Ketosis and Alzheimer's: A Metabolic Neuroscience Journey With Dr. Stephen Cunnane

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Early evidence indicates that ketogenic therapy is a safe and effective treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. Dr. Stephen Cunnane has been part of this field for decades and has seen the research take shape. But he’s also seen very slow adoption in clinical practice. Dr. Cunnane, professor at the University of Sherbrooke, shares his journey through this field, why he got started with ketone research, how ketogenic therapies could revolutionize how we treat dementia, and what we need to do to make it more acceptable.
Please note, Dr. Cunnane is a professor at the University of Sherbrooke, not Ohio State. We apologize for the error in the video
Table of Contents:
0:00 - Introduction
1:41 - Why Ketones?
5:52 - Brain Fuel
10:29 - Are ketones a better fuel?
13:55 - Brain Energy & Alzheimers
18:01 - Do MCTs help?
20:31 - Keto Therapy Progression
23:36 - Keto: Research vs Clinical Adoption
25:07 - Are Opinions on Keto changing?
26:36 - Common Reasons for no Keto
27:23 - Fighting Stigmas against Keto
30:23 - Ethics of Health Industry & Money
36:16 - Outro / Future for Dr. Cunnane
Expert featured in this video:
Dr. Stephen Cunnane
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Studies Referenced:
Brain energy rescue with ketones improves cognitive outcomes in MCI
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Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer's disease
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33622...
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@darlafitzpatrick8770 9 ай бұрын

My dad, who was not overweight, didn't have Alzheimer's but he was diagnosed with T2 diabetes in his 70s. He was given Metformin and he thought he was doing fine. However, in 2016, at age 85, he had some serious falls resulting from numbness in one leg. His neurologist informed him that his T2DM was poorly controlled. Dad knew I had recently changed my diet (at that time we called it "LCHF" rather than "keto") and he asked for my help. Dr. Cunnane is so right about older folks not being motivated to change their diet -- but here I was, being asked for advice, so I taught him how to cut carbohydrates and what to eat instead. (Dad: "Can I eat butter?" Me: "You can eat a whole stick of it, if you want.") He did amazingly well for about a year -- until his next annual checkup with is G.P. Recently I found notes from that doctor's visit in 2017. His A1C was 6.0, so they actually advised him to STOP the low-carb diet because his diabetes was "so very well controlled." WTF?! He was still very much in the prediabetic range, even after a year of improvement! Nobody will be surprised to know that, because his doctor said so, he resumed eating rice, ice cream, and his neighbor's homemade break, and his favorite frozen waffles with syrup every morning. And no one will be surprised to hear that his neuropathy and fainting spells resumed. I encouraged him to cut those things out of his diet again, but people in that generation truly believe their doctor knows best. He died recently at age 92 after several hospitalizations and his ultimate death from heart failure. I respected his wishes and let him live his final few years the way he wanted to, but it could have been so much less unpleasant for him. Conventional doctors need to pull their heads out of their a$$es about the benefits of reducing carbohydrates. Research like Dr. Cunnane's should be earth-shattering, but because there's no money to be made from it, it'll continue being ignored.

@chadfitch3293 9 ай бұрын

Oh I’m so sorry I feel your pain I’m having issues with my father and his Dr as well.

@kenadams5504 8 ай бұрын

Only Lawsuits will change the culture you have described. I'm sorry your Father was mis-advised by a Doctor he trusted .

@andrewdawson5281 5 ай бұрын

I respectfully disagree. It's the doctors fearing litigation that stops them from moving away from the standard of care guidelines.@@kenadams5504

@satxsatxsatx 3 ай бұрын

Is capitalism Follow the money The toxic food environment has been rigged by big food and by big ag, which is producing 75% of Americans being overweight obese diabetic, for-profit Doctors are trained in a very narrow groove to recognize symptoms and always then provide drugs, as rigged by big pharma Eating for metabolic health such as with a ketogenic diet, where is the corporate, industrial profit?

@satxsatxsatx 3 ай бұрын

@@kenadams5504 Sue? Whom? For what violations?

@awesometulips9427 10 ай бұрын

This is mind blowing research 😅 thank you for making it available. Priceless information. My 88 year old mom has been on 3 tablespoons of MCT oil everyday, clean moderately low carb keto with 14 hours of daily fasting. She recovered so much cognitive function...this interview just made my day!

@metabolicmind 10 ай бұрын

Wow, that's amazing to hear! Thank you for sharing your mom's story.

