: Episode 691 – Dr. Susan Masino joins Vinnie Tortorich today to discuss metabolism and brain health, in regards to the mechanisms that control how a ketogenic diet positively affects our bodies.
DR. SUSAN MASINO
- She is a professor of Applied Science at Trinity College
- Has been conducting research there for two decades
- Has been doing research, in general, for even longer!
- Focus is adenosine and its effects on homeostasis and metabolism
- Regulator of cell function
- Her real passion is brain health
- She is now connected to the ketogenic community and the brain health community
KETOGENIC DIET
- Susan Masino does believe that a ketogenic diet is incredibly beneficial
- Her goal is to figure out how this diet can help not only epilepsy, but other diseases
- For example, autism spectrum disorder
- Used as a treatment for epilepsy for 100 years now
WHAT IS ADENOSINE?
- Adenosine is core molecule of ATP
- We need ATP to function (adenosine triphosphate — energy)
- Adenosine is present throughout the brain and body
- Not just in cases where there are strokes
- Regulatory influence on our cells
BRAIN HEALTH
- Her hypothesis: Ketone-based metabolism increases adenosine which increases brain health and homeostasis
- In turn, this helps neurological disorders such as epilepsy
- Healthy metabolism (sufficient amount of ATP) is so vital
- Ketogenic diet increases ATP produced
- Your brain can use KETONES instead of sugar for its overall metabolic demand
- Plus, you have plenty enough sugar in NSNG diet
- New info coming up on brain cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more
- Dr. Masino focuses on: autism, epilepsy, and pain
- Brain health needs to become a major public policy issue
- Not enough folks focus on why what happens to us happens to us
- More evidence leading to diet as a source of many issues, or at least the worsening of these issues
- Not enough folks focus on why what happens to us happens to us
