The Crazy New World Of Ketone Esters (& How To Use Ketones For Sleep, Performance, Recovery, Fat Loss, Plant Medicines & Much More) With Michael Brandt Of HVMN
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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BenGreenfieldFitness.com/ketonepodcast
12 March 2022
Having been a consumer of a low carb or ketogenic diet since I was about 17 years old (so yeah, that's 23 years), I've covered ketones plenty in past podcasts (see resources section of shownotes for articles and podcasts).
But things have recently become a bit more cutting-edge and arguably exciting in the ever-evolving realm of ketones, particularly the exogenous ketones one can consume to rapidly shift themselves into a state of safe, appetite satiated, performance dominating, inflammation crushing ketosis, and so it's high time I gave you an update on these magical molecules. My guest on this podcast, Michael Brandt, is co-founder and CEO of Health Via Modern Nutrition (hvmn.com).
H.V.M.N. launched the world’s first ketone ester in 2017, secured a $6MM contract with US Special Operations Command, and has worked with elite athletes and researchers covering areas from athletic performance, to recovery, to metabolic health and longevity. H.V.M.N. recently announced their second generation of ketones, Ketone-IQ™ which is the most cost-effective way to get into 1.0mmol+ levels of blood ketones. Ketone-IQ™ has a waitlist of 33k+ people.
Michael believes ketones are a nutritional primitive, a tool for everyone’s toolkit, akin to Omega-3, caffeine, or CBD, and during our discussion, you'll discover:
-Exogenous ketones defined, and the basic mechanism of action behind them...
-Limiting factors in the body's ability to utilize ketones...
-What is Ketone IQ from a biological standpoint...
-How HVMN has dramatically cost costs of producing a ketone ester...
-The average length of time of peak productivity after a Ketone IQ serving...
-The impact of elevated ketone levels on sleep...
-Effects of ketone esters on recovery...
-Compounds that stack well with ketones...
-Effects of ketones on Alzheimers progression...
-Ben's tips on introducing ketones into your lifestyle...
And much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | It goes back to that like ketones per dollar. |
| 0:06.2 | Like make ketones as available and accessible as possible so that all the good researchers |
| 0:10.8 | can create new science. |
| 0:12.8 | It kind of seems similar to ketones. |
| 0:14.2 | Like if you can't have protein and can't eat a lot of calories or want to fast and not |
| 0:17.9 | lose a lot of muscle, then ketones seem to actually allow for a little bit of that effect. |
| 0:23.0 | Stance reason, like for healthy human and adult that like you might be able to get like |
| 0:26.6 | a surplus of cognitive ability if you're taking a ketone. |
| 0:30.6 | Pelt, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
| 0:41.1 | My name is Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:46.6 | If you enjoy using nicotine or you're very curious about this mysterious nicotine stuff |
| 0:57.4 | that all the biohackers seem to be using these days without actually smoking a cigarette, |
| 1:01.7 | then you have a way to do it without all the chemicals and crap and you know face |
| 1:07.2 | where they call them stick cancer sticks from smoking a cigarette. |
| 1:10.8 | No, but what Lucy, this company that's a modern oral nicotine company does is they make |
| 1:15.7 | these super clean gums and losenges and mouth pouches for people who want the best most |
| 1:21.2 | responsible, healthiest way to consume nicotine. |
| 1:24.6 | And it just instantly shifts you into this super cool focused mode. |
| 1:28.5 | I just show a couple of pieces. |
| 1:30.6 | I like their pomegranate flavored gum. |
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