@theantiqueactionfigure 10 ай бұрын

The real good study will be of us who have been on a ketogenic for years before passing middle age. I lost my mom and my mother-in-law to Alzheimer's so it's an issue for me. My sister was a total boss over my mom's care. She stepped in on my mom's diet as much as she could, being on the keto diet herself. It made an obvious, my mom did much much better than my mother in law. She died in that home a couple months after the lockdown. My mom was a total fast food junkie. My mother in law went extremely low fat during the 80 misinformation and beyond. They had her on statins too. Our standard American diet is killing us in more ways than one.

@toneyniko99 10 ай бұрын

"... what risk does that person take for prescribing that treatment..." I don't know, but I can tell you what it looks like going to war with doctors for 12+ years as a caregiver who has used the ketogenic diet with his mother since nearly the begining of her Alzheimer's "diagnosis". A rhino's hide isn't even as thick as my skin is now. I divorced 2 complete medical teams before I final pieced together one that would somewhat listen to me. More importantly, they were the few mainstream doctors within a major metro area that would even work with anyone trying to do this. To be brutally honest, it's standard of care and hubris that are the two most dangerous things inside the walls of our medical-industrial complex (allusion intentended).

@suzanneoleson7580 10 ай бұрын

I have several generations on my mother's side that have passed away with Alzheimer's. All the kids in my family are currently on keto to help prevent passing this on to us.

@dianelakata1308 9 ай бұрын

This 78 year old woman is doing great on a ketogenic way of eating!!! Family history of Alzheimer’s disease so I am very motivated.

@24bellers20 9 ай бұрын

I’ve had hypertension, ibs and depression since I was 16. I’m 66 now and have been in ketosis for a year. I keep between 3 and 5 millimolars. All issues have gone.. no meds now for anything and feel fully alive. It seems to work for me. My A1c was 36( UK) when I started. Now it’s below 28 and falling. The drug companies will hate this.

@CashMoneyMoore 10 ай бұрын

Cunnane's work is so important. Can someone get this man the $5,000,000 required to do an MCT study with 300+ in each arm!?

@jimrutherford2773 9 ай бұрын

The big wealthy donars are unfortunately on the side of the plant based vegan agenda and will not support any study on diets where animal products are involved. Establishment medicine will fight tooth and nail to suppress any results coming out in keto or carnivore studies, to the point they will lie.

@susangrewing8446 9 ай бұрын

The reason to not let go of SAD. Carbs/sugar is addictive. You ever tried to get an addict to change? I've been keto over 2 years. Always learning

@marzymarrz5172 9 ай бұрын

My Mom was a big fan of a low fat diet. I'd say she ate that way for 20-30 years, and later in her life she died of the consequences of dementia. This video is important information, I think.

@jassmann1000 9 ай бұрын

I,m 77 years old and started using mct 8-10 . Five years ago. I noticed the clarity in my brain change within half an hour. After that i searched the internet and started the ketogenic diet . I lost 25 kilos but after that none more. I,m still 10 kilograms to heavy. I feel so much healther i have been in 20 years!!. For me i stay in ketosis to feel my upper best. I start the week with on Monday eating only lunch and on Tuesday eating only dinner. The rest of the week i eat 18/6 or 20/4. I feel the difference in thinking, when I slip out of keto. I know I can stay clearer in my head by keeping my carbs low!

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story of success!

@caspianlake8475 9 ай бұрын

Can you explain more about mct 8-10 please?

@petermay6496 2 ай бұрын

@@caspianlake8475 you can look it up on the google.

@dsakurai 23 күн бұрын

@@caspianlake8475 It's probably a mix of Carbon 8, and Carbon 10, in the medium-chain fatty acids class, which is C6-C12. The common ones are C8-C10 mix, and there's also only C8 ones. Coconut oil contains C6-C12 in different concentrations.

@linnamulkey8812 5 ай бұрын

My mother is now full time now with me....was bad bad into de.etia etc...I am ketovore and she has changed diet...omgoodness has improved markedly

@JanetFisher-mg5jb 3 ай бұрын

Dr Scerr. Watching this today and feel like I am a study of 1. Having lost 3 siblings and my mother in past 6 years from dementia, you can imagine my strong desire to not be a family stat. I am almost 80 now. After studying so much KZfaq with yourself and other physicians, I lost almost 50 lbs in 3 years on Keto protocol, swim a minimum of 4 hours weekly and start my day everyday with a good tablespoon of MCT C8 that is the best to reach the brain, in my coffee. Things are going well so far and In fact I have put my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis into remission. Brought CRP down to under 5. Ranges normally 8 to 12. Am a firm believer in keto, MCT 8 and exercise. I think thus far, I am outrunning my family history that is so frightening as you can imagine. Sorry to ramble but wanted to share my experience with the subject of this discussion. Janet Viewer from Canada

@metabolicmind 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story, Janet. It's so great to hear that keto and MCT oil has been helpful for you!

