#453: Nick Gant, PhD – Cognitive Performance: Impact of Caffeine, Nicotine & Creatine (Rebroadcast)
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Ketogenic Diet After a Brain Injury
The brain is highly reliant on glucose based sources of energy for a lot of things and you see that in the fact that those glycogen stores I mentioned in astrocytes become depleted after exercise certainly in rodents. It would be very reckless to say someone who is liable to have a brain injury or suffering from one take ketone bodies sorry take ketone salts or esters or generate your own through ketogenic diet if you were trying a ketogenic diet for the first time after a brain injury it might could be catastrophic.
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