
#453: Nick Gant, PhD – Cognitive Performance: Impact of Caffeine, Nicotine & Creatine (Rebroadcast)
Sigma Nutrition Radio
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Glucose Metabolism in the Brain
Lactate has an important signaling role this is important when we talk about ketosis particularly with exercise science. We don't know yet whether there's some competitive inhibition of other fuels when it's around so the brain may have a peak power output problem. Keto people make huge inferences from the epilepsy field um taking having a ketogenic diet or carbohydrate elimination is a really effective strategy for reducing the occurrence and severity of tonic clonic seizures.
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