Mental Health - Dr. Christopher Palmer - Neuroscience
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The Ketogenic Diet: A Metabolic Intervention for Healing
Fasting has been used for millennia in every culture and every religion on the planet. I don't think it's a coincidence that fasting somehow found its way into essentially every culture andEvery religion. The ketogenic diet is actually, if you're doing the medical version of it, the Ketogenic diet is trying to mimic the fasting state. It stimulates a process called mitophagy, which is getting rid of old and defective mitochondria and replacing them with new ones. And also stimulates a process known as mitochondrial biogenesis or the production of new mitochondria.
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