She figured it out because she recognized the symptoms of ketoacidosis. That sent her to the hospital, which has thankfully allowed her to outlive her pancreas.
Normally it should never happen. It happens at ketones like ~10+ mmol, and it's ~impossible to go more than ~6 for a healthy human even eating 100% fat and fasting for a week+ and doing marathons or whatever all at the same time.
The keto diet, can actually help in T1D, by keeping blood sugar more stable overall, but you still need insulin, just less.
Also there wasn't really a relationship of the keto diet to the rest of my post, just using it to contextualize a technical term with one that might be more familiar.
Yes, but you have to work really hard for many years to achieve this!
While on T1D it happens by default if you don't inject insulin.
> while the new system also measures ketones, of keto diet fame, which are leading indicators of a really dangerous situation called diabetic ketoacidosis
It was being said like ketones are bad, because they are known for this scenario, but should be noted that it only happens in these few scenarios, like in uncontrolled diabetes or organ failure or smth.
In most other cases they should be good. But won't happen randomly unless you're explicitly doing keto.
In T1D with no insulin, muscle break down from gluconesis will increase blood sugar in the blood even more. The absence of insulin also makes ketone production unrestricted, so you end up in ketoacidosis.
Muscle is used when you don't have fat, or when you eat completely nothing (burn both fat & muscle).
Like I've gained ~10KG of muscle while on keto diet. Blood sugar at 70-100 depending on scenario. Usually on the lower end.
This is not verified info, but I would assume these are either A) the exact same device, just with different marketing B) "binned" production runs that did not meet the accuracy threshold for clinical/prescribed use, but are otherwise "good enough" for someone looking to healthmaxx.
The "real" device gives you what it measures as your real highs and lows while the OTC devices won't report high highs or low lows.
I have a Stelo (I was curious and diabetes runs in my family) while my wife has the Dexcom.
It also probably gives the companies really valuable data.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clea...