Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory.

Today's guest is Dom DeGastino, PhD.

He is a neuroscientist and physiologist who's pretty much established himself as the

King of Keto.

He's also a researcher who's not only helped some of the world's most extraordinary

athletes push their limits, but he's also worked with cutting-edge organizations such as NASA

and the US military to develop protocols to help ultra-elite operators thrive in some

of the most hostile conditions imaginable.

Not one to just sit on the sidelines, he himself has gone through some of these protocols,

including becoming a full-fledged aquanaut by spending ten full days underwater.

And what I want to know is it'd be pretty easy for you at this point to just sit back,

do some research, what drives you to do things like spending ten days underwater.

Well, I've always had an interest in environmental extremes and pushing the limits outside of

academia, outside of my kind of normal wheelhouse to go out in the field and experiment with

the things that we're doing in the lab and on rats and mice and in cell culture to see

the real world applications when it comes to implementation.

I was focused on how our brain controls our physiology, so that was really the main focus

of my PhD work.

I transitioned into studying why the brain actually has seizures, so the mechanisms and

sort of the molecular mechanisms, why we have seizures under those conditions.

And as I moved along in that research, it became more interesting to me to develop not only

how to predict these seizures, why they occur, but to develop mitigation strategies.

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