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Alzheimer's and Dementia - Is Ketones a Detour?
There's a medical food that's been approved by the FDA called exona, which is an exogenous ketone supplement based on medium chain triglyceride fats. The brain needs half of its fuel source to come from ketones as we're trying to change the brain's addiction to sugar. And so if you're not providing the brain ketones and your brain is not able to generate the energy that it needs, but the issue is, first of all, all the clinical research on this has been short-term.