Peter Attia

Alternatively, it's the creamer in my coffee, and it's fantastic.

But let's go way back to the beginning.

Circa 2011...

you had basically only two products you could consume.

You had a beta-hydroxybutyrate monoester.

Actually, there were more than that.

There was a ketone salt, which we should talk about, and you had an acetoacetate diester.

Is that correct?

So just explain to people, I mean, unfortunately we have to get into a little biochemistry here for you to explain the difference between esters and salts.

And so to everybody listening, apologies, but if you want to understand these things and you have to, if you want to be a consumer of them, because everybody is talking about these things as though they're the same and they're categorically not the same.

Most people have no idea what they're talking about.

And most people who are selling these things are not being transparent about what it is you're buying.

They just call everything a ketone.

Let's do a little bit of biochemistry, Dom.

Oh, he passed away.

Sorry, just before we leave that, you said 1,3-butanediol elevates beta-hydroxybutyrate.

Let's explain how and why.

Let's take a step back here.

If I asked you to consume 100 grams of ethanol a day for two weeks, your transaminases would go up.

I've done that before.