Can Ketones Protect Against Brain Injury?

Can Ketones Protect Against Brain Injury?

Brain injuries, for example, traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and spinal cord injuries are highly prevalent and can affect us at all ages. In the US, it’s estimated that stroke affects nearly 800,000 people, while 2.5 million people suffer from TBI every year....
Ketones and Heart Health

Ketones and Heart Health

  Earlier this year, a study was published on the effects of ketones and heart health. The paper was entitled: Ketogenic Diets Inhibit Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Induce Cardiac Fibrosis and the media headlines read: A Keto Diet Leads to Heart Scarring and...
Ketogenic diet for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

Ketogenic diet for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

Harvard undergraduate student Elaine (Elly) Katz interviewed Dom for her Genetics and Genomics class project. Dom was so inspired by Elly that he thought it would be great to highlight this remarkable story in the KetoNutrition Blog on the ketogenic diet. Click...
Uridine and Exogenous Ketones for Seizure Control

Uridine and Exogenous Ketones for Seizure Control

Our research group, in collaboration with a Hungarian research team, just published a new study on the effects of uridine and exogenous ketone supplements in a rat model of epilepsy and showed for the first time that uridine enhance the anti-epileptic effects of...