This was certainly helpful, I had been frustrated with trying to get higher Ketone level (not to high as it would be dangerous for me personally) there was a lot of insight and certainly given me things to think about. My only constructive criticism is that it would be nice to have mmol/L readings along side with Mg/dl as not all of us are acustomed to Mg/dl especially among the diabetic community. This would be really beneficial and to cover all basis for all who watch your insightful videos. Thanks for your efforts and keeping things interesting.

Great video just checked my gki 3.4 with the Keto-Mojo I’m now down 114 lbs in under a year thanks for all information you provided over this crazy year much appreciated

I’ve been on a ketogenic diet for over three years, never consuming more than 20g of carbohydrate and consuming large amounts of fat. I do HIT strength training and Sprint intervals for ‘cardio’. I’m 6’ and weigh 175. Physiologic insulin resistance has made it so that my blood sugar NEVER goes much below 90, and my ketones are rarely above 1. For that reason, I couldn’t care less about the GKI, because it will never be good for me. Yet I’m extremely healthy (fasting trigs under 40, HDL 58+). Don’t care about GKI, unless I end up with cancer.

You read my mind, friend. I bought my new Keto-Mojo meter 2 weeks ago and it arrived 3 days ago. I have been measuring for the last 3 days right before my first meal, and right before my last meal of the day. I have been looking for this exact video! So far my measurements have been within the 1.5-3.0 range on ketones, which has been motivating to keep going. Thanks for the video!

Yay!!! 3 weeks I have dropped 8 lbs so far on ketogenic dieting . Thank you 🙏 for all your videos

You have saved my spirit!!! Thank you. I was getting so down for my low ketone readings.

Dropped 300 pounds on this diet. But, the pandemic came to town and destroyed my progress. 😀. I’m not sure what I weigh. Because, I refuse to get on the scale. But, I know that I gained a lot back. However, I am starting over.

Really appreciate your energy and dedication. You should definitely do a vid on continuous glucose monitoring in the future (LEVELS, Dexcom G6, Abbott Freestyle Libre)

So true! Different people respond differently to certain foods. There is no one size fits all for ketone level responses to specific foods

I just purchased my Keto-Mojo after watching this. Really cool device! I also noticed glucose levels going up when I am stressed . Now I just need to find ways to be less stressed in my day to day life :D

Always appreciate the useful info.

Thank you for this video and all the other ones. Been soaking up information from your channel for a week or so now. I started with a 3 day fast then decided to go straight into keto since my body was already primed for that. Had the urine strips but decided to get the keto mojo using your referral code as a small way of giving back. Keep crushing it man! Youre doing an amazing job on sharing knowledge and thats awesome!

I experienced what you are talking about. Great content, thanks.

I rarely see high ketones. I tend to be at 0.5-0.7 mmol. I have only seen readings over 1.0 when I have cut my protein intake in half of my usual but I find I am miserable eating that low of protein.

Dr Boz(Annette Bosworth, MD) has come up with a ratio, Glucose divided by Ketones, to come up with a ratio which she coins the Dr Boz Ratio. Of course you still need to track blood ketones and blood glucose levels to come up with the proper ratio.

Well this was very conveniently timed 😅 was just having anxiety over my levels

Unequivocally the best explanation I've heard!

Are ketones really important to monitor? Ive dont keto lost 55 lbs and never checked my ketones and felt great.

Been on the keto diet almost two weeks now, keto flu was brutal the first week but starting to feel better. Did an 18 hour fast today and tested ketones for the first time and was .4, pretty frustrating, but will continue the diet and fasting and hope it improves.

"I'll skip the nerdy science." Noooo! I love watching your videos because of all the nerdy science. Down 14 lbs of fat and up 2.5 lbs of muscle in 4 months. 7% body fat gone!

Question: when should you be testing? AM vs PM? Before a meal vs after a meal?

THIS... is such an important missing piece of the puzzle for many of us. I'm returning my monitor that only looks at ketones and I just ordered this one that does both.

