Is It a Stressor?

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The ketojant diet is very unique in that independent of calories, has nothing to do with calories. No other diet will actually change brain nero pharmacology to control seizures. It's not a calory's in, caloryes out thing. And because we know that it does this for epilepsy, it makes all the sense in the world that it profoundly has profound capacity and a potential to be used in mental health disorders.

Dr. Dominic D’Agostino is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He is also a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). His laboratory develops and tests metabolic-based strategies for targeting CNS oxygen toxicity (seizures), epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, brain cancer and metastatic cancer.