Dr. Annette Bosworth

But if you can train it to use fat in that training, it's a longer, better fuel with less inflammation, and especially in a state where it will use both fuels quickly, that takes time.

I mean, it takes, and what I tell patients is, you'll love me in 18 months.

You'll think I'm pretty great at six months.

But if you're trying to run a marathon and we're only three to four weeks out, you should not start a ketogenic diet.

You're going to think it's the worst thing ever.

It's meant to train muscles to use fat.

And that takes time.

Yeah, you know, it's one of the saddest places where if you look at what patients regret in life, they come into the clinic and they're already starting to say, I was driving the other day and I got lost.

And when I hear that, we are 15 years too late.

It is 15 years of building up trash in that brain that we have to clean out that debris.

And I had the privilege of an amazing story that taught me, I don't have the gift of seeing into the future.

Am I gonna reverse these Alzheimer's before they show up?

We don't have the research for it, but I have a lot of clinical experience saying, boy, they are so much better.

I don't know if their memory is gonna stay this good.

We're only three years into a ketogenic diet, but it's way better than when it started.

And then I had a Down syndrome patient

at 40 years old in my practice.

So her mother came to see me first.

She said, I want to try this ketogenic diet.

I've been helping my daughter who has Down syndrome.