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#023 Dominic D'Agostino, Ph.D. on Modified Atkins Diet, Ketosis, Supplemental Ketones and More

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Ketones Are Used as Fuel in the Brain, You Know?

The brain is, you know, using it as fuel after you take it. Your brain's kind of still alive. So that brain is still active. So it sort of uses the metabolites. Another question which I think will involve radio tracers is actually to do like a ketone pet scan where we can look specifically at the regional distribution of ketones and figuring out what areas of the brain may be preferentially shuttling them in different ways.

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