#002 Dr. George Brooks on Lactate Shuttle Theory, Relevance for Traumatic Brain Injury, and More
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The Role of Lactate in Traumatic Brain Injury
There is a competition between lactate and these ketone bodies like beta hydroxybutyrate for example in getting transported into different cells including the brain. The first studies we did in 1990 where we did isolated sarcolymo vesicles so imagine a muscle it's got a big membrane sheath and you can actually break take the sheath off and it'll form vesicles. In terms of some person's nutrition ongoing that gets kind of complicated in somebody leaving the hospital so maybe a ketotic diet would really work as as a recommended diet for them leaving.
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