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Pre-Order AmbroGreens for October. Receive free 30-serving jars!

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Dear Ambronite Tribe,

We’re making a fresh batch of AmbroGreens (whew, they sold out fast), and wanted to give our community the opportunity to pre-order and receive free jars.

All pre-orders made by September 12th 2021 ship on the 2nd week of October, 2021.

This allows us to produce the right amount for you and ship the fresh batch directly to you.

You receive free jars, on us.

Sounds good? Pick your favorite amount here now.


The Benefits of AmbroGreens:


✔️ Daily all-in-one nutritional insurance

✔️ Support immunity and increase daily energy

✔️ Stop cravings

✔️ Daily greens and veggies to cover your needs without synthetic supplements

Click to Get Free Jars when you Pre-Order

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New pricing for US Subscribers - please update your credit card by December 2021

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Dear Ambronite Tribe,

To simplify everyone’s experience, we’re moving to single pricing in Europe and North America.

If you have a Ambronite subscription order in US dollars, we will contact you shortly.

If you have a subscription in Euros (€), no action is needed.

The good news is that for most customers who are currently paying in US dollars, the new subscription will be more affordable. Nothing else will change: shipping, your favorite products and everything else will remain the same.

Unfortunately, we can’t do this automatically, and we will need you to update your credit card details in 2021, by December 15th.

It’s simple:

If you have a subscription from https://ambronite.com (in US Dollars):

1. our support team will contact you shortly and ask you to complete your checkout again. Your existing subscription will be replaced. The new subscription costs less for almost everyone.

2. Click on the link and complete your subscription checkout again. Done!

If you have a subscription from https://eu.ambronite.com (in Euros): you don’t need to do anything.

We know this is a bit of a hassle - but it will only take a minute on your end.

If you have any questions, you can reach out to hello@ambronite.com at any time.

Have a great day,

Simo & Arno, Ambronite cofounders & Ambronite Customer Happiness team

Complete Plant Protein Launched

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In hundreds of responses, we heard your wishes for a next generation protein that ticks off convenience, taste, completeness and stomach friendliness.

You wanted a Complete Plant Protein.

Protein made tasty, easy and stomach friendly.

A nutritional insurance, for optimal overall health and muscle gain.

This was definitely missing from the world, so we created it. I’m excited to introduce Ambronite Complete Plant Protein


Easy, tasty plant protein shake with complete amino acid profile 

4 grams of BCAAs per serving 

Fully absorbed with powerful natural digestive enzymes 

No added sugar, dairy free, and gluten free

Great-tasting berry flavour

To make life easy, here are the launch deals, shipped to your door. No need to leave the house:

>>> Complete Plant Protein Launch Deals

Stay strong and healthy and help others do the same this week, wherever you are!

ACTUALLY Useful Tips and Links to Survive the Turbulent Weeks Ahead

In these turbulent times, taking care of ourselves and the people around us with small actions that make a difference is more important than ever.

Here’s what you can do to be useful, feel better and help the people around you, besides the ”wash your hands” -level no-brainers:

  • Call your elderly relatives instead of visiting them, and make sure they have what they need at home
  • The news cycle can be intense and depressing. How do you feel when you don’t start the day by checking the news? Turn off the TV and news notifications and see how your mood and focus improves

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Zero to Keto in 16 hours Experiment: Meals, Measuring Tools, Results

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Keto is not a miracle, but exceptionally useful for burning fat and losing weight without hunger and cravings. People have more success losing weight with keto compared to other diets, thanks to its powerful satiety effect.

There are two problems with experiencing the benefits of keto in my everyday life:

1. Starting keto can be hard 

2. Finding keto meals that take me to optimal ketosis can be stressful and suck up too much effort, time and money

So, with my cofounder and recipe mastermind Arno, we wanted to share the results of a simple experiment: Zero to Keto in 16 hours!

In this post, we’ll tackle the tricky business of getting into ketosis without hours of planning, stressing out or breaking your bank.

