Effects Of Keto Chow On (My) Blood Glucose Levels
On on /r/keto /u/rhoymand has done a series on testing his blood sugar response to various foods (here is one on a Quest Bar). I’ve been curious what effect Keto Chow has on blood so I got a glucose meter (cheap as free!) and some test strips (holy cow, these are expensive!).
Today I did a test of blood glucose levels, sampling every 15 minutes from 08:45 to 14:00 (aka 22 holes in my fingers). During this time I drank a breakfast and then a lunch bottle of Keto Chow. I had intended to start this fasting but forgot and ate some beef jerky around 8. Doesn’t seem to have had an effect on the results but I’ll probably run this again in a month or so. Here’s the result:
Red lines are when I drank a blender bottle full of Keto Chow. The last few times I’ve had my blood checked by a lab I’ve been 79-87 mg/dL glucose while fasting. Anyhow that’s a pretty negligible change. At least in my n=1 test it looks like Keto Chow doesn’t have an appreciable effect on blood glucose levels. In case you want it, here is the raw data:
| Time | Glucose level | note |
| 08:45 | 96 | |
| 09:00 | 89 | |
| 09:15 | 86 | |
| 09:30 | 86 | Drank Vanilla Keto Chow at 09:40 |
| 09:45 | 95 | |
| 10:00 | 94 | |
| 10:15 | 105 | |
| 10:30 | 88 | |
| 10:45 | 91 | |
| 11:00 | 92 | |
| 11:15 | 105 | |
| 11:30 | 101 | |
| 11:45 | 96 | Drank Rich Chocolate Keto Chow at 11:52 |
| 12:00 | 88 | |
| 12:15 | 97 | |
| 12:30 | 92 | |
| 12:45 | 90 | |
| 13:00 | 98 | |
| 13:15 | 91 | |
| 13:30 | 104 | |
| 13:45 | 87 | |
| 14:00 | 97 |
Chris Bair is a technology and computer geek. He became involved in the nutritionally complete "future foods" movement in January 2014, originally with a conventional recipe and later switching to a high fat, low carb "ketogenic" variant on October 2014. In January 2015 he created the recipe for Keto Chow and released it without restriction for anyone to use, at the same time he began mixing the recipe up for people that wanted a finished product and has seen steady growth in the business every month since.
