Hello world. Today's guest is episode two, part two, with Dom Degistino. Dom is a research scientist for the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, and the primary focus of Dom's laboratory is developing and testing metabolic-based therapies, including ketogenic diets, ketone supplements, and metabolic-based drugs.

Dom's research has also been supported

and funded by the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Defense. Please welcome Dom

Degistino.

Thank you for coming on the show again, man. I really appreciate it. You've been on here before,

but for the new listeners and viewers, why don't you let them know what you do? Yeah, I appreciate being on.

Thanks, Danny. Absolutely. Yeah, I was trained. My formal, like, education is neuroscience. Well, it was

nutrition as an undergrad and then

i gravitated to neuroscience and physiology where i studied the neural control of autonomic regulation

so the brain stem mechanisms of how and why we breathe and those oxygen and and co2 chemoreceptor

regions sort of.

I could push a little closer, just a little bit,

push the mic a little bit closer to you.

Closer, yeah.

Yeah.

And so my research on the neural mechanisms of respiration led me to diving physiology.

So I was an avid diver, my PhD, and that led to opportunities to do my

postdoctoral fellowship in diving physiology, specifically funded by the Department of Defense,

Office of Navy Research, where I did work on looking at oxygen toxicity seizures, which limits Navy seal diving.

And I spent quite a few years developing hyperbaric technologies and testing these technologies in biological systems to fully to understand how hyperbaric

oxygen works and how the benefits, but I was actually really focused on the negative consequences

of being exposed to very high levels of oxygen.

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