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#24 Dr. Dominic D'Agostino | Modified Ketogenic Diet for Optimal Health & Exercise (Part 2)

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The Benefits of Ketosis

I was really believing like, wow, if I get my ketones elevated, then I'll just be much more productive and happy overall. And that's why I take small amounts of exogenous ketones because they do offer rural benefits. But a lot of my initial enthusiasm and advocacy of this was just through just being very compelled by the science. We looked at the mechanism of metformin. So it does suppress cancer like in our study but mostly what we discovered is that metformin is working through complex one of the mitochondria. It actually functions as Like a weak mitochondrial toxin. So it actually increases reactive oxygen species.

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