Different Ways of Ketone Testing with Urine, Blood or Breath – Dr. Berg Types Of Ketones

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hi guys I’m here to answer another question on what is the best way to check your ketones when you’re first starting out doing ketosis okay as a beginner there are three different methods you can check the urine through the blood or through the breath and there’s actually three different types of ketones and by the way ketones are the byproduct of fat fuel and your body likes ketones better than glucose it’s a more efficient fuel so it just so happens that each different ketone will show up in different methods of assessment for example when you’re checking for the urine you’re gonna find this ketone body it’s called if you’re checking the blood you’re mainly gonna find this specific ketone and the breath is going to reveal this ketone alright so let me just cover the pros and cons of the urine the pro is that it’s very inexpensive compared to actually checking the blood or even the breath this is actually tested with a device that cost might be like a hundred dollars or might be less depending on what the quality of unit that you get but it’s a one-time purchase this could cost anywhere between seven to ten dollars for a hundred strips this could be seventy-five to a hundred dollars for the unit and then you have to buy the testing strips so it’s a little more expensive but I do like this starting out at least just to get your feet wet because you have the ability to test yourself through the day and determine what bumps you out of ketosis with foods and then you can tell if you’re in very light ketosis or deep ketosis base and the color now the problem is when you do ketosis over a period of time you’re gonna be utilizing these ketones I mean think about it for the ketones to be showing up in the urine those are wasted fuel particles okay so you’re not actually using them so as you become more efficient and you adapt and your body is using more ketones you’re gonna see less and less ketones showing up in urine so it’s good in the beginning but it’s not good as you get into it okay the other thing is if you drink too much water it’ll dilute the urine and it will affect your results so you wouldn’t necessarily want to drink a lot of water and then test yourself okay you want to probably test yourself maybe an hour after you drink water that would be a better measurement okay so this is a little less accurate but it gives you a good ballpark figure all right now let’s talk about the blood this is the most accurate way to check ketones it’s a little more expensive because you have to have the unit and then the testing strips but you’re testing the type of ketone that is the most abundant ketone in the body and I recommend doing this maybe after you’ve used the testing strips for the urine for a while let’s say for example you use this for three weeks and then you graduate to a device that you can check with using your blood the best device that I recommend is called Keita mojo I’ll put a link down below I don’t get any Commission’s or anything from that I’m just I just recommend it cuz it’s a good company alright and the last way to check your ketones is through breath the pro is that once you buy the device you can check it over and over and over and you want to buy any strips urine strips or blood strips so that’s a really good benefit the con is that it’s expensive to buy the device okay and over time when you do this you’ll see less of this specific ketones just simply because your body is utilizing this fuel source more and more and when this point I just find interesting is that you know people have this concept they have to burn off all these calories of fat to lose weight but when you get into ketosis there are ketones coming out of your breath basically pieces of fat coming out of your breath and you’re peeing it out without being burned and you’re basically doing that by lowering your carbs so you’re losing weight not necessarily by burning every single calorie you’re actually eliminating them through the breath and the urine which is another benefit of doing ketosis for losing weight all right guys that’s my quick summary I will see in the next video so if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthy body subscribe now and get daily notifications daily notifications that sounds weird well I’ll just remind you on a daily basis how about that