133: Dr. Dom D’Agostino – Understanding The Ketogenic Diet And Ketones

Dr. Dom D’Agostino serves as an assistant professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology. His research interests are in neuropharmacology, medical biochemistry, cell metabolism, and signaling. Dom is a pioneering developer of ketone esters and ketone salts.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Dom’s early experiences with the ketogenic diet and exogenous ketones
• What is the ketogenic diet?
• The ketogenic diet provides anti-seizure effects in people with epilepsy
• The modified Atkins diet
• Too much protein will keep you out of ketosis
• Dom’s dietary sources of fat
• MCT oil, ketone mineral salts, and ketone esters
• Ketone bodies… beta-hydroxybutyrate & acetoacetate
• Exogenous ketones and glucose in the body, together… a new phenomenon
• Babies are born obese and in ketosis
• Athletes get into ketosis, all the time
• Ketogenic intermittent fasting
• Ketosis vs. diabetic ketoacidosis
• Alcoholic ketoacidosis
• Type 1 diabetics might require less insulin when on a modified Atkins diet
• The impact of exogenous ketones on the kidneys and liver
• Exogenous ketones have been shown to reduce anxiety behaviour in rats
• Two things Dom does every morning
• Making space for creative down time

Related links:

Pruvit – KETO//OS exogenous ketones
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Dr. Dom D’Agostino’s website – KetoNutrition
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Quest Nutrition
NOW MCT Oil
Bulletproof Brain Octane Oil (MCT Oil)
Parrillo MCT Oil
KetoSports
Robb Wolf – The Paleo Solution (book)
Ketogenic Diet Resource
Keith Runyan, M.D. & Ellen Davis, M.S. – The Ketogenic Diet For Type 1 Diabetes (book)
Exogenous Ketone Supplements Reduce Anxiety-Related Behavior in Sprague-Dawley and Wistar Albino Glaxo/Rijswijk Rats (research article)
Jeff Volek – The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance (book)
Thomas Seyfried – Cancer as a Metabolic Disease (book)
Dr. Eric Kossoff, M.D (books)
Dr. John Freeman (books)
Dr. Stephen Phinney (books)

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