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#172: Dom D'Agostino -- The Power of the Ketogenic Diet

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Keto Sports - Is the R Enantiomer the Way to Go?

The first ketone ester that we tested for CNS oxygen toxicity was the one three butane dial beta hydroxybutyrate monoester in the R enantiomer and it didn't prevent oxygen toxicity seizures. And I was going to give up on the project when I discovered an earlier patent by Henri Burning grabber that had a one three butANE dial combined with aceto acetate. The pharmacokinetics were beautiful. You get a kind of a one to one ratio of beta hydroxyButyrate and acetoacetate and the liver. It was in that particular ketoneEster gave remarkable neuroprotection against CNS oxygen toxicity.

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