you might ask yourself what are these
well we’re gonna talk about
the keto versus lumen pens while they
might not necessarily be
competitors today i’m going to talk
about their capabilities
how you can use them and what kind of
diets they’re good for and
which one you should get for what goals
you have
so make sure to stay tuned
so this video may be a little bit long
so definitely check out the
table of contents below and click on the
time stamps if you want to skip to a
certain section
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let’s talk about what
your body uses for energy it can either
use carbs
or fats and for weight loss but in
ketosis you’re directly using
fat for energy and when you’re in a
calorie deficit you’re using your body
fat
hence quick weight loss did you know
that you can still eat carbs and
possibly be in ketosis
it really has to do with being in a
calorie deficit or
it has to do with how much carbs you’re
eating and whether you’re not your body
has
fat adapted basically how well your body
goes from using carbs
as an energy source to fat and actually
the lumen pen
has a lumen flex score which actually
shows you
how well you’ve fat adapted what these
devices provide
is just basically feedback on how
your body reacts to certain foods
certain carbs
and how you can basically accommodate to
that and make sure that what you’re
eating
gives you the result that you want so
for example if you wanted to be
in ketosis this pen will tell you how
far
into ketosis you are from level one to
level eight
and to be honest with you guys getting
to level eight is so difficult and you’d
have to be
so fat adopted but i’ve managed to get
to a level six with the keto pen
this measures your acetone levels
whereas the
lumen measures your co2 levels if your
body is using carbs as a current fuel
source
it’s going to produce more co2 levels
and hence
the lumen pen will pick up on that and
if you are using more
fat as your current source the lumen
will also pick up on the lesser co2
levels
and give you your levels based on that
so when your body starts to burn
fat when you’re getting into ketosis
your body produces
ketones and that is how some of the
other ways to measure your keto levels
by using urine strips
which can be tedious to use messy and
expensive to replace every time you also
have some blood results which we all
know is
a little more difficult because you have
to go get your blood tested
and then lastly this keto pen which is a
one-time purchase of 99
and you can use and connect it to your
phone and you get your acetone
levels tested and that’s how you know
how far into ketosis you are
whereas with the lumen the only other
way that you can get the same
tests the same results that you would
get with your lumen is a test called
respiratory exchange ratio which is
usually
done at hospitals it’s probably
expensive or
probably time consuming whereas with
this lumen pen
with a one-time purchase of 349
you can do that at the comfort of your
own home using an app when it comes to
the lumen pen
you actually put it on your base and
charge it using a regular
outlet whereas the keto pen takes a
triple a
battery which i’ve had this thing for
around two years now and it’s still
perfectly operational
okay so if you wanted to compare these
side by side
i was at a level three with the keto pen
and i was a lot level three with the
both using a mix of carbs and fat as
energy source however when i got deeper
into ketosis
when i reached a level four with the
keto pen i actually
capped out with lumen at a level one so
obviously there’s nothing
lower than a level one to get into fat
burn the lumen was telling me i was in
fat burning stage good job but the keto
can actually go
further up to a level eight and so
that’s how you know if you want to gauge
how far
into keto you are definitely go with a
keto pen
if you want to use the lumen and just
know how your body reacts to carbs and
how your body reacts to food and how
your body reacts to both
carbs and fats as you’re eating
different foods and basically learn
how your metabolism jumps back into
action
a perfect example that i will tell you
is my husband
usually gets into ketosis literally
within
one day of eating a keto diet whereas i
need three days
so i only learn that about myself is
from
using these devices so when it comes to
using these devices
i’m going to go ahead and start with the
keto pen all you need to do
is turn your keto pen on once you’re in
the keto app you click that plus sign
and log keto level you’ll see here
that it’s scanning for the keto pen and
this is when
your phone is trying to connect to your
keto pen
after that you just have to wait a
minute or so
until your keto pen is fully warmed up
and you’re at 100 percent
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okay guys i know i ate sugar last night
but
and i just had a matcha this morning
however i’m in a level two which is very
surprising to me
which tells me that my body has adapted