@bernadettebecher4689 9 ай бұрын

Great podcast. Most people are not active in seeking out health solutions that come from nature- sunshine, real food, excercise and good sleep.

@az10sbum1 9 ай бұрын

In medicine it takes a lot of evidence to change the way things are done even if there is no evidence to support the way things are currently done.

@caspianlake8475 9 ай бұрын

Touche

@lynlawley8903 8 ай бұрын

That's true and even if they know its true the ,job payer rules the roost

@annacourville4622 10 ай бұрын

Epilepsy, thank you for talking about that. It has absolutely helped me! Thank you Bret for talking about therapeutic ketosis. It is not an option it is a therapy!

@ScienceAppliedForGood 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for having Prof. Stephen Cunnane. His scientific work is very influential. I've read a number of his studies and studies where he collaborated on and found them enlightening.

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Please note, Dr. Cunnane is a professor at the University of Sherbrooke, not Ohio State. We apologize for the error in the video

@alannahri1385 9 ай бұрын

Hello Dr. Bret Scher glad c u back and concentrating on keto/carnivore. We need more people like you, Dr. Shawn Baker, Dr. Kay,,,,and few more to study this topic more and educate more common people. As a country we r getting destroyed. It is easy just walk on street in the morning and c how many fat people u c. I have been doing keto/carnivore for last 5 yrs. Lost a lot of weight, no CPAP machine. Work almost 12 hrs a day at age of 64, knee pain gone,,,,,. Hardly eat any vegetables, i eat, meat, fat, zero carb cheese, eggs. Please continue with ur good work. Thank you x 100

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@happynjoyousnfree 9 ай бұрын

At 30:00 re medical treatment and profit. I believe that no human service should be able to earn a profit. Non-profit or government services all the say--preferably non-profit services that have to meet certain standards. I work as a therapist for a non-profit and I really believe this is the best model. No one should be able to profit from sick people, mentally or physically.

@richardracine9055 8 ай бұрын

come on. get a grip.

@annehogg7258 10 ай бұрын

such an interesting interview - thank you!

@aprilek6003 10 ай бұрын

Excellent information and interview as always. Love Dr. Cunnane's work. Looking forward to hearing about his results with adding exercise. Also, love that he is looking below the neck. Thank you thank you thank you

@metabolicmind 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! We're happy to hear that you enjoyed the interview.

@sdjohnston67 9 ай бұрын

This is so important. Thank you.

@Paul-dorsetuk 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting video thank you both very much.

@marilynpeoples5099 5 ай бұрын

I’m new to this channel. But the information and interviews have given me valuable information.

@sanautin 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting and informative!

@peterbeyer5755 2 ай бұрын

At the Victoria market, in Melbourne Australia beef fat is $5 a kilo, I use it to make tallow to increase my fat intake, tallow with minced beef, eggs and salt are very reasonable priced keto meals.

@fusedchromosome9350 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed the hell out of this one.

@karenohanlon4183 10 ай бұрын

I think that a lot of people on the run of the mill pharmaceuticals seem to be more prone to early onset Alzheimer's.

@lynlawley8903 8 ай бұрын

Lots of pharmaceutical s have bad side effects and cause other illnesses

@terhohalme 9 ай бұрын

Sorry, but there is no huge money in ketogenic diet for big pharma, that where your resistance is... Over 12 years on ketogenic/carnivore diet, all metebolic problems like obesity, diabetes and depression are dissappeard.

@BunE22 9 ай бұрын

Not only that, how many doctors get kickbacks from pharma for prescribing meds? That could be an incentive for some docs to keep their patients on medications.

