Why not take ALA with low/no carb meals?

[Punt]

I'm on a high protein-type diet, I want to start incorporating ALA, but I keep reading that you should not take ALA with a low/no carb meal. Also, what about meals with fat but no carbs, like an omelete?

Thanks.

 

[Delinquent]

ALA increases glucose uptake into the muscles. No carbs = no glucose

 

[thx9000]

What would be the benefit of that?

Excellent anti-oxidant.

 

[Iceburg]

With Keto diets, ALA is used to shuttle glucose from the bloodstream - thus preventing it from possibly being stored in the liver - and keep you in ketosis.

So meals with no carbs don't really need it - at least not nearly as much as a meals with carbs.

You could just use less for meals w/o carbs.

 

[MiniColemans]

I also wondered about this one too, like a snack on CKd might be 3 servings of peanut butter, which has 21g of carbs...so how much ALA to go back into ketosis I wonder?

 

[Ceebs]

ALA increases glucose uptake into the muscles. No carbs = no glucose

Protein is ~58% glucogenic, though, and fat is 10% glucogenic. On the off chance that you bumped yourself out of ketosis with too much protein in a meal, the ALA would speed re-entry into it. Plus, like thx9000 said, it's a great antioxidant.