I'm so discouraged I've been following my macros to a tee like you suggested in your keto beginner video and last night my ketone was 0.5 and today it was 0.1

Can you speak to how physiological insulin resistance and keto-adaptation might play into GKI readings? For instance when I'm in ketosis for several months my ketosis numbers begin to fall even while doing a water only fast, and at the same time my blood glucose levels are sometimes in the 90's(still fasted). My understanding is that this could be due to physiological insulin resistance (as opposed to pathological/metabolic syndrome). I'd like your input on lower ketone numbers as a result of keto-adaptation, physiological insulin resistance and how it relates to the GKI measurement.

I was chasing high keto numbers with the Keto Mojo last year from February until March 19th. A few days before the 19th I decided to try ingest more fat to bring my numbers up. I was already on just about 10-15 grams of carbs a day mostly from broccoli 🥦. My keto #’s were from .08 to 2.5 with an average of 1.8. I think I overdid the fat with butter in my coffee a few days in a row. Turned out my gallbladder decided it didn’t like what I was doing. I had severe pain went to the ER and they removed it 2 days later. The dr said it likely wasn’t keto diet or the extra fat. I stopped keto until a few days ago and I’m happy to be back on it. Looking forward to losing some pounds and feeling better.

Starting my third week tomorrow, and just been folowing your meal plan (except for the macadamia^^), Measuring each day before lunch and im usually at a 1.3 to 1.7 which makes me happy. Tiredness and all sideeffects from the beginning are gone and i just feel amazing.

I’ve been somewhat frustrated with the keto diet because of my measurements. I keep total carbs under 50g a day and often probably take in maybe 30-35g of total carbs (not net carbs). I recently moved to 2 meals and 1700 calories total intake with home cooked meals (most carbs taken from vegetables like cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, broccoli) and am 3 weeks into my keto journey. I wanted that intermittent fasting experience to drive better results and it did nothing (18 hours between meals from last meal of day to first meal of next day). Best keto reading I’ve gotten from blood was 0.4 mmol and I recently had 3 urine tests at 1.5-4 mmol while my blood ketones stayed “below nutritional ketosis”. I’ve also done workouts, walking 5 days per week. I don’t drink any alcohol and don’t cheat and grab bread, cupcakes, etc. I’ve lost no weight on keto. Wonder if I just need to throw in the towel. Lost more weight last month on a total calorie tracked diet 😑

Keep going Thomas 👍👍👍....

What range of gki should we be aiming for?

Wow, a lot of info and work. When did eating keto get so complicated and take the joy out of eating healthy? I like the info but unless something is strangely off in your body then I would do all this extra stuff but is it necessary otherwise?

I've just bought a glucose monitor that's supposed to recognise ketones too. My urine strips are still registering some ketones but the monitor isn't. I used the strips for a period prior to ketosis so I could see if they read as expected.

When would be the best time of day to test?

So,if I eat something and want to know how my body ketone and glucose changes, how do you do that? Do you eat and right away check your blood? Do you eat and wait a few hours than check?

good vid as usual...keto coach is cheaper tho for those of us really on a budget and seems to be the most consistent from my looking into it

measure or feel your way? I'm 54. Got interested in low carb diet because my recent blood work indicated fatty liver disease. I rarely ever drink and if I do it's one or two lite beers. I'm clocking four weeks in. I lift weights and walk every day. I vary my work outs between heavy and light, with longer emphasis on recovery as I've gotten older and recover slower. The consistent work outs let you keep in touch with your body on a higher sensitivity. I am a quick learner, continuous learner. And scout the comments section for experience that I can relate to and learn from. I'm dedicated to this change, having been previously indoctrinated by the false narrative of high carb low fat. Because I have experienced the exact opposite. My first positive was my sinus clearing. Within a couple of days I could breathe easier. That had significant improvement on my sleep. That was the second positive. And my body was leveling from radical high and low swings. The third positive has been more consistent better work outs feelings. I have to hold back more because I feel like going heavy more often. I've done OMAD once. But it's more natural for me to go two and 18:6. Just adopted easy and naturally so far. And I'm very active and have some difficulty getting enough calories. I've been dropping weight like crazy even though it's not my real intention. Down ten pounds but seems to be leveling out.