@lilytea3 9 ай бұрын

0:29: 🧠 Dr. Stephen Cunnane discusses metabolic therapies and ketogenic therapies for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. 4:35: 🧠 The speaker discusses the importance of ketones in early brain development and their potential benefits for childhood epilepsy and healthy brain aging. 9:39: 🧠 PET imaging can help preserve brain function in Alzheimer's disease. 13:38: 🧠 The speaker discusses the importance of cholesterol and saturated fats in brain lipids and how energy utilization is relevant to diseases like Alzheimer's. 18:33: 📈 The magnitude of improvement seen in people on MCT supplements for six months was borderline clinically relevant, with statistically important changes in language and a moderate effect size. 23:41: 🤔 There is a cultural resistance in the medical establishment towards alternative approaches to mental health and neurodegenerative diseases. 27:37: 🔍 The speaker discusses the challenges and benefits of a sustainable diet. 32:09: 🍽 The speaker discusses the challenges of motivating people with health issues to change their eating habits. 36:26: 🧠 The importance of behavioral modifications and support systems in adopting a healthy lifestyle and the potential benefits of exercise in Alzheimer's patients. Recap by Tammy AI

@GraceKanedesign 2 ай бұрын

I find EVOO 3 tablespoons daily has boosted my feelings of mental & physical vitality. I've used MCT oil in the past with less visceral effects. Thanks for your curiosity passion & activity in this arena. My father died at 94 after 10 years of oxygen depletion caused memory loss. Mother passed at 103 with no dementia at all.

@wigglywrigglydoo 9 ай бұрын

Please do an episode on ketogenic diet for elderly patients who are very weak, bed ridden, and don't have testh to chew hard foods. My parent is dying from alzheimer's and I don't know what to do, and what to feed him 😭.

@patricktony9504 9 ай бұрын

My Dad is also at this state which your parent is in. Its been a battle to get him to eat well.. He is bed ridden and barely eats. I find soups work well. Heaththy puddings. But, there comes a time when its basiclly time to pass on. They may be at that point, which my Dad is at. Weeks or even days. Best Wishes and God bless.

@ekondigg6751 8 ай бұрын

Try soup (low carb, of course) with an egg cracked into it, because of the protein requirement of frail people, vs typical refusal to eat meat, and at least one tablespoon of MCT oil, as much as tolerated without causing diarhea. That's what I used as an evening meal for my mother-in-law.

@lynlawley8903 8 ай бұрын

Egg knog is a good drink milk egg a bit of sugar or honey and rum ,/brandy and it buildsdont use the one,s from doing tors they tast yak and are chemicals and sugar

@gigics6695 7 ай бұрын

@@ekondigg6751. What was the base of your soup?

@chaseplacelinda 6 ай бұрын

We blend our meals in either a Nutribullet or Vitamix into a smooth sauce for Mom (101years - dentures don't fit well anymore). I wish I could show a picture of the next step, but just google for catsup and mustard picnic containers and you will see the kind of 8 ounce containers with pointy squirt tops that we fill with the soup. Put the lid on. Now take one of those GoGo squeeze yogurt or Treetop applesauce pouches that has been rinsed out and squirt the soup into it. If it is too liquidy, add a little psyllium to thicken it. Too liquidy will choke an older person. If it is too strong tasting, thin it out with high fat coconut cream (check the label and buy the one with the most fat) or whipping cream. Mom loves these pouches because she can feed herself and gets many different flavors (we also make frosties out of chocolate protein, frozen banana, etc. and put in them. It is easy to add collagen powder, magnesium citrate powder, supergreens powder, lemon flavored fish oil, MCT oil, prebiotic fiber, etc into the concoctions. Good luck!

@user-zh9sq2zk3v Ай бұрын

There was a 60-minute segment on recently about how Parkinson's improved after 45 minutes on the treadmill. Maybe it was the ketones produced by exercise. Also, Michael J Fox said years ago that his Parkinson's disappeared while he was ice skating.....maybe the ketones also.

@Jimfrenchde 10 ай бұрын

I have atrial fibrillation, I hope that this ketogenic diet helps.

@dianechilds1857 9 ай бұрын

The ‘carbaddictiondoc’ Dr. Cywes, just had a KZfaq on this

@toneyniko99 10 ай бұрын

"... a fragile population..." A protein centric, animal based, ketogenic diet will also make that to a great extent a non-issue... relative to pre-existing medically induced damage.

@MrDeepak57 9 ай бұрын

Dr Sean Omara. I am 64 from Kathmandu, Nepal . My relatives are coming from USA after few days looking for Device that you mentioned in previous videos about Sagittal abdominal diameter which is X-ray calipers not able to find in Amazon . MRI expensive any other way to measure at home ? Thank you.

@marilynpeoples5099 5 ай бұрын

Exercise!!!! Ah , the Golden Fleece. How many jumping jacks for how long ?😊

@chrissie.0864 9 ай бұрын

I’m curious to know how old Dr. Cunnane is now - does anyone know ?

