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Does glucose handling in the brain decline with age? And if so, does this serve as a rationale to supplement with MCT oil to prevent cognitive decline? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #304

Mastering Nutrition

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Is McToil Safe?

MCTOIL can be included in a carbohydrate rich diet and still generate ketones. It's probably not correct to identify either a general loss of mitochondria or a general decrease in glucose metabolism as the primary problem being solved by MCTOIL. The primary problem may be that astrocytes are completely combusting glucose for their own energy as they become senescent rather than using it to provide neurons with lactate. And so presumably you're also going to help these, I don't know this for a fact, but I would think that by stimulating glycolysis across the board, you would start to remediate this shift in energy metabolism.

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