Dominic D'Agostino

And through time, basically, we settled on a ratio of sodium, potassium to calcium, similar to Element.

So they're kind of ahead.

But Element is sodium chloride.

So Ketostart, or from Audacious Nutrition, is sodium beta hydroxybutyrate and the calcium.

And it's got a spread of electrolytes that are similar.

So you're giving electrolytes and also giving ketones.

And that's

really important when you start a ketogenic diet because you're replenishing the electrolytes that you are spilling out more through a natriuretic effect, especially the sodium.

And also there's an energetic gap in the brain when you start a ketogenic diet where you have an energetic need for the increase in ketones.

Yeah.

The energetic effects, FGG PET scan, you're going to see like less brain glucose utilization for one thing.

And then you have the contraction of plasma volume because as you lose water and electrolytes so that you might have orthostatic hypotension, you get the brain fog.

And then you have electrolytes, which are literally molecules that are involved in action potentials and keeping membrane potentials in cells.

And all these can be kind of mitigated through ketone salts.

Have an advantage over the ketone esters.

They also have the advantage because the mineral delays gastric absorption.

So when you take a dose of a ketone salt, it does not cause an insulin effect.

If you drink a ketone ester or a large dose of 1,3-butanediol,

and I've done this before, and you do an insulin measurement an hour after, you're going to see your insulin levels increase.

So the increase seems to be proportional to the differential.