somewhat
so that’s awesome and you press continue
and you tell it how you’re feeling
feeling great continue
and if you look in the app here you’ll
see that there’s a journey tab
you can click on your log levels as you
guys can see i
actually took my result right before i
started recording and i was at a one
right now i’m at a two and then if you
look at
all keto levels it will tell you all
your keto levels if you needed to refer
back to that
you can click on see more and see a
graph of your week
month or year and you could do the same
thing
with your weight log so you have to
manage you have to make sure that you’re
logging your weight and you can see week
month year
so that’s pretty great feedback with
some insights here
you can also go to foods it has some
recipes for you groups and resources
and that is your keto pen it’s pretty
quick it gives you a result
right away which is very efficient
especially if that’s what you’re looking
for
now moving on to the lumen pen
okay guys now once you’re in the lumen
app you want to make sure you
turn on your lumen pen and it will have
a purple circle and the app will
directly tell you
what your battery levels are at which is
great
and then you click take a breath it will
tell you to sit relax
and turn your lumen on and then you say
let’s go
this is how the lumen app is different
from the keto app it actually wants to
get a status update from you
so we’ll ask you to put in your carb
servings
how long you’ve fasted for your sleep
your steps
lights climbed all that fun stuff your
workout inhale deeply next
it will tell you to inhale deeply and it
actually talks to you
hold your breath
exhale in three two one
i learned guys if you exhale too
violently
it will tell you it can’t capture what
it needs to capture it needs to be a
controlled like
exhale but as you guys can see here it
asks you to do it again
so it wants you to do a second one and
sometimes it’s even asking me to do a
third breath so i’m going to go ahead
and do
a second one
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again almost there it wants me to do a
third breath
that’s the only thing i would say is
this one it definitely takes a little
more time for you to actually
log and put it in but i think it’s
because it’s a little more intricate
that should be the last time today i
am at a lumen level four if it tells you
if you want to click higher than
expected
done you slept more than seven hours
which is crucial for
fat burn and as you guys see here now
it’s
building me a plan a personalized plan
based on my current levels
it is telling me to eat zero grams
of carbs and 160
grams of fat and 126 of protein
this is actually even more strict than a
keto diet itself because with a keto
diet you’re getting 10 carbs which is
around 30 grams for me
it’s telling me to eat zero grams of
carbs which is
crazy um because it’s literally
impossible unless you’re eating strict
strict
fat sources as you guys can see here you
can log your weight as well
you can do a nutrition checkup you can
look at your
tools and it gives you how to follow
your nutrition plan
and some insights if you look at me this
is the lumen flex number that i told you
guys about
and where you are with your weeks and
you can see the full history it gives
you your levels just the same as a graph
month week month and three months and
your weight as well okay so as you guys
can see this one is a little bit more
intricate it’s full of details it wants
to learn
you and your diet and how you’ve
progressed and it will recommend
a macro breakdown for every day our body
changes every day how it adapts whether
you’re working
out whether you’re sitting for that day
so it tries to accommodate
whatever your past few days looked like
and tell you what you should be eating i
will say
the only reason i am comparing these two
is because the lumen surprisingly
does recommend a keto diet now it’s a
modified keto diet because the proteins
are very high
now one very common misconception that a
lot of people keep telling me with the
keto diet is i did keto diet and
i got constipated or i did a keto diet
and i got
heart palpitations or any of that stuff
you have to realize
it is not an atkins diet it is very
actually when you think about it there’s
a lot of information out there on it so
you have to make sure you’re doing it
correctly you have to make sure you’re
doing a clean keto which means
very high in greens and i don’t count my
greens towards my carbs so yes the lumen
pen told me to eat zero carbs but i’ll
still eat greens even though they have
some minuscule amount of carbs because
your body just needs that
and you don’t want to get constipated
and you need the minerals and the
vitamins
if you’re interested in learning more
about this topic especially
if you are a breastfeeding mom
definitely stay tuned because i have
more to come on this topic and thank you
guys for watching
you are awesome and remember to be a
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