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#188: Dom D'Agostino on Disease Prevention, Cancer, and Living Longer

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Optimizing Ketogenic Diet Takes Time

Adapting to burning fuels on a ketogenic diet takes time, with benefits and ease increasing as the body becomes fully optimized. It may take months or even years to fully adapt to the ketogenic diet due to complex physiological changes such as upregulation of transporters, enzyme systems, liver metabolism, and gene expression. Advanced athletes have reported taking about six months to fully optimize on a ketogenic diet. Therefore, it's essential to be patient and give the body ample time to adjust to the new fuel source.

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