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269: Heal Your Mind, Prevent Dementia, and Unlock Your Brain's Hidden Energy | Christopher Palmer, MD

The Genius Life

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The Ketogenic Diet

All of the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease directly impact mitochondria. The ketogenic diet stimulates autophagy, which is kind of a general repair process for old damaged cell parts. And then it also stimulates a process called mitochondrial biogenesis that means your cells will actually have more mitochondria and those mitochondria will be healthier after you've done the ketogenic diet.

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