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#172: Dom D'Agostino -- The Power of the Ketogenic Diet

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How Does Ketosis Affect Performance at Altitude?

There's an increase in brain blood flow when you are in a state of nutritional ketosis. So that may reverse some of the things that we know happen as a response to altitude. The diet actually has a well-described diuretic effect. It's fairly mild but it can maybe reduce some of that intracranial pressure that people at really high altitudes can experience. There's also a book written by Andrew Murray and Hugh Montgomery, How Wasting is Saving, Weight Loss at Altitude might result from an evolutionary adaptation.

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