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Paul Saladino MD podcast

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The Cortisol to DHES Ratio

When you are stressed, your cortisol goes up. Ketogenic diets shift the precursor enzymatic systems toward a phenotype that makes more cortisol and it's precursors in humans. You don't want cortisol to be high really ever in your life. But for most of us, throughout our lives, it's a good time to make babies. And like I said, we want abundance over scarcity.

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