Ketogenic Diet... Is Fat Good For You?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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People who love the ketogenic diet swear it boosts their brainpower, melts their fat, and makes them better athletes. Is it true? To find out, we go keto. And, we talk to some scientists: neuroscientist Dom D’Agostino, medical researcher Eric Verdin, and nutritionist Louise Bourke. Also, Wendy’s mum drops in. Check out our full transcript here: http://bit.ly/355sUF7 Selected readings:This history of the ketogenic dietA pretty comprehensive reviewEric’s exploration of keto on the memories of miceLouise’s paper on keto and sports This episode has been produced by senior producer Kaitlyn Sawrey with help from Wendy Zukerman along with Rose Rimler, Shruti Ravindran and Romilla Karnick. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Additional help from Eric Menell and Simone Polanen. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Mix and sound design by Emma Munger. Music written by Bobby Lord. Recording help from Marissa Shieh and Mary Shedden. Extra thanks to Professor Jon Ramsey, Professor Judith Wylie-Roset, Professor Clare Collins, Dr Deirdre K Tobias, Joanna Lauder and Frank Lopez. Thanks to Jack Weinstein. And extra special thanks to Joseph Lavelle Wilson and Ingrid Zukerman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.
0:06.8	This is the show that pits facts against a lot of fat.
0:11.0	On today's show, the Keto-Genic Diet.
0:18.9	This is the diet where you have to eat a bunch of fat and almost no carbs.
0:24.4	Think the Atkins diet but on steroids.
0:28.8	It's supposed to be good for your mind and your body.
0:32.1	And it's huge right now.
0:34.3	The Keto-Genic Diet was one of the most Google diets in the last 12 months,
0:38.8	that's according to Google Trends.
0:40.9	And even some scientists are really excited about it.
0:44.9	If a drug did everything that the Keto-Genic Diet did,
0:49.0	it would be an enormous blockbuster drug worth billions of dollars.
0:54.2	That's Dom Diagosteino at the University of South Florida.
0:57.6	And he didn't start out researching diets.
1:00.4	No, he is a neuroscientist, a brain man.
1:04.1	But when he started reading about this weed Keto-Genic Diet,
1:08.0	he just got so intrigued he had to try it.
1:11.9	And he says that after a couple of weeks,
1:15.4	I could go throughout the whole day with a lot of energy and I could go to work,
1:21.2	forget about eating and bang out a whole day of work.
1:25.5	And even though he was eating so much fat,
1:28.7	Dom says he actually started losing fat on his body.
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