This is something you’ll obviously need to nail first. If you’re curious and want to try keto for the first time, or if you’re experienced with keto and want to make it easy and tasty, this one’s for you.

“Easing in” VS Zero to Keto in 16 hours?

In my previous newsletters, I’ve talked about taking it slow and not going “full keto” within 24 hours. Easing into keto gradually can be helpful, especially if you normally tend to eat meals high in carbs. Too fast a transition to a fat-heavy diet can upset your stomach and lead to loose stools, which can make social life the wrong kind of “exciting” for a few days. After eating carbs for a while, I’ve often preferred to prepare my body by gradually increasing the amount of fats in my diet for 1-5 days before going full keto (<20-50 g of carbs / day, 70-75% energy from fats, 20% from protein, depending on my goal).

For me, this has meant adding more fats like extra-virgin olive oil and butter into my foods, preferring plant-based bowl foods like veggies and avocados with eggs and tuna, and leaving out potatoes, starches, rice and oats.

However, a faster route is also possible: Simply enjoying a simple low-carb meal 2-3 hours before bedtime, and starting my day with an Ambronite Keto Meal Shake Chocolate.

The last time I followed this simple method, my evening meal was an avocado with some cherry tomatoes, a handful of almonds and a salad with greens and veggies like spinach and broccoli with some tasty extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and tasty Italian balsamic vinegar. This “pre-keto” evening meal doesn’t even have to be ketogenic or too strict with limiting carbs: I’ve noticed that for me, it can easily contain 10-20 grams of carbs, although I’ll reach ketosis a bit faster if it has less.

With Arno, we’ve turned our salad game into an art form. Here’s Arno’s simple yet elegant recipe for the first evening of Zero to Keto in 16 Hours. It’s ketogenic and packed with gut and stomach healthy fibre to aid with the transition, so it’s a great choice for any keto meal.

Arno’s Big Keto Dinner Salad

Calories (kcal): 600-650 kcal in total (scale to half for smaller appetites!)

Prep time: 10 min

Ingredients:

  • 1 avocado (~300 kcal)
  • 1-2 boiled eggs (~75 kcal each) and / or handful of nuts (e.g. macadamias are great)
  • 2-3 cups of spinach (~7 kcal per cup, 30 g) or other greens
  • Half cup (50 - 100 g) cherry tomatoes (~15 kcal)
  • 30 g olives (~30 kcal)
  • Optionally add feta cheese on top.

Preparation: Mix spinach and greens in a bowl, add avocado, add eggs. Voila!

Top it off: Extra virgin olive oil (1 tbsp), balsamic vinegar, squeeze of lemon juice, salt, pepper.

Pro tip: You can add more olive oil for more keto-friendly calories: 1 tbsp is ~120 kcal. Also, you can add more eggs or nuts for more protein.

The role of this evening meal is to aid with the fast zero-to-keto transition while being stomach-friendly.


In the morning, I’ll have a full Ambronite Keto Meal Shake.

Then I’ll just wait for a few hours.

Normally when transitioning into ketosis, I’d go for a long walk or easy jog while listening to music or podcasts or take calls on work days, but with the keto-accelerating mix of premium fats and MCTs in the Ambronite Keto Meal Shake, this isn’t even required.

Before dinner on the same day, I’ve reached ketosis. Often my ketones pop to over 0,5 mmol/L roughly during the time I’d normally reach for an afternoon snack, around 3 PM.

Within 4-5 hours after my Keto Meal Shake breakfast, a simple CareSens blood measurement from my finger tip reveals that my blood ketones are at 0.6-0.7 mmol/L.

With very little effort, I’m now in ketosis, and already enjoying many of the benefits - including fat burn, weight loss and satiety.

Cravings and hunger are a common question at this stage. Hiding high-carb treats can make everything easier. Personally, I don’t even feel the need to hide the high carb treats and snacks in my house anymore, because the craving-stopping effect of keto is pretty strong for me once I pass the 0.6 mmol/L threshold. Don’t try this at home if it’s your first time though, or if you know you love your high-carb treats A LOT.

