Keto / Low-Carb Diets&Ketone Esters REVERSE Brain Aging...But Glucose Accelerates It · Research Roundup - a podcast by Geoffrey Woo (H.V.M.N.)
from 2020-04-14T18:30
Brain aging is inevitable, but not uniform; every brain ages differently. Are there lifestyle and nutritional interventions we can follow to reduce the rate of decline?
A recent study found that those who followed a ketogenic and low-carb diet did indeed see positive results that we can attribute to preventing (perhaps even reversing) cognitive decline as they age. Fascinatingly, even those who followed a standard American diet found that simply ingesting an exogenous ketone ester (H.V.M.N. Ketone Ester) resulted in similar, positive neurological effects.
This study, led by Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, PhD, and published in PNAS, is titled "Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for brain aging, in young adults". When interviewed about her findings, she is quoted:
"...as people get older, their brains start to lose the ability to metabolize glucose efficiently, causing neurons to slowly starve, and brain networks to destabilize. Thus, we tested whether giving the brain a more efficient fuel source, in the form of ketones, either by following a low-carb diet or drinking ketone supplements, could provide the brain with greater energy. Even in younger individuals, this added energy further stabilized brain networks.”
In this episode of Research Roundup: Dr. Latt Mansor, H.V.M.N. Research Lead, walks us through the methods, results, and analyses formulated from these experiments.
Resources:
Study: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/11/6170.full.pdfPress
H.V.M.N. Ketone Ester: https://go.hvmn.com/ketone-pod
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