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Xylitol is only at all useful because it will help kill the bacteria feeding on the carbs in your mouth and your throat that produce the acid that eats teeth. If you eat carbs and you clean your mouth enough you will get by, but small pockets of bacteria will cause regrowth. If you don't eat the carbs and especially sugars, the bacteria will starve and problem solved. you may still get tarter buildup but no bacteria that produce acid.

On a podcast of Anthony Chaffee interviewing Anthony Phaesse, episode 212, in was said that the Dawn Effect was caused by the suns light activating receptors in the eyes affecting Cortisol levels more than circadian rhythm. I have been working nights for 40 years, not sure exactly how that affects me, but I will experiment with lunch options. My glucose was 120 mg/dl again after waking at 1pm and driving 1 hour in the light, and eating nothing. The excess protein I have been eating may be fueling extra gluconeogenesis, but I will cut out the bread first to see. Need to get a keto breath meter too. Don't know exactly how long 50 grams of carbs has been knocking me out of keto. Never planned to go full carnivore with my wife fighting me all the way, she needs to do it too but has not yet. Interested in how much extra protein it actually takes for muscle hypertrophy without affecting blood sugar so keep us posted. by the way, have you seen Anthony Chaffee?

Forgive me for intruding, but I have a similar problem that could be related that no Doctor has ever tried to address. I have no diabetes, no chronic health problems, am now 65 at 6' and 170 Lbs., and went towards keto 15 years ago as a weight loss challenge with a buddy. I initially lost 30 pounds by cutting the carbs, while he gained 20 pounds with medical help. Then I lost 30 more over a year. At the time, I had bought a glucose meter for self-information. The only puzzling thing to me was a slowly rising fasting glucose that nobody could explain. I recently broke out the meter, put a new battery in it, and am still exhibiting the same thing. Woke up, drove 45 minutes to work, tested before putting anything down the hatch, and was 120 mg/dl. Drank chia seed water and was 91 mm/dl an hour later. Drank some EAA's and was 115 mg/dl two hours after that. Got 4 eggs, one fork-full of hash browns steamed, and a piece of toast spread with 6 oz of cream cheese two hours after that and was at 124 mg/dl. If it's like a 10 years ago, that will drop into the 70-80 mm/dl range for hours and then slowly head back up while fasting. Back to considering why. My diet has changed over the years and lately I have not been getting enough fat at times, hence the chia and cream cheese. When I get home from work it will be beef or salmon. Pain working 54 hours/wk. nightshift. But I think I'm fine, just curious as to the cause. Weigh less and do more work than the twenty somethings, and exercise, and walk 10,000 to 20,000 steps a day.