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#60: Running on Ketones and Carbs, with Michael Brandt

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How to Rescue Brain Activity After a Concussion

Ketones are metabolized differently from glucose and so when you have ketones as an available substrate immediately after a tbi the ability to recover cognitive ability. If that swelling causes starvation of neurons over the following days and weeks then it is added damage, he says. "There's massive rates of mental depression disorders suicidality coming out of the NFL" if people are able to have ketones to as a to prevent that as a prophylactic i think that's super interesting."

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