The Potent Brain & Body Ketone Fuel You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: The Science Of R3HBG With Tecton’s Dr. Mike Chesne
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode with Dr. Mike Chesne, founder of Tecton Ketones™, you'll hear how a traumatic brain injury sustained in combat led him from Army Special Forces medic to ketone biochemist, and why he eventually built what he believes is a meaningfully better exogenous ketone molecule than anything else currently on the market. We get into the real biochemical differences between ketone salts, ketone esters, and bioidentical beta-hydroxybutyrate, why the liver matters so much in how these molecules get metabolized, and a full walkthrough of Tecton's plant-based liposomal delivery system. You'll also hear about all four Tecton product formulations, the dual agonist effect ketones may have on hunger and fullness signaling, and the proposed mechanism behind why ketones may improve exercise recovery.
Dr. Mike Chesne founded Tecton after a 25-year career in United States Army Special Operations. His interest in exogenous ketones began after researching a DARPA-funded project led by Oxford University and the NIH.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Some of these products were used for things that you wouldn't want to eat it if you knew what they were using it for. |
| 0:09.7 | It's almost magic. It's almost magic. People sometimes think I talk about it like it. |
| 0:15.3 | But as you learn more about this molecule and what it does for the human bodies, it's hard not to. I mean, think about it. |
| 0:22.1 | This is caveman fuel. This is what cavemen used to get to the next meal. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise |
| 0:34.7 | physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping |
| 0:38.1 | you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 0:49.0 | Let's talk aging, skin aging. It's more than what you see in the mirror, meaning that if your skin is or is |
| 0:58.3 | not looking good, that reflects how you're doing in the departments of things like cellular |
| 1:03.8 | energy and mitochondrial function and how well your cells repair and communicate. That's why I treat |
| 1:10.5 | skin care pretty intensively, because |
| 1:12.7 | I take care of all my organ systems and the skin's a pretty darn big organ system that reflects |
| 1:16.7 | the quality of all the organ systems underneath it. That's a mouthful. So one of the brands that I |
| 1:21.8 | use for this is called Young Goose. Let me tell you about these steps. So you start with their blue |
| 1:26.8 | peptide spray. |
| 1:28.0 | It supports cellular energy directly at the skin level. |
| 1:31.3 | And then you move on to the vampire exosomes. |
| 1:34.9 | So with this layer, you're supporting regenerative signaling, cellular communication, and repair. |
| 1:39.7 | I was not responsible for naming it vampire exosomes, but it's like millions and billions |
| 1:45.4 | and dare I say, guillians of exosomes in one single product that you smear on your face. |
| 1:50.2 | And then you can finish with their youth daily moisturizers. |
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