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#172: Dom D'Agostino -- The Power of the Ketogenic Diet

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Can Exogenous Ketones Combined With a Low Carb Diet Still Work?

Adam Rockhorst has a question can exogenous ketones combined with a low carb diet in parentheses but not a ketogenic diet still give some or all the benefits of a strict ketogenic diet. I would say yes because our first experiment originally what I wanted to do was give ketone esters for one week and dive rats down to five atmospheres of oxygen which is 132 feet of sea water. We know that they have a seizure in about 10 minutes and then look at that latency to seizure you know. After talking with a number of experts and Dr. don't know why that's happening but that could be part of the effect may be enhanced glucose disposal through enhancement of insulin sensitivity,

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