Peter Attia

We defaulted.

Hey, we've got these people that are experiencing this awful thing.

Now they had EEGs back then, but they really didn't know much.

And when were these first identified?

So you've got Banting and Best identify insulin or at least isolate insulin in the 1920s.

Yes.

So that's really, in my mind, I think of that as kind of the golden era of metabolism.

When were ketones first isolated, BHB specifically?

They didn't understand why.

Mechanistically, I mean.

Because if I understand correctly, Dom, if you took 100 patients who are drug resistant, so they're having nonstop seizures despite all the best available pharmacology, my recollection, this could be incorrect and you can update this,

is that a ketogenic diet will completely cure one-third of them, will cause about a 50% reduction in seizure activity for another third of them, while one-third of them will still be unresponsive.

Is that still directionally correct?

You've obviously experimented a lot with a ketogenic diet yourself.

I mean, when did you first try a ketogenic diet?

I was about to say, the strips were $5 to $10 each at the time.

Yeah, you hooked me up at one point and we were able to get them for like $1.50 or something.

But I was going through three a day.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.