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I consent to urine tests when indicated my my midwife / doc because they are non-invasive and test for sugars or ketones in the urine which can both be signs of problems, especially when paired with other symptoms like blood pressure changes, rapid weight gain, headache, etc..

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Acetone is a ketone produced during ketosis, which is expelled in your urine and partly your breath.

Then I found that my calories intake (900-1300) and ketone levels of 4 - 10 in urine, which I thought as good, are actually bad signs, called starvation and leading to a low metabolism.

Blood tests are the most accurate gauge of blood ketone levels (which is what matters), and dumping fuel into the urine isn't a great use of resources, even glucose only gets dumped in pathological states, as the glucose challenge in the fasted state demonstrates.

One is looking at ketones in the urine, which is fairly cheap, but reportedly inaccurate.

There is a product called keto sticks, which comes under various brand names, and will tell you how many ketones are in your urine.

Sisson says the ketogenic diet of today is a «kinder, gentler» version of its late»80s / early»90s incarnation, which was frequently lumped in with the high - fat, high - protein Atkins Diet and called for the use of special «keto strips» that tested urine for metabolic byproducts called ketones.

Also, to mention the Atkins diet, in the book I read, the diet begins with a two week very low carb diet [20 grams of carbo perday] in order to transition the body into a state of nutritional ketosis, using ketones not glucose / insulin for energy generation; however, it is not intended to be a permanent such state but rather for the dieter to gradually add in carbs; however, is one added in only up to the limit, which varies from person to person, of carbs to just below the lvel that would transition out of ketosis, then Atkins would work with that in mind and requiring monitoring for blood or urine ketone levels and must needs be high fat,, moderate protein, and low carbs

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