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#11 - AMA #2: the Nothingburger — results from Peter’s week-long fast between two weeks of nutritional ketosis — and answering questions on all things fasting

The Peter Attia Drive

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I'm in Ketosis and I've Been on a Diet of Carbs for a While Now and It's Been a Long Time Since I Started.

Starting on whatever day that was July 8th so the baseline labs were done like two weeks before I started. then you also had some more basic markers you looked at for example your weight and your was a beta hydroxy butyrate. So my trailing 90 day blood glucose was 99 milligrams per deciliter with a standard deviation of 15 now that's a little bit higher than I would like to be truthfully if someone some people may rememberI've talked about this in the past I think sort of 85 to 90 for an average blood glucose is the sweet spot. During that week of ketosis you'll see obviously weight starts to go down ketones finally you know they start to

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