@boneymaxfield 9 ай бұрын

It's actually simple why progress and adoption of these positive results is so slow, follow the money on which businesses and wealthy corporations/individuals profit by keeping things exactly as is regarding the general population's health experience.😢 😢

@jerrycash5606 9 ай бұрын

A Flex Fuel vehicle is a better analogy The goal is to achieve metabolic flexibility.

@maidomaidonaidekka 8 ай бұрын

The liver cannot use ketones because the liver makes ketones for the rest of the body. The brain cannot use fatty acids because the brain is made of fat, i.e. it cannot consume itself... Red blood cells cannot use oxygen (no mitochondria & produce energy via fermentation of glucose) because they carry oxygen. The heart and kidneys are very crucial organs always working hard and need stable fuels like ketones and fatty acids. Glucose is virtually for the body's emergency use, i.e. sub-fuel.

@danettedarbonne1804 9 ай бұрын

What ketogenic suppliments does he use in his studies?

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

The most common keto supplements are MCT oil or exogenous ketones.

@kabropatai5476 9 ай бұрын

Keto +exercise + fasting like eating in 6 t0 8 hr window or one meal a day will speed up ketone level.

@judymiller5154 Ай бұрын

Who can give me the short list of best items to include/exclude? My hubby has early AD signs, his older sister had it bad so he is concerned. He is willing to try a diet change for 90 days...started out to consider carnivore, but now he wants this and that favorite once in a while, etc. I see ultimate failure (see, I did it, and it didn't work). I think eliminate sugar, fruit, starch, grains, alcohol, and seed oils. And add MCT oil.Is that a good outline?

@metabolicmind Ай бұрын

That is a good outline. Here's a guide that may help with more details. www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/foods

@MsSilver41 9 ай бұрын

Off topic but how do we find a psychiatrist, dietician and doctor in Australia 🇦🇺 that can help??? My brother is treated for bipolar and schizophrenia and I’m struggling with supporting the ill effects of the Psych drugs which is the only medical advice he’s being given .

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

You can try the directory at www.DiagnosisDiet.com/directory to see if you can find someone to work with, or even someone who can see you remotely. We hope that helps!

@joanwilson4491 7 ай бұрын

THERE...this brilliant man/researcher said it....ketones in the brain are indeed the preferred fuel. Our standard american diet (the sad diet) is a devastation to our brains whether young or old. Whether it is alzheimers, anxiety, or any number of mental disorders...glucose(too much sugar in the blood and in our storage) is usually the main disaster for body and brain. Recently I cringed when a new kid on the block (The so called "Glucose Goddess") said twice that glucose is our bodies preferred fuel. So many people who should seriously know better need to remember that we can only have the equivalent of 4grams/approximately 1 tsp of sugar in our blood, any more and it puts our bodies in severe danger. Our bodies use glucose first, not because it is a preferred fuel but because it is a threat when it needs to find storage places constantly thanks to sugar/carb addiction being the norm. Also, our bodies can make all the glucose it "needs" from proteins and fats. There are essential protein and essential fats for human life. There is no such thing as an essential carb.

@user-gb4wp4bg3h 9 ай бұрын

Let me ask some things: doing a carnivore diet (eggs, bacon, meat, fish, butter) , is it sure that you are going to insert in a therapeutic nutritional ketosis state? If the answer is YES, does this hold true even if the caloric intake is greater than the calories spent? Meaning that if you are gaining weight can you also be in a ketosis state?

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Yes, you can gain weight even in ketosis. It can be challenging to do, but it is possible especially with keto products or with adding lots of butter, cream, and nuts (more than you "need" to add) to everything. Since a carnivore diet is essentially zero carb, just about everyone should be in ketosis with that diet. You can easily check with an over the counter ketone meter.

@lynlawley8903 8 ай бұрын

Also just eat less,,you should feel full, most get ill because we ate ,to much sugar based ie rice turns to sugar also lots of premade foods pasta and the way we eat is hard because we aren't working walking so hard now using cars, as eating large meals and lots of sugar puddings ,,drinks how many sugars monster 17 sugar in a can ,,realy ,,and I didn't read the tin ,,I was so shocked and how addictive,,they are

@lynlawley8903 8 ай бұрын

And carbs break down to sugar,,and balance what foods you burn

@PaulBCAB 9 ай бұрын

So if you're looking for a psychologist, you might want to see if you can get hold of Jordan Peterson. Not only might he have suggestions about how to incentivize people to utilize the keto diet, he could potentially reach a wide audience with the research results. The reason he might listen is that he is on a Carnivore/Keto diet and is well aware of its benefits to him.