My ketones are always between .5 - .7. It’s rare for me to see anything higher. My blood glucose is also always low. Seems like whenever I test, the GKI says I’m not in ketosis. I’ve been keto for years. I lost 165 pounds but the last 40 is so freakin hard to get rid of. Im losing like 2 - 4pounds a month. It’s just a lifestyle now so I know that eventually I’ll get there. But seeing that GKI say I’m not in ketosis is frustrating. Footnote: I eat about 1200-1400 calories a day (about 20-23 net carbs). I have an approximately 4hr morning eating window - typically 8am to 12noon. I literally never break it and I’ve been on this IF schedule for about 3 years. Maybe I should do a fat fast for a few days.

Whats The difference of The starter kit And bundle kit of The Keto Mojo?

As someone else already asked - what range of gki do we aim for? At what number does the difference between ketons and sugar levels start giving the desired results? Thank you.

When it comes to weight loss, low levels don’t matter because it doesn’t matter if you’re in ketosis or not. Being in ketosis doesn’t speed up weight loss. I was in true ketosis for 4 months to give it a fair shot and not a fan. Too much fasting, not enough food. Workouts were the worst I’ve ever had. I switched diets literally in the middle of my cut and didn’t make one bit of difference. Kept my cut going and ended it way more happy than when I started.

I've been on 20g carbs for 3 months now. The first month I was .7 to .9 Now at 3 months it is .3 all the time, even after fasting for 24 hours. The weird thing is even if I have night out with friends and I can't get a keto meal it drops to zero for about 4 hours then straight back to .3 I can shift it to .4 sometimes by eating 100g of macadamia nuts or coconut oil but it goes straight back to .3 a few hours later. I'm losing 300g a day in weight so it doesn't worry me too much but I can't get into ketosis anymore.

just bought one like two weeks ago. there is a code. Ill return it now for the new one. thanks!

Keto mojo changed their meters, strips no longer available on Amazon, going without metering the rest of the year, buying a different company's meter, *and definitely different company !*

A purchased a meter …thank you

I’m having to start back over because my I was in ketosis until I start drinking sparkling water. My keto app said it was ok to drink but testing my ketones I went from 1.6 to 0.3 . Ever since I’ve been bouncing between 0.7 to 0.3. I’m going to fast for a two days to see would it work

You almost covertly infused a keto diet lecture with yet another product promotion.

I have pre diabetes and weigh 332 lbs. Lost 50 lbs on keto in 2018. 2019 was a wash out and ending up gaining 30lbs back over the holidays. Since January I've been ketovore and typically have a blood sugar of 100-110 and blood ketones from 03-07. I can't seem to get higher levels. Is this normal?

Is there a video somewhere on what range are glucose should be in?

I’m a 73 female 141pounds. I need to lose 7-8 more. I’ve been doing Keto since April. I’ve only lost 14#. I only eat around 1000 calories a day because due to medical issues I sit most of the time. I usually weighed around 140 for years until I started eating lots of walnuts and ice cream. That got me up to 155#. Before I got up to 155 I typically ate around 1000 calories a day. I don’t know what to do to get these last 7-8# off. I am in Ketosis as I test every day. I eat a higher protein of about 80 grams a day as I’ve had hair loss in the past. Any suggestions of what I can do?

What are your thoughts on a glucose monitor?

I just got a keto mojo and irk if it’s right. I mean… I’ve done keto for 9 months and have lost 100 lbs. I was at the 95 lb lost mark for almost two months (I slacked off lol). I just got back on track last week and have only been eating 4-8 net carbs a day for a week but I’m still only getting a blood ketone reading of 0.4! Urine strip yesterday had me at 1.5! I don’t know what’s going on but it’s reeeeeaaaalllly getting me down dude. I tested my blood ketones a few hours after eating a lunch of about 2 carbs and 700 calories (big breakfast/lunch). Would calories make my ketones go down? But even so I was at 0.5 blood ketone like 4 days ago (I was out of strips till today) and I figured I would be at at least 1.5 today! I don’t know if it’s the meter or what but if it doesn’t go up the next few days it’s going back.

