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292: The 3 Foods That Are Increasing Your Alzheimer's Risk; Should We Be Worried About Oxalates? | Richard Johnson, MD

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The Effects of Low Carb Diet on Alzheimer's

Low carb diets have been shown to, you know, provide some improvements in the energy status. And it's probably through reducing the amount of fructose stress. The mechanism is that it supplies ketones, which the brain's ability to generate ATP from ketone bodies is unperturbed. So would you posit then that a low carb diet is a, I mean, there's no evidence here, but like, hypothetically, is a good preventative strategy? Yeah, well, and there are case reports,. people going on a keto diet and their Alzheimer's improving or so forth.

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