133: Dr. Dom D'Agostino - Understanding The Ketogenic Diet And Ketones
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
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
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Dr. Dom D'Agostino's website - KetoNutrition
Follow Dr. Dom D'Agostino on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Bulletproof Brain Octane Oil (MCT Oil)
Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution (book)
Keith Runyan, M.D. & Ellen Davis, M.S. - The Ketogenic Diet For Type 1 Diabetes (book)
Jeff Volek - The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance (book)
Thomas Seyfried - Cancer as a Metabolic Disease (book)
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 133. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:21.0 | and we are here each and every week to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:24.8 | Today our featured guest is Dr. Dominic D'Agostino. |
| 0:28.4 | He serves as an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, Morrisoni College of Medicine, |
| 0:34.8 | and the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology. |
| 0:38.6 | His research interests are in neuropharmacology, medical biochemistry, cell metabolism and signaling. |
| 0:46.0 | DOM is a pioneering developer of the ketone esters and ketone salts and we dig deep into |
| 0:52.4 | ketosis and exogenous ketones on Today Show. |
| 0:56.0 | So before we get into some of the highlights from Today's show, I'm going to read aloud an iTunes |
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