Speaker 2
They're like, add a few more. So put some MCT pills. That's what they are. So this is beyond just putting MCT oil in your coffee. Right,
Speaker 1
right. You got to have- I mean, when you look at an M.M. Mini-mental status exam, 30 is perfect, 25 is cognitive impairment, and 20 was dementia. So to keep them at 25 or above, the studies that have looked at that have 30 to 45 grams of medium chain triglycerides. Oh, that's amazing. That's a lot.
Speaker 2
I don't even- I mean, you would be going to the bathroom all the time for sure.
Speaker 1
Yeah, they had a lot of dropouts when they were doing that. So you'd
Speaker 2
have to, but you can work up to that. So I've been saying MCT oil is this beautiful way to switch you into the ketogenic energy system in a quicker way. I also think when you use it, it can kill hunger. Yes. And that's really great. But now what I'm hearing you say is it also can go in there and bring down the inflammation of the brain.
Speaker 1
Absolutely. But people, I mean, I think people learn this and then like me, you forget, oh yeah, that one crosses the blood brain barrier. It gets over that. That's not a very common trait for most fats. So the fact these can cross the blood brain barrier. And we know that it's not just C8. C8 got really popular when the ketogenic diet first started as a chain that really does spin out a lot of ketones. When you have a shorter chain, like a C6 or a C4 or the Ghee that's in butter, it's just small little chains. Like the amount of ketones that come out of that are very, they're smaller. Interesting. So as you get to C8, there's a bunch that come out. But C10 is, again, a nice production of ketones and was left out as somehow C8 won the popularity contest. But I'm like, no, no, no, C10 still crosses the blood brain barrier. And there is something about that, like in brain repair, the people on both did better. And C8 alone didn't do as well as C8 plus C10. Wow. And so
Speaker 2
don't leave that.