Why do I have higher glucose number and my ketone number drop after workout?(using Keto-Mojo measured before and after)

My body does the opposite when I work out especially in a fasted state my ketones level go through the roof in fact the only time mine ever get 1. and above.

I got out, I was on vacation. I started back yesterday and my ketones are 0.4 how bad is it? I was out for about 8days

With this meter, do I need to text on a glucose strip and a ketone strip every time I want to get a reading? Right now I have a standard keto blood meter, and I’m trying to decide if I should switch or not. Thank you.

There’s no “special pricing” at that link.

I went 3 days into a fast without showing ketosis on the pee strips this week. I was coming off a "cheat day" that was essentially garbage and carb laden, but i thought it was weird to literally not eat for 3 days and not have depleted the stored sugar and to not have been burning fat..particularly considering rather exhausting 2 hour workouts each day. Im fairly confident that my body obeys the laws of thermodynamics and that something was consumed nevertheless, and have chalked it down to probably overindulging on a cheat day plus pee strips being bad at displaying the big picture.

The link to Keto Mojo is broken.

Question: Is it a cause for concern when the monitor registered ‘LO’ for ketone level this morning? Blood sugar was 90.

51 hours into my fast and I see this HEAVENLY LOOKING BURGER!! 🤦‍♀️😂😂 Good thing my GKI shows 2.0!!

Is it normal to have a lower ketones level after a meal for example 2.2 before 1.4 after glucose 62 before 82 after ?

Mines allways hanging 0.5, 0.4 ect but i am lean. So probably using alot of the ketones. Maybe i became fat adapted from 6 months on keto im the past but then i went back to carbs for a few months then keto again but this time my numbers are low compared to when i first started keto... permanent fat adapted?

97/2.9 is like 1.92 GKI as shown at 3:02 in the video.

I've just bought a keto mojo off amazon. The meter does not appear to be working I've tried to get advice but their no advice line in the UK. So I'm sending the meter back via amazon. No back up in the UK!!!!!!

Is that keto in mmol/l and blood glucose in mg/dl,? So you have to ÷ the mg/dl by 18 to convert to mmol/ then ÷ by keto? To get ratio. Is that right? What is a good ratio range ? I found this to be not very detailed in explanation.

Oh no! The KetoMojo blood tester doesn't ship to Canada :(

Any chance you do personal coaching??

Hey guys my Keton Level is on 6,1, is that bad !?

mm I haven't eaten in 3 days, I've lost 8 pounds (165-157 pounds) and my precisionExtra reads .3 ! I guess it doesn't matter what the meter says. I fasted to get control of glucose levels and do some experimenting. I've been around 80-85 mg/dl for those 3 days.

THANKS FOR ALWAYS breaking things down for us to completely understand. See you around

Thank you for this. This really helps. I have drop only 20 but I want to lose another 30. I’m stuck at -20 and trying to jump start the lose again. Do other people have this issue. And what is a good suggestion. I was think fasting but not sure on the duration. And how to go about it. I should have jump on the 30 day one you just did

Thank you so much for helping, I can't afford the blood testing kit. I can only afford the urine strip's, I was really excited yesterday because I reached dark red. Now today I'm in pink, I blame myself because I had a small tub of Keto friendly icecream.

Do you believe in ptk?

The guy CRYING in the overlay about his ketone levels 😅😂

If you're diabetic, trying to get under control by low carb- only (no meds), can you go until ketosis if your bs is in the low 100s?

