Dominic D'Agostino

And I have, I think, compliments of Ken Ford, some of the MIT reports of testing this compound from the 1960s.

And then there was a report written by people at NASA where they were basically looking at this as a long-duration spaceflight food.

1,3-butanediol, which is an alcohol.

It's a di-alcohol or a glycol.

It is remarkably ketogenic, which means you consume it and you elevate beta-hydroxybutyrate, and it's incredibly stable, so hence for long-duration space flight.

Also, it preserves food.

In the report, they basically soaked, they put it into some biscuits.

And the biscuits were like extremely shelf stable.

So it's a humectant, which means it keeps food moist.

It's actually grass approved to be put in sausage casings and things like that.

So that existed.

That was 1,3-butanediol.

And there was two people who really I'd like to credit, Dr. Henri Bruningrabber from Case Western and Dr. Richard Veach, the late Dr. Richard Veach.

A mentor of mine.

Yeah, he passed away two or three years ago, I think.

And I remember Dr. Veach saying, because I was trying to acquire his ketone ester for some studies and ultimately used the 1,3-butanediol or the monoester beta-hydroxybutyrate for seizures, but it didn't work.

And I will pivot and talk about that.

So you have 1,3-butanediol was the original ketogenic molecule.

And then you have two people who spearheaded ketone esters.

Okay, yeah.