Been on the diet for most of 30’s. The benefits can be great if you can eat real food and keep up the electrolytes too. There is just no safety margin left in the body if you can’t satisfy metabolic needs on the intense diet for a few days, and don’t want to drop it, which has its own flu-like costs.
The author’s trial could hold a solution: keep the insulin safety margin while supplementing the helpful ketones.<p>Then my question, what are the standards involved in producing the ketones to keep them safe?
Kinda hard to read but seems to support the idea that a keto diet helps keep the brain sharp as we age.<p>Also learned that “keytone supplements” are a thing to kickstart the process. Looked into, they appear to be very expensive for common organic chemicals. Cutting most carbs from the diet should be a lot cheaper.
Or, same thing, carbs prevent reversing of brain aging during midlife critical window.<p>It always comes down to carbs (incl. sugar) bad.<p>Intermittent fasting is a must. Otherwise, body simply runs on carbs non-stop.
I pasted the study into ChatGPT and asked it if the study is saying we need to take on a ketogenic diet to get the benefit or just take a supplement, and it suggested that just taking a supplement (exogenous ketones) in particular D beta-hydroxybutyrate ( D-βHB ) is enough. And that the benefit occurs during the years of 40-60 but that past 60 the window to benefit may have passed.