It’s weird to look at your favorite treats and not feel tempted to munch on one!

This shouldn’t be too surprising though: blood ketone levels of around 0.6 mmol/L and over seem to suppress the hunger hormone ghrelin that’s partly responsible for the cravings we normally feel.

Optimal ketone levels for weight loss: 1-3 mmol/L

What’s the optimal keto level to lose weight and burn fat?

The optimal level of ketosis is best measured by the concentration of ketone bodies in blood. When we restrict carbs, fast, or exercise intensely for several hours, ketone bodies are produced by the liver from fatty acids and used by our body and brain for energy. Ketone bodies consist of the water-soluble molecules acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB, popular in exogenous ketone products) and acetone.

The sweet spot and optimal ketosis for weight loss is between 1-3 mmol/L. When I’m above 1 mmol/L, I start to feel the satiety effect keto is known for more clearly. It’s a strange feeling of clarity to be free of the “urge” to snack on something.

Reaching the optimal ketone level for weight loss typically takes 2-3 days for me, but can be achieved within a single day with meals that are designed to not only support, but accelerate ketosis.

How I measure my blood ketones affordably at home

The best way I’ve found to measure my level of ketosis is a blood sugar and ketone level measuring device like the KetoSens Ketone Monitor Kit.

This is the one I use to measure my ketone and blood glucose levels. I’ve also tried the Precision Xtra Blood Glucose and Ketone Monitoring System and the KETO-MOJO system, but prefer the KetoSens for convenience, price, and the fact that it needs less blood to get a reading and wastes less of the expensive ketone strips. A kit for blood glucose and ketone measurement can be obtained for $40-50 or 36-45 € - I paid $40 (38€) for my kit, and it came with 10 keto measurement strips and a lancet (Count Dracula’s tool for medical-grade finger tip poking for the blood).

The single use keto strips fed into the blood ketone measurement device are typically model-specific and tend to be a bit pricey when bought in small batches - I’ve found they can cost up to $1 or 1€ each in boxes of 10! In my experience, this is hardly enough when starting out. A week’s worth of measurements can cost $7-20 or 6-18 € if I’m doing an experiment, so to save a bit of money, I’ve ordered these in larger packs of 50 keto strips and 50 lancets.

There are also breath analyzers like the Swedish Ketonix device, that you essentially exhale into for a breath ketone reading. I’ve tried the Ketonix and met their team members at Biohacker Summit. The tech is really cool, and allows for unlimited measurements throughout the day at no extra cost, eg. after every meal if you wish (no strips, no needles!). I love the fact that it’s non-invasive and doesn’t require you to poke a small needle through your finger for a drop of blood. However, since it relies on measuring exhaled ketones in the breath, namely acetone, I’ve found it isn’t as useful for me as blood ketone measurements, which are the medical-grade gold standard. Furthermore, comparing breath and blood ketone levels is complicated as the Ketonix team points out. Referencing and comparing my data with other people and clinical studies is more straightforward with blood measurement devices, since these are used by studies and lots of folks doing these n=1 measurements.

You can also use the urine strips to measure your ketone levels. These reagent strips for urinalysis are originally made for diabetics, so you can find them in pharmacies everywhere for roughly $10 or 10 € for 100 strips. I’ve used the Bayer Ketostix that are widely available in pharmacies in the US and Europe. After soaking a strip in urine, you get a rough estimate of your ketone levels, indicated by the changing color on the tip. Determining exact ketone levels with these is almost impossible, so I rarely use them anymore. They’re cheap but not ideal because of their low reliability, especially when you’re just entering ketosis and are at or around 0.5-2 mmol/L. And frankly, I don’t enjoy peeing on measurement strips that much.


The difference between keto-compatible and keto-accelerating meals? With the right meals, it’s possible to get into ketosis faster than with normal ketogenic meals. The optimal mix of premium fats and medium chain triglycerides or MCTs that are rapidly turned into ketones by the liver without requiring the actions of bile and rapidly promote ketogenesis in humans.

