After the shocking results of the pancake test, I started to get very interested in what foods affect my blood glucose and keytone levels.
On July 20th, my daughter wanted pizza, and so we decided to order a Papa John’s pizza.
The pizza was a large Canadian Bacon and Pineapple pizza, with the normal amount of cheese and sauce.
For this test, Papa John’s has been so kind to include a nutritional calculator on their site:
http://www.papas-nutritional-calculator.com/
From their calculator, I can see after consuming about 4 slices of this pizza, I had eaten:
| Total Calories | 1200 Cal |
| Calories From Fat | 320 Cal |
| Total Fat | 34.0 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12.0 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.0 g |
| Cholesterol | 120 mg |
| Sodium | 3060 mg |
| Total Carbohydrate | 152.0 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 4.0 g 4.0 g |
| Sugars | 24.0 g |
| Protein | 44.0 g |
First of all, I was shocked to see how many calories I had just consumed, not to mention the mount of sugar and carbs. But the real question was what did this do to my body, and how long would this affect me?
| Date | Time | Glucose (mg/dl) | HCT % | Hb g/dl | Keytone | Dr Boz | GKI | Comments |
| 7/20/2019 | 8:00am | 80 | 42 | 14.2 | 2.3 | 34.8 | 1.9 | |
| 6:30pm | 63 | 39 | 13.2 | |||||
| 7:30pm | 181 | 38 | 12.9 | 1 hour after meal | ||||
| 9:00pm | 119 | 37 | 12.5 | 0.9 | 132.2 | 7.3 | 2.5 hours after meal | |
| 7/21/2019 | 6:30am | 83 | 42 | 14.2 | 1.5 | 55.3 | 3.1 | 12 hours after meal |
This was truly an eye opener! I had nearly tripled my blood glucose level with just 1 meal.
Then I began to wonder, how long my glucose level would be raised, and when I would start registering keytones again.
Dr Boz Ratio:
The Dr Boz Ratio is a value taken from Dr Boz. Details of how the ratio is calculated can be found here. It is calculated using the formula Glucose / Keytone = Dr Boz Ratio.
| Dr Boz Ratio | Effect | Autophagy Indicator |
| Less than 80 | Weight Loss | Might Get Autophagy |
| Less than 40 | Immune System | Solid chance of Autophagy |
| Less than 20 | Cancer Fighting | Best chances for Autophagy |
For this meal, we can see that the Dr Boz ratio started well under the weight loss level, and then 2 1/2 hours after the meal, it had jumped well out of the weight loss level, I was certainly in weight gain mode, but then 12 hours after finishing the meal , I was back into weight loss mode.
GKI Ratio:
The GKI Ratio is calculated using the formula here: (Glucose / 18) Keytone = GKI
| GKI | What is means | Application |
| <= 1 | Your’re in the highest therapeutic level of ketosis | Very difficult to acheive without doctor’s supervision. |
| 1-3 | You’re in a high therapeutic level of ketosis | For those using keto therapeutically for the treatment of diseases, such as cancer, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and chronic inflammatory disease. |
| 3-6 | You’re in moderate level ketosis. | For those with Type 2 diabetes and obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic or endocrine disorders. |
| 6-9 | You’re in a low level of ketosis | Ideal for weight loss and health maintenance |
| >= 9 | You’re not in ketosis. | N/A |
From the GKI ratio, we can see before the test, I was in in the high therapeutic level of ketosis, ideal for weight loss, and then 2 1/2 hours later, I was in the low level, and then recovered back to the moderate level. From this it looks like the GKI formula is a little more forgiving than the Dr Boz ratio, indicating I was back in ketosis 12 hours after the meal.
Conclusion:
From this I can conclude:
- Pizza has a very large effect on my blood glucose levels. Much higher than I would expect
- And it took me 12 hours to have my glucose level return to “normal”. But Keytones still had not returned to the pre-test levels.
- One other non-measurable effect of eating pizza, is I noticed digestion issues after eating the pizza. I had never really noticed this before, or I had always thought it was “normal”, but since I had not had pizza for such a long time, this time I noticed a difference right away.
Compare this now with the Keto Friendly Pizza test and you can see there is a big difference between the effect on the body with regular Papa John’s pizza and a keto friendly pizza.
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