Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Today, we're going to talk about the brain and how to keep your brain really young and

healthy.

Sound good?

Okay, so the raw material of the brain, which basically makes up the structure, a good

portion of it, is something called DHA.

This is, you know, mega-three fatty acid, okay, comes from fish, shellfish, and definitely

cod different oil, and salmon.

So you want to start consuming more fish to get more of this, to give your brain what

it needs structurally.

Even in a growing child, it's extremely important, but in a pregnant female, it's even more

important.

Now, the fuel that the brain prefers is ketones, way over glucose.

It does need a certain amount of glucose, but don't worry about that because your body

can make glucose from ketones and from fat and from protein.

So we don't need to consume glucose to feed our brain, it prefers ketones.

If you have glucose and ketones in the blood, the brain will always take ketones first.

So if you're transitioning to ketosis, and let's say you have, I don't know, insulin

resistance or your prediabetic or your diabetic and it takes longer, you can add MCT oil to

beef up, no pun intended, your ketones, to basically get more ketones in your brain

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