Dominic D'Agostino

But if your protein goes from like 250 grams a day to like 70 to 80 grams per day, you're going to lose a lot of muscle.

It's very context dependent to, I was kind of in the gym and I was even training with Lane at the time.

They're avoiding like work from Donald Lehman and Stu Phillips and guys that I think you might've had on the podcast.

So yeah, I learned a lot of lessons.

I learned that clinical ketogenic diet skyrockets my LDL and ApoB.

I've learned how to manage that pharmacologically.

I have a mutation for the MPC1L1 receptor.

So a tiny dose of azetamide brings that down.

But most importantly, I realized that titrating the protein in

to meet your needs for protein.

And if you're an athlete, if you have a high metabolic rate, if you're trying to gain muscle, you do have to leverage protein.

And that becomes the key factor, I think.

The key variable in getting the ketogenic diet to work for you and also tracking your lipids is really important.

Not tracking.

I mean, people do it.

They're just like, oh, I'm just going to eat this or that and not try.

It's like, no, you need to like just write it.

You don't have to do it every day, day in and day out.

But use a good tracking metric.

Carbon app is great.