@caspianlake8475 9 ай бұрын

Dr Perlmutter, too.

@summertime104 9 ай бұрын

I do not really understand the difference between coconut oil and MCT. I bought coconut oil and used it for the first time yesterday cooking fried eggs. I saw a podcast yesterday where a woman used both MCT and coconut oil to help alleviate her husbands Alzheimer's symptoms, on her own because she was not getting any help. It improved him greatly but in the end, his brain donated to research showed that he had Lewy bodies disease which explained some of his symptoms. She said he was able to tie his own shoes after she began treating him with the oil whereas prior, he could not.

@happynjoyousnfree 9 ай бұрын

Holy crap! Can you post a link to that podcast?

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Here's a link kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJldaKqCy8uuZmw.html

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

There may or may not be a significant difference between coconut and MCT oil. You can think of MCT oil as being more "pure." But as Mary Newport hypothesized, there may be other components of coconut oil that provide benefit that we don't get with MCT. To be clear, that is her hypothesis, and I don't think there is any evidence to support that, but it may be something to consider. At this point, I don't think we can say for sure that there is a significant difference.

@summertime104 9 ай бұрын

@@metabolicmind ty

@summertime104 9 ай бұрын

@@happynjoyousnfree I will go into history

@stanleysokolow 9 ай бұрын

If I take more than 1 tablespoon of MCT oil, it acts as a laxative. I wonder if patients can tolerate enough MCT oil intake to benefit their brain.

@theresehazen528 9 ай бұрын

Building up slowly works for some.

@BunE22 9 ай бұрын

In most elderly, constipation is an issue, so the oil might help keep things moving. For younger people, maybe split the dose during the day?

@kocsogarc 2 ай бұрын

You can use coconut oil, too

@turbomarek Ай бұрын

You need to emulsify it. It gets much better absorbed and creates much less GI stress in an emulsified state, scientific proven. I put a bit of protein powder with mct oil and some hot coffee in the blender for at least a minute until it's foamy

@Alec_Collins78 7 ай бұрын

Doesn't the brain need to be able to use fatty acids in order to use ketones?

@metabolicmind 7 ай бұрын

The brain as a rule is very poor at using fatty acids for fuel. That's what makes ketones so important for providing an alternative fuel source.

@maidomaidonaidekka 8 ай бұрын

Nice topic nice video!! It is important that first we need to eliminate yeast overgrowth, otherwise cravings for carbs will continue. Once it is eliminated, there is not much cravings for sweets or any other types of carbs, except for sweet potato. I think using the right types of probiotics and herbs like oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, mint, etc., in our diet will help. This is called brain-gut interaction. Once the candida overgrowth is suppressed, then re-introducing some healthy carbs like sweet potatoes with ghee caramel, goat cheese cakes, etc., would be wonderful 🥰

@joanwilson4491 7 ай бұрын

Other then the rare antibiotic for emergencies, drugs are NEVER the answer! All disease is metabolic.

@Amanda_downunder 10 ай бұрын

good, AND, Dr John McDougall says aluminum is a part of it ! I don't feel on keto diet, I like starch-based. #HCLF #starchivore

@adamandsteve13 10 ай бұрын

Does Dr John McDougall look healthy? Mentally and physically.

@MrSudarwito 6 ай бұрын

Incridebly enplanation

@JennifertxCarnivore 9 ай бұрын

Carnivore rocks!

@user-le1os1sw8m 9 ай бұрын

👍👏💯🖐🇷🇺

@marcdaniels9079 9 ай бұрын

Nobody talking about all the potential negatives of Keto diet here unfortunately. Serious long term health consequences may be coming down the road in the future. Fibre consumption leads to a 27% reduction in all cause mortality. This fad is so dangerous with very limited or no long term outcome studies available. Be very careful with all these promises based on early mechanistic research

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Interestingly, none of the potential negatives has been shown to be the case for people eating keto. And the data in favor of fiber and whole grains all come from the context of high-carb diets. So, there is lots of room for nuance. Here's a link to an educational guide that has much more detail, which may be helpful. www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/skeptical-doctors

@joeberrouard3743 9 ай бұрын

You clearly don’t understand a ketogenic diet if you think you cannot have fiber on a keto diet

@metabolicmind 9 ай бұрын

Broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, spinach, avocado, etc. etc.