Let's talk about why babies thrive on keto.

Now when a woman is pregnant, especially during the last trimester, 30% of all the energy

fed to that baby is from ketones, and then once they're born, the first two hours, they're

going to be running off of lactate, that's milk sugar, but then they're going to convert

right to ketones.

So ketones are very normal for a newborn.

Ketones are not supposed to be an alternative fuel.

In fact, breast milk is loaded with MCT fats, medium chain triglycerides, which are then turned

into ketones.

A baby's brain makes up between 11 and 12% of their entire body weight as compared to

an adult brain, which only makes up 2% of the weight.

Yet in a newborn, 75% of all the energy that they use is for the brain.

If we compare this to an adult, we use 20 to 25% of our energy for our brain.

So as you can see, this brain is very, very important for survival.

It's very important to allocate the majority of fuel because it is going to be the organ

that runs the entire body.

But here's the fascinating thing.

Ketones not only provide a good amount of fuel for the infant's brain, they also provide

the building blocks for lipids of an infant's brain.

I'm talking about the cholesterol and the myelin sheath that's around the nerves in the

brain.

Ketones supply the brain with 90% of the carbon to make the white matter.

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