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Ketogenic diet and gut microbiome
The gut microbiome has gained a lot of attention over the last decade or so, with more and more research suggesting a fundamental role in health and disease - so much so, some scientists even refer to it as “the last human organ”. As far as we know, there is no “optimal” microbiome, and there is...
Ketones and the Aging Brain
Despite Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) being discovered over a century ago, there is still no effective treatment available today. In fact, the rates are only growing and AD has become the most common form of cognitive impairment as we age. This has a lot of people thinking… if treatments aren’t...
Is it time to change the way type 2 diabetic patients are managed in hospital settings?
The current treatment protocol for type 2 diabetic patients admitted to the hospital largely ignores the more current and progressive understanding of the underlying pathological process that leads to the development of the disease. Current management does not consider recent advances in...
Space Shake – High-Fat Meal Replacement, Creamer, Drink
We love testing new products to find out which of those could be included on a ketogenic diet. Plus, tasting new foods and testing our metabolic response is actually pretty fun for us. What we are looking for: products that help us sustain or put us in a state of nutritional ketosis, defined as an...
Effects of a Dietary Ketone Ester on Components of Energy Balance in Mice
It is no secret that there is a lot of interest around the ketogenic diet for weight loss. Entering and sustaining ketosis, however, is no walk in the park. It requires a strict dietary regime that severely limits the consumption of carbohydrate. Because of this, people find the diet difficult to...
Ketones and Migraines
Image credit: Nutrients 2019, 11(4), 811; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11040811 Migraine is not simply a “bad headache”, it is a in fact a neurological disorder and can be extremely debilitating, ultimately affecting quality of life. Despite the commonality of migraine, there are no current treatment...
Anticatabolic effects of ketone bodies
Epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and beyond - research into the therapeutic applications of nutritional ketosis continue to expand. In fact, our team recently published a review on the anticatabolic effect of ketone bodies in skeletal muscle [1]. Muscle loss is the result of an...
Ketones and inflammation
We hear the word “inflammation” almost daily and it seems to be at the root of either the cause or exacerbation of most diseases. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which inflammation is a known contributor. What’s also known is that an elevation of ketones or induction of nutritional ketosis...
Looking back at the Metabolic Health Summit
Dr. Dominic D`Agostino opening the conference If you were lucky enough to attend Metabolic Health Summit a couple weeks ago, we wanted to extend our immense gratitude for joining us and we truly hope it was an experience of a lifetime, as it certainly was for us. Metabolic Health Summit was...
Ketones, neuroprotection and hyperbaric oxygen
A new study from our team has been recently published that we wanted to share with you! This new research is the continuation of our team`s previous study that was published in 2013 when it was demonstrated in animal models that ketone ester (KE) supplementation delays the latency of seizures that...
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