Dominic D'Agostino

I believe from what I last heard, I can't talk about it too much, but I think some of the data is very encouraging.

There was case reports that combined a ketogenic diet with

ketamine and that put anorexia into remission and there's been quite a bit of buzz about that and for anorexia typically you steer people away from any kind of dietary restriction yeah that would be traditional thinking yeah but the effects of the ketogenic diet on neuropharmacology on the hedonic response on stabilizing your mood and other factors that could play into anorexia

seem to be at play.

I was super skeptical because it flies in the face of everything that I know.

We have one of the leading experts at University of South Florida, Deanna Ranquart.

I remember talking to her about it, and she was a little bit skeptical, but the data coming out looks very promising and compelling.

So there's continuing emerging data on psychiatric disorders, largely funded by the Bazooki Group, I think exclusively funded by Jan and David Bazooki, their foundation.

And I think they're funding million-dollar studies at

Six of them that I know, you have Ohio State University, Stanford, Oxford, Stony Brook, UCSD, UCLA, I think Edinburgh, there's a study too.

I'm just looking at the different applications.

So they're funding many different studies, mostly across severe psychiatric disorders.

Primarily the ketogenic diet, although having served as a reviewer because they have a study section.

In the pipeline of emerging studies that they're funding, I would say quite a few studies will be incorporating exogenous ketone supplementation.

So they see that as an innovative approach and a necessary approach for the feasibility of therapeutic ketosis because with a psychiatric disorder, it's really difficult to get someone to adhere to a ketogenic diet with bipolar, with schizophrenia.

I mean, it's like a nightmare.

It depends.

People don't like that answer.

And it's also very context dependent.

But I'll say this, that there are benefits that you get from carbohydrate restriction that cannot be replicated with exogenous ketone supplementation.