This is exactly what we designed Ambronite Keto Meal Shake to do: make it easy for everyone to start and reach optimal ketosis for weight loss, fat burning, and experience all keto health benefits faster than with any other meal, without giving up on convenience and great taste.

Typically, just one or two 400-calorie Keto Meal Shakes are enough to get me into the beneficial ketosis zone where I can also feel the benefits.

A medium-carb or low-carb evening meal (which can also be a Keto Meal Shake for even faster results) and a Keto Meal Shake breakfast later, you will be in ketosis.

Most people who prefer keto for shedding extra fat appreciate the freedom from hunger and cravings it provides, and spend most of their time between with their blood ketones in the 1-3 mmol/L range.

I tend to lose weight fast when I’m on keto. This means it’s not optimal to be in keto for weeks at a time when I’m aiming to build muscle, endurance and speed.

Personally, I’ve done some cyclical keto weeks (1-5 days of keto at a time, followed by a few days of refeeding) as part of my current mountaineering-focused strength and endurance goals, as I’m not looking to lose too much weight right now (and that seems to happen unintentionally when I’m on keto).

With that said, let’s get down to the experiment:

Zero to Keto in 16 hours: Arno’s experiment, meals and blood measurements

How fast is it possible to get into ketosis without stressing out?

Arno did a short keto experiment with blood measurements with Keto Meal Shake Chocolate using my KetoSens device for blood ketone measurements. Here’s his account on getting into ketosis in less than 24 hours, without exercise or any real prep, a few days ago:

Evening before keto day

20:00 “A “Big Ass Salad” for dinner, much like described above; avocado with some cherry tomatoes, a handful of almonds and a salad with greens and veggies like spinach with some tasty extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I also added some Feta cheese and topped it with sea salt and pepper. The meal contained approximately 20 grams of carbs.”

Ketones at 0 hours: 0.0 mmol/L


Morning of keto day

08:00 “The next morning after waking up I poked my finger with the lancet and measured a 0.5 mmol/L level of ketones in my blood, using the KetoSens device described above.”

Ketones at 12 hours: 0.5 mmol/L

“I enjoyed an Ambronite Keto Meal Shake Chocolate for breakfast.”

12:00 “Around lunch time, 4 hours after eating the Keto Meal Shake breakfast, I measured my Ketones again and the device showed a 0.7 mmol/L result. – I was already in ketosis!”

Ketones at 16 hours: 0.7 mmol/L

“I have to say being in ketosis feels great. Not only because I know that my body is literally burning fat for energy, but also because of the mental clarity which increases work productivity significantly. The metaphor of fat-metabolism and ketosis being like driving a Tesla while carb metabolism is more like driving an old gas engine Ford definitely feels true. Also, what holds true is the satiety effect and the craving-stopping effect. It feels like I have more willpower against food or treats once I get into ketosis.“

This was the first 16 h of the Zero to Keto experiment. Arno’s results are roughly the same as mine, even though he’s noticeably leaner (my current body fat % is well over 20% right now after a season of heavy lifting). A lady in her 30’s or someone with more body fat or less muscle might expect similar results after a few more hours due differences in basal metabolic rate to the lower muscle-to-bodyweight ratio.

I’ll keep following Arno’s keto measurements and sharing the results with you. As always, these experiments are n=1 experiments - we’re not doctors, this is not medical advice - and we simply want to share our real experiences and results as we create new useful things for you guys.

For me, personally, the biggest benefit of the Keto Meal Shake Chocolate so far has been that I have to think less about keto meals, especially in the morning. It’s not that I didn’t have tasty real food keto meal options before - but often these are not as fast, easy or affordable as I’d like, and tend to be a bit heavy on dairy and meat for many people and occasions.

According to my own measurements, my time from zero to keto with one or two of these shakes is now down to 16 hours - roughly the same as Arno, and what other users are reporting.

Over to you: what would you like to know about starting keto? What’s your go-to keto breakfast?


Article written by Simo Suoheimo


My 3 Keto Mistakes (And How I Beat Them)

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Painfully often, I catch myself wasting time and attention with details that would be much better invested in the 20% (2-3 basic things) that brings 80% of the results.

