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When should people with diabetes measure their ketones?

If you are taking insulin, and especially if you have type 1 diabetes, it is a good idea to keep some “ketostix” with you to test for ketones when your blood glucose is high for no obvious reason.

What are ketones?

If people who do not have diabetes eat fewer calories than their body needs, their pancreas will stop pushing insulin into their blood.

When is it helpful to measure the C-peptide level in a person’s blood?

There are a couple of steps to making insulin inside your pancreas.
The first step is that your pancreas makes a big molecule called
proinsulin.