some detail here - although she is not talking about T1s, the same principles of fat adaptation, glycogen storage and irrelevance of depth of ketosis (not talking about ketoacidosis, obviously!) will apply to everyone.
http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2016/01/dont-be-a-ketard1.html
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The exception being those who are metabolically broken, permanently hyperinsulinemic, and thus find it impossible to burn any stored fat. But otherwise yes, it should be normal to ebb and flow between glycolysis and ketosis. Although one could argue that huge swathes of western populations probably do have have hyperinsulinemia, it's not really relevant here.
 
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