Our brains love to overcomplicate things.

Even when we know we’d be better off with just getting a few basic moves right…

Nowhere is this more true than in the world of keto and low carb.

When trying to adopt a new habit or lifestyle change, there’s virtually no limit to the amount of attention it can consume, and somehow still crash into the ditch of failed attempts (for me, it’s getting mighty full down there…)

When I observe people with habits and skills I’d like to cultivate in myself, it seems that consistency is rarely found without daily simplicity and a generous measure of self-love.

This is hardly a coincidence.

Making anything a part of your daily life, from learning a new instrument or starting a new movement habit or keto requires overcoming these 3 habit killer pitfalls.

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Keto Meal Shake Launched

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Keto Meal Shake Chocolate is here to help you (and me) experience the benefits of keto faster, while enjoying full chocolate satisfaction!

>> Check out the Launch Deals while they are still available


Keto is really powerful for losing fat, but frustrating, hard and expensive to start for most.

Keeping it up felt like a half-time job. Having to think about and prep meals was daunting as heck. Smart, easy options were nowhere to be found. That’s why we found it extremely important to follow the next guidelines while making the perfect keto meal replacement shake:

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Keto for Fat Burn - True or BS? The evidence + my experience

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As I’ve shared several times before, I’ve personally experimented with keto a few times. Like fasting and certain types of exercise I do regularly, it’s a valued and powerful method in my tool box.

While I didn’t go into the experiments with any expectations of losing fat and bodyweight (in fact, I was afraid I’d lose some of my hard-earned strength and would feel weaker while climbing, running and lifting weights), losing fat almost accidentally was exactly what happened, while my overall fitness remained the same.

Concretely, during a 4 week keto stint, I lost some 4 pounds (2 kg) of fat from my midsection and arms. I could clearly see my abs, biceps and deltoids pop up in the mirror, which made me feel great. I was stronger per pound of bodyweight, which meant I could do more pullups (+5 reps), pistol squats (+3 reps) and pretty much every other movement than before.

Going and staying keto even for a few weeks was hard and required a lot of prep even for me, so I figured most people would probably never do it. The time, effort and social cost felt simply too high for most. 

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3 Tips I Use to Find Treats That Taste AND Feel Great

I love good treats. I firmly believe that treats should FEEL as good as they taste.

Unfortunately, most treats don’t.


I prefer treats made with real, recognizable ingredients, that are incredibly tasty, healthy and convenient.…

that’s a tall order, no matter where I shop. Nuts and many other snacks can get dull fast. Clean plant-based bars that are both tasty and free of nonsense are hard to find.

The reasons are many: cheap, artificial ingredients are easier to use in production. Even previously reputable brands have had the real berries in their products replaced with artificial “flavors” to minimize costs.

Coatings on bars and cookies are often the worst offenders. Suspect “chocolate” coatings that have never seen a cacao bean are common. Weird ingredients that don’t belong in a tasty, stomach friendly treat.

I love good treats and have had a lot of trouble finding the good stuff. Judging by the amount of questions, this is a common problem among people who aren’t satisfied with the flimsy health-compromising options out there.


I just made a short video on this. In this short video, you can learn the tips I use to find zero-guilt treats that taste AND feel great (after all, choosing the good stuff means you don’t need hold yourself back):

PS. We couldn’t find a proper bar with real plant-based ingredients you can taste. So we made one. You can order it next week.

AmbroGreens LAUNCHED: Immunity, gut health, and freedom from cravings made easy

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It’s time! AmbroGreens just launched - time to pick your favorite limited time launch deal here.

AmbroGreens is the easiest and tastiest way to

  • Improve gut health

  • Fix weird stomach problems

  • Improve immunity

  • Stop cravings (and unwanted weight gain…)

  • Get your greens in 30 (tasty!) seconds

All in a format your body can actually use, thanks to the cutting-edge mix of carefully chosen plant based real food ingredients. Check out the video below:

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