Upgrade Spotlight: Enhance Your Performance with Ketones - Michael Brandt
Dave Asprey
Aug 16, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Utilize ketones for energy and hunger suppression
Unlike other sources of calories, ketones cannot be stored as fat in the body; they are a use-it-or-lose-it energy source that also suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin.
Boost meditation duration and depth with ketones
Taking ketones can allow you to meditate two and a half times longer and deeper, as advanced meditation is a metabolically demanding state that benefits from more brain energy.
Utilize ketones to enhance EPO production for better oxygen capacity
Beyond being just a fuel, ketones act as signaling molecules that can trigger your body to naturally produce more EPO, a hormone that increases the oxygen-carrying capacity of your red blood cells.
Leverage fermentation to access affordable ketone supplements
The cost of potent ketone supplements has dropped dramatically thanks to a fermentation process that uses bacteria to convert plant biomass into ketone diols, similar to a high-tech kombucha factory.
Utilize ketone diols for safer ketone supplementation
Ketone diols are a novel ketone precursor that your liver converts in one regulated step, avoiding the issues of ketone salts and the uncontrolled spikes from ketone esters.
Use Ketone IQ for brain protection during flights
Dave Asprey takes Ketone IQ every time he flies to provide mitochondrial protection from the increased ionizing radiation and oxidative stress experienced at high altitudes.
Utilize ketones to enhance mitochondrial efficiency for performance
Ketones allow your mitochondria to produce the energy currency ATP using less oxygen than other fuels, which is why they are so effective for performance at high altitude or during intense exercise.
Utilize ketones to enhance recovery after brain injury
Ketones can rescue brain energy after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) by providing a fuel source that bypasses the damaged insulin-mediated glucose metabolism.
Enhance fasting with Ketone IQ for sustained energy
Taking a shot of Ketone IQ during a fast provides your body with ketones and energy, making the fast much easier without spiking insulin or MTOR, thus preserving the key metabolic benefits.
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