You mentioned how your sleep improved from adding the carbohydrates in and, you know,

a myriad of other things.

So like in general, somebody I've always wondered and I've like considered keto now,

like obviously I wouldn't do it chronically, but I've considered like cyclical keto more

so for the cognitive like flexibility and kind of like, I don't know, sharpness you get from it, which, you know,

is seems to be unmatched in terms of ability to just like dial in and be super sharp on

something.

For you, like, did you do you think that that mental sharpness is almost like like a fighter

flight state being perpetually

sustained where like you're getting almost no serotonergic activity from the lack of

carbohydrate ingestion. You're also just like in a perpetual like elevated sympathetic

drive because you have like, I don't know, no sugar or like how do you think the mechanism

is for like, is it a healthy thing to be in where

you're like really sharp because of keto or is it like a byproduct of a suboptimal state

potentially? I think it's more the latter and I mean I've I've had debates on this when I've

been on both sides of the issue but you know if you look if you look at it, I think acutely in people

who are in ketogenic diets, cortisol will rise, sympathetic nervous system goes up. And then the body

seems to like kind of calm down and say like, oh, we're not getting any carbohydrates in the

near future. And they do kind of normalize. But it just makes sense evolutionarily that if you can't find carbohydrates,

your body's going to say, get up at 3 a.m. and go find some freaking stuff, man,

go dig a tuber, go get some fruit somewhere. Like, I think it's absolutely like you said,

a manifestation of a heightened fight or flight sympathetic response rather than a good, good thing. And you do find people have

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