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: 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.

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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

: Episode 711 – Vinnie speaks with special guests writer & director Jim Abrahams (Airplane, Naked Gun, etc) and author Susan Masino talk about fighting seizures with a ketogenic diet.

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JIM ABRAHAMS AND SUSAN MASINO

• Susan is a luminary
  • Was on the podcast a few weeks ago
  • 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
• Jim Abrahams is a famous director and screen-writer
  • Movies such as Airplane!, Hot Shots!, and many more! 
    • 1971, he and the Zucker brothers moved to LA to try to get on Johnny Carson
      • From Milwaukee
      • The three ended up being huge in the industry!
  • Started The Charlie Foundation

FIGHTING SEIZURES

• Jim Abrahams’ son, Charlie, suffered from seizures
  • Charlie adopted a ketogenic diet, and is seizure free!
  • The Charlie Foundation was set up to help fight epilepsy via a ketogenic diet 
• Check out the Foundation’s website here 
• 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
• 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

: Episode 713 – Vinnie and Anna talk about a la carte gyms, cord-cutting, studies from the 60’s that prove high-fat diets don’t increase cholesterol and much much more.

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PROPAGANDA

• Propaganda really rules our lives
• Ex: Michael Jackson called himself the King of Pop until it caught on
  • We see it in politics every day, too
• It is all the spreading of the word
• Hence, how Vinnie has called Anna the Best Voice in Podcasting, and now she is!

INFLAMMATION AND DEPRESSION

• As we know, sugars and grains can cause inflammation
• There has been a connection between inflammation and depression
• Important, especially if mental health issues run in your family
• Susan Masino talks about this 

A LA CARTE GYMS

• Gyms now are very expensive
• Gyms are probably going to charge based off of what you wanna use at the gym
• Ex: if you just want to go for the running, you will only pay to use the treadmills
• A La Carte is the future!
  • Just like how people use cable less now, too, and rather buy Hulu and Netflix, and the like
• Classes at gyms are also incredibly important for the success of gyms
• Places like SoulCycle are examples of A La Carte gyms
• Every big box gym has specified pools, classes, turfs, etc., to try and cater to this new desire 

HIGH FAT DIETS & CHOLESTEROL

• Studies from the ’60s even show that high-fat diets don’t cause cholesterol to go up
• More and more studies these days are supporting that evidence
• The SAD diet was concocted by the sugar industry, and the government was paid to support it 
• People in the NSNG Facebook group have actually showed that their cholesterol went down/got way better since starting the No Sugar No Grains lifestyle

: Episode 707 – Dominic D’Agostino rejoins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday edition of Fitness Confidential podcast. The two discuss ketogenic diets, and ketosis and weight loss.

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DR. DOMINIC D’AGOSTINO

• Dominic has been coming on the show since the very start
• He is the associate professor at USF, college of medicine
  • Department of molecular pharmacology and physiology
• Also senior research scientist at Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
• Has his PhD of course
• Susan Masino is a colleague of his
• Check out his website here
• He is a big proponent of the ketogenic diet
• Check out his book here

Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies: Expanded Roles in Health and Disease

KETOSIS AND SEIZURE CONTROL

• Started doing research for ketogenic diet in 2010
• Did research into deep diving seizures and a ketogenic diet

KETOSIS AND WEIGHT LOSS

• There was a study that came out that said ketogenic diet was not conducive to weight loss
  • Contradicts much of what we know!
• From the medical community that implements this diet for medical purposes, even they agree that this diet is helpful for weight loss
• Weight loss is a “side effect” of ketosis
• Ketosis dampens your appetite
• When you are eating ketogenic diet, you will feel more sated from less
• You also stop eating less processed crap which is the stuff that makes you hungrier
• Exogenous ketones: these are the ketones that you can consume in powder
  • Can help get into ketosis without actually consuming that much of fat
    • Better just to be in real ketosis, consuming lots of fat
  • Exogenous ketones can help some, but others it has no effect
    • Dr. D’Agostino did this experiment with rodents
      • They were eating carb diets, and a good amount did not lose weight even with exogenous ketones
        • Some were able to lose 15% body fat, but this was only in a few
          • They are looking into why that is the case