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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and if the concept of low carbohydrate, high fat

eating or ketosis are anything that is of any interest to you, then you are going to

absolutely love today's interview.

A few weeks ago, I was at an event called the Ancestral Health Symposium and there was

a guy there that was presenting some really fascinating research that he's been doing

on ketones and ketone intake and fat intake and performance.

And his name is Dr. Dominique Diagostino and he's a professor at the University of South

Florida.

And he's doing some really remarkable research.

So for example, he's done experiments on mice where he's found that a ketogenic diet combined

with something called oxygen therapy can literally like starve tumor cells, starve cancer

cells since cancer cells feed on glucose.

But he's taking a lot of his research and not just looking at things like cancer, but

also performance and exercise efficiency and how that's related to ketosis as well.

And Dominique is actually on the call with us today.

We're going to delve into some of the research that he's been doing.

We're going to talk about some of the practical aspects of how you can use some of the findings

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