Hello, world. On this episode of the Concrete Podcast, I talked to Dr. Dominic de Agostino. Dom is an associate

professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida,

Morsani College of Medicine, and a senior research scientist at the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition.

Dom's primary focus is developing and testing metabolic therapies, like the ketogenic diet,

which can effectively treat many forms of cancer and epileptic seizures.

In addition to being one of the smartest people I know, he is also one of the strongest.

He has deadlifted 500 pounds for 10

reps immediately after a seven-day fast, as fitness and weight training has always been a huge

part of his life. Some of his research has been funded by the Department of Defense, the Office of

Naval Research, and many other private organizations. If you have any questions about diet and

nutrition, cancer prevention, or longevity, you will enjoy this conversation with Dr. Dominic de Agostino.

Enjoy the show.

So, yeah, how did you get into initially getting, get into talking about your work on podcasts and like on the internet and mainstream media?

Yeah, I, well, I knew about the ketogenic diet and my research took me in the direction of using a ketogenic diet

for oxygen toxicity seizures, which is a limitation for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which we can

talk about. And also, it is a limitation of Navy SEAL divers that use a closed circuit

rebreater because they breathe high concentrations of oxygen in close circuit.

And that research, the technologies that we developed to do that type of research were essentially hyperbaric chambers that had technologies inside that I had used for years,

including confocal microscopes, atomic force microscopes,

patch clamp electrophysiology.

These are all techniques that a neuroscientist uses,

and I was a neuroscientist for my PhD and also my postdoc.

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