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Could This Ketosis-Based Elixir Hold The Key To Weight Loss, World Record Performances, Brain Healing and More?

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

A special kind of compound called "ketone esters" seem to be taking the sports and biohacking world by storm.

Scientific American published the article "Ketone-Based Sports Drink Promises Edge for Athletes", claiming an extra 2% of energy from the use of ketones, which is the equivalent of 60 yards in a 30 minute row, along with a world record broken in a lab test of ketones.
Cycling Weekly wrote "Ketones: New energy drink could be next big thing in cycling."...
Tech and Innovation Daily featured the article "The Difference Between Sports Champs and Sports Chumps? Ketones."...
...and Daily Mail Online reported "Could this elixir hold the key to weight loss? Experts hope it'll also treat diabetes, epilepsy and Alzheimer's"...

...I've even written about my own forays into ketosis for everything from Ironman triathlon to freediving in the article "How To Get Into Ketosis". In today's podcast, I take an even deeper dive into ketosis and specifically focus on a type of ketosis supplement called "ketone salts", also known as "synthetic ketones". My guest is Dr. Richard Veech. Dr. Veech is one of the world’s foremost experts on ketosis, and the Senior Researcher and Laboratory Chief at The National Institutes of Health, the inventor of the ketone ester, and has worked for the last 47 years studying cellular energy and homeostasis. During our discussion, you'll discover: -The fastest way to get into ketosis... -Why humans are the only animal that can truly get into ketosis... -Why Dr. Veech believes that the exogenous ketones currently on the market can be extremely dangerous... -Why a "true" ketone ester is actually a salt free and non racemic (D-bhb) drink that replicates the actual secondary fuel that the body produces during times of starvation... -Why a non-racemic, non-salt version of ketones so expensive ($3000+ a bottle!)... -The truth about something called "NAD" as the next big anti-aging drug... -Which supplements Dr. Veech would use for anti-aging... -Whether or not coconut oil can truly work for curing Alzheimer's as some may claim... -How Dr. Veech received DARPA funding and created a new fuel for the troops... -Dr. Veech's most recommended method of measuring ketones... Resources from this episode: -Precision Xtra blood monitors -book - Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure?: The Story of Ketones -Dr. Veech's NIH website -Brain Octane C8 -1,3 Butane-Diol -Beyond Resveratrol: The Anti-Aging NAD Fad -Ketonix breath testing Research:

  1. Lendvai N, Pawlosky R, Bullova P, Eisenhofer G, Patocs A, Veech RL, Pacak K. Succinate-to-fumarate ratio as a new metabolic marker to detect the presence of SDHB/D-related paraganglioma: initial experimental and ex vivo findings. Endocrinology. 2014;155(1):27-32.
  2. Nakagawa T, Ge Q, Pawlosky R, Wynn RM, Veech RL, Uyeda K. Metabolite regulation of nucleo-cytosolic trafficking of carbohydrate response element-binding protein (ChREBP): role of ketone bodies. J Biol Chem. 2013;288(39):28358-67.
  3. Kashiwaya Y, Bergman C, Lee JH, Wan R, King MT, Mughal MR, Okun E, Clarke K, Mattson MP, Veech RL. A ketone ester diet exhibits anxiolytic and cognition-sparing properties, and lessens amyloid and tau pathologies in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2013;34(6):1530-9.
  4. Srivastava S, Baxa U, Niu G, Chen X, Veech RL. A ketogenic diet increases brown adipose tissue mitochondrial proteins and UCP1 levels in mice. IUBMB Life. 2013;65(1):58-66.
Do you have questions, comments, or feedback about ketone salts or anything else that Dr. Veech and I discuss? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? It's Ben Greenfield. I don't know if you've ever heard of sous-v

0:04.7

S-o-u-s-v-i-d-e

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But sous-v is a way of cooking things

0:11.5

Really fast and foolproof with perfect texture the problem is

0:16.3

sous-v cookers are extremely expensive now

0:20.4

sous-v is a very healthy cooking method because you retain all the vitamins and the juices and the nutrients and the flavors and whatever it is

0:26.9

You're cooking but again, it's tough to actually afford one of these home sous-v products

0:33.0

So this is where this company called straight from the root comes in what they make are these fresh pre-cooked

0:40.7

Organic root vegetables and when I say root vegetables

0:43.7

I'm talking about stuff like sweet potatoes and beets and butternut squash and

0:48.2

They sous-v cook them and then they send them to you in these BPA-free grade cooking bags and

0:55.2

You simply reheat them it takes like 90 seconds to reheat them

0:58.7

I actually made myself a salad the other day

1:01.0

I wanted some butternut squash on it

1:02.5

I took out one of these sous-v bags that straight from the root sent me and just dumped it on the salad and it's

1:08.8

Extremely convenient you can throw them in the freezer they can keep for a long period of time or they can keep for 30 days in the refrigerator and they are extremely

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free of

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Servitives because oxygen never touches the vegetables during or after their sous-v cooking process really cool stuff

1:26.7

So you can check these out and get a discount on them if you go to Ben Greenfield Fitness comm

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15% off these sous-v vegetables

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This podcast is also brought to you by the Ministry of supply

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