Brady Holmer

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Physiologically Speaking · How I Use Ketones · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

I've been using them for a long time, probably for five to six years, and this is a space that I've been interested in for a while.

There's a company known as HVMN, Health Via Modern Nutrition.

Way back in graduate school, I started working for HVMN, writing blog posts for HVMN, and getting into this space of exogenous ketones.

And at the time, HVMN was selling ketone esters, which still exist, sold by other companies.

But now ketone, HVMN is kind of now ketone IQ, and they sell 1,3-butanediol.

It's a different kind of ketone, a ketone precursor that your body takes, uses to make beta-hydroxybutyrate, the main ketone body.

And so I've been following ketones, using ketones for a long time, and

The science initially started out in exercise performance.

People were looking at, researchers were looking at, how might these ketones be used during exercise to potentially enhance endurance exercise performance?

Because during exercise, we can burn fat, we can burn carbs.

Ketones are this sort of alternative or so-called fourth fuel, fourth macronutrient that our skeletal muscles, our brain can use to...

create energy, create ATP.

So the thinking was that if you can provide exogenous ketones, ketone drinks, something like that, during exercise, that you could potentially spare muscle glycogen, your body would use this, and basically perform better during exercise.

There's some pretty interesting literature in the effects of exogenous ketones in exercise performance, but

In the last decade or so, it's been pretty underwhelming, to be honest.

Not even enough to justify me saying, you know, I'm going to take these before a race and think that I'm going to race better.

Okay, so where does that leave us?

Well, there is an emerging literature on exogenous ketones and how they can be used for exercise recovery.

I actually just finished recording a podcast with Dr. Lat Mansour from Ketone IQ discussing that study.

So that'll be interesting to get out and see people's thoughts on that.

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