Glucose Ketone Index
A GKI of 0.7 to 1.5 is identified as the optimal therapeutic zone associated with maximum autophagy. GKI is valued because the glucose-ketone relationship may be more stable than glucose alone. The article says a Standard American Diet com…
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A GKI of 0.7 to 1.5 is identified as the optimal therapeutic zone associated with maximum autophagy. GKI is valued because the glucose-ketone relationship may be more stable than glucose alone. The article says a Standard American Diet commonly produces a GKI between 30 and 50. Cancer-related use of GKI is presented as research-oriented and unresolved, not as settled cancer treatment. The glucose-ketone index relates blood glucose to blood ketones measured close together in time. GKI requires U.S. glucose values in mg/dL to be converted to mmol/L before calculating the ratio. Finger-stick glucose and ketone measurements are preferred for GKI because CGM interstitial glucose can lag blood glucose.