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#074 Dr. Dominic D'Agostino on Developing a Well-Designed Ketogenic Diet and Harnessing Its Benefits

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What Is a Ketogenic Diet?

Ketogenic diet is unique from a dietary therapy point of view, and that it's the only diet that we know of that is defined by an objective bimarker. If you are not in a state of hyper kitonemia, elevated keytones, you're technically not on a ketogenic diet. To really get higher levels of key tones that are therapeutically linked a to what it's used to treat, which is like neurological disorder, seizures and things like that,. You really have to increase the fat, drop the carbohydrates especially, but moderate the protein, and really consume a really high fat diet. But they both have therapeutic effects that we can delve into.

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