I olny go high on keto levels after a work out or when I starve my self for the day then after I go to .3 to .4 I don't get it never been over or at 1

Why are my blood ketones dropping while fasting? 6 hrs after eating = .3 6 hrs later=.1 Only thing I've had is 2 cups of clean black coffee sipped on over 6hours. No food, calories, working out, nothing WTH

I've been using KETO Mojo since Thomas introduced it around 9 months ago, somehow my blood Ketone levels are always much lower than my wife's (we usually measure just before we sleep) but I really have no or very little body fat on my body, no matter how much or how little food i eat, and i usually eat tons. My wife, even though she does much longer fast than I do, has way more body fat than I do, so I don't think the blood Ketone level really matters that much personally.

They don't ship to Canada?!!! :-(

So what's a good GKI and what's a bad GKI or did I miss that part. My reading now are 90 and .2. So 90 ÷ .2 = 450 so what does that mean?

Dr Boz index glucose divided by ketone. Goal is 100 or less & 20 or less for cancer & dementia patients 😊

Losing lots of weigh, on intermittent fasting and keto and cal deficit, I'm very low on ketone but losing weight

Hows does the protein (Carnivore diet) turning into glucose work then with ketones.... Too much protein can kick you out of ketosis... ?

Thomas, how heavy was you before KETO ?

I don’t understand I have cut all carbs in my diet and my weight hasn’t changed in a couple of months. The last time I checked my blood ketones it was .05 what’s up with that

Any research on why certain foods and alcohol causes insulin resistance ONLY when doing keto? I am type 1 diabetic and trying to be on keto, but stomach just sometimes decides to not cope with keto at all. I have to inject over double the amount of insulin for roughly a week until things normalize.

Glucose divided by 18 divided by ketones equals GKI, right?

Just starting keto back up.. I've been trying this egg fast thing 3 eggs 1-2 tbsp butter and a but of cheese, 3x a day. In day 5and the stix still show nothing... Weird

Question, I'm doing fasted Keto, often eating under 500 calories per day, recently started going back the gym, but wondering if it's actually possible for me to grow muscle?

What timing, I just upgraded to the new meter and I need help understanding my Blood Glucose Because I don't see much discussion of peripheral insulin resistance and how it will effect GKI. I am fasted for 34 hours (after a heavy junk food carb heavy cheat day) and my current blood sugar is 105 and ketones is 0.4 GKI is 14.8. I'm more concerned about the 105. Even after over 10 days of moderate keto, after 20 hours of fasting I'm still reading at over 100mg blood sugar. How can I use GKI effectively if even with keto and fasting I'm running above 100mg. I would need ketones of 5.5mmol to have a GKI of 1, Even after 6 days of water fasting the highest I reached was 2.7. I assume if I did that though my blood sugar would drop but I'm just curious thoughts on how to deal with peripheral insulin resistance when using keto mojo.

Im getting fed up because i dony eat nearly any carbs at all and im barely in 0.5 and then I eat a small piece of salmon and im 0.2 so im not in ketosis. I think getting in and out of ketosis is not healthy.

I realize you are sponsored by keto mojo - but I do not care for this company’s service. What is comparable (or better?)

How come I never even get a reading? Everytime I try it says LO

Metabolic flexibility. Thomas sounds sick, I hear a sinus infection or cold.

I read .5 mmol in blood and 0 ketones in urine, as well as 0 in glucose (in urine). I guess its a good outcome.

You the man, yo!! Brah!!!

So if none of them are accurate really what’s the point to test? I know I been on carnivore for 3 weeks and been in ketosis according to stirips since after a week but this week I’m not even showing ketosis on my strips when I def am under 20 carbs a day. My protein and fat are both high and carbs close to nil

I have a question..I have keto mojo..my bg was 102, ketones .7...but GKI says not in GKI ketosis...what?

Ok...I’m confused...you said yourself in one of your videos that your wife gets in a higher state of Ketosis than you. I used your numbers and trying to at least be at above .5 and I can maybe push to 1.5 when I really exercise. But the today my GKI was 11.9 and apparently the chart on the KetoMojo website says I’m not in Ketosis but again you mention in one of your later videos that again anything above .5 is good but here .5 with a low blood glucose puts it at 11.9. Not sure what to go by anymore...starting to lose faith here

my gki is always high

I got my new meter off Amazon for 44 Dollars Way cheaper