How Does a Workout Affect Glucose and Ketone Levels?

Besides promoting weight loss, the ketogenic diet is often used to boost overall health. The diet is well known for its ability to regulate blood glucose levels and ketone levels but working out while on the keto diet can take your health to the next level. Let’s explore how a workout affects blood glucose and ketone levels.  Blood Glucose and Keto It’s impossible to talk about glucose without talking about carbs, and there’s a good reason why: carbs are metabolized in the body as glucose. That means every time you eat carbs (whether it’s white pasta or a carb-laden root veggie), your body converts carbs into blood sugar (glucose), which is then either used as energy or stored for later. Because the ketogenic diet is low carb, you’re not ingesting as many carbs, which means your body is using or storing as much glucose. This also means that your blood sugar levels don’t fluctuate up and down as much. Studies show that the keto diet is so effective in lowering blood sugar that it’s being…