Re: Inconsistent Keto-Mojo Results-Discouraged!
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:15 am
FWIW, Precision Xtra simply doesn't give a reading when the supply isn't adequate. To do so, seems to be inviting chaos. Just saying...
I tend to do the shake the hand vigorously method most times. I'm always doing the cold thermogenesis thing, so hands are usually cold, at least in winter in Colorado.circular wrote:Here's a video at the K-M website on getting a good sample that I don't remember seeing, so I guess I skipped that.
Good question. On glucose meters, a lot time it is high. Don't know on KM ketones. I've taken a lot more glucose than ketone readings in the last 12 years.circular wrote:I wonder, does it tend to err on the underreporting side with an inadequate but 'successful' sample, or would readings be all over the map when there's not enough blood.
Now, can I find my old Precision Xtra or did I donate it? I think the latter (leaning back with arms crossed over chest). I mainly switched to K-M for cheaper ketone strips. Do I recall correctly that you order your Precision Xtra strips from Canada or somewhere for savings? Did you evaluate whether your strips are cheaper than K-M and by how much? ... I know you don't test often, so a cost comparison may not have been worth your valuable while to undertake.Julie G wrote:FWIW, Precision Xtra simply doesn't give a reading when the supply isn't adequate. To do so, seems to be inviting chaos. Just saying...
I'm a bargain shopper and get my strips via the best deal available at the time determined through a Google search. Last time, I went through a Facebook group (never joined) and a lovely Russian woman guided me through the process of buying ketone strips for around $1 and glucose strips for about .33 cents. It felt a little sketchy as I had to use a third party payer that I was unfamiliar with; no issues. They were delivered promptly, in the same packaging that I had come to expect. How are other folks getting their strips?Now, can I find my old Precision Xtra or did I donate it? I think the latter (leaning back with arms crossed over chest). I mainly switched to K-M for cheaper ketone strips. Do I recall correctly that you order your Precision Xtra strips from Canada or somewhere for savings? Did you evaluate whether your strips are cheaper than K-M and by how much? ... I know you don't test often, so a cost comparison may not have been worth your valuable while to undertake.
In Australia, the Abbot Freestyle Neo is the same meter, rebranded as the Abbot Precision Xtra. You can find the Neo strips on eBay. I last bought them for my family member has a glioblastoma and is doing keto for that, in August 2017. They were ~$1.20 or $1.30/strip with shipping (have to pay close attention to shipping from Aus). This is the best I could find. My family member switched to the KM in Oct 2017 and gets consistent results, testing 2x/day.circular wrote:Now, can I find my old Precision Xtra or did I donate it? I think the latter (leaning back with arms crossed over chest). I mainly switched to K-M for cheaper ketone strips. Do I recall correctly that you order your Precision Xtra strips from Canada or somewhere for savings? Did you evaluate whether your strips are cheaper than K-M and by how much? ... I know you don't test often, so a cost comparison may not have been worth your valuable while to undertake.Julie G wrote:FWIW, Precision Xtra simply doesn't give a reading when the supply isn't adequate. To do so, seems to be inviting chaos. Just saying...
Julie G wrote: I'm a bargain shopper and get my strips via the best deal available at the time determined through a Google search. Last time, I went through a Facebook group (never joined) and a lovely Russian woman guided me through the process of buying ketone strips for around $1 and glucose strips for about .33 cents. It felt a little sketchy as I had to use a third party payer that I was unfamiliar with; no issues. They were delivered promptly, in the same packaging that I had come to expect. How are other folks getting their strips?
Yes! When I last bought strips she wasn’t using PayPal, but it still worked beautifully. I found her to be trustworthy.I think the group you are talking about is here. The lady is Olga Igudina. You can use PayPal. I've never bought strips from her.
On thing that Dr. Ted says is "There are many myths about fasting:genie wrote:Here is the BEST explanation for the rationale for Time Restricted Feeding written by Dr. Ted Naiman (
Time-restricted eating - Diet Doctor
https://www.dietdoctor.com/intermittent ... ted-eating
Exactly. The problem with Dr. Bredesen's Ketoflex 12/3 program is that if you're eating late (e.g. 6 pm), you'll be digesting and absorbing food for the next 3-5 hrs. Dr. Naiman said it typically takes 12 hrs after your last meal to fully enter the fasted state. So if you break fast at 8 am the next morning, you'll have almost no time in the fasted state during sleep. That's why Dr. Fung recommends that you eat before 2 pm. He also likes more extended fasts (which I haven't tried). Because of T2D (reversed by OMAD), I just want one insulin spike during the day followed by a longer period of autophagy at night. But everybody is different, so you have to do what works for your schedule.Tincup wrote: ...sleep is the repair time and you are truly fasted during sleep...