Rhonda Patrick

I didn't get to do any of my high-intensity interval training this morning, and that usually gives me a pump of lactate.

And that lactate gets into the brain, and it really sort of gives me a little extra pump so that I can feel cognitively ready to do this Q&A.

And so I took my exogenous ketones because beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the major circulating ketone, and it's the one that's found in all these exogenous ketone products.

acts very similar to lactate in a sense, where it activates a lot of the same genetic pathways, including brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

It's also anxiolytic.

So what I find when I take some exogenous ketones is that I feel it's not the same as like drinking a cup of coffee, but I feel focused, but a very calm focus.

So

It seems to calm me a little bit and allow me to focus better.

And I really like that.

So when it comes to the type of ketones right now, I don't have any affiliation with any brands.

But I've been experimenting with Delta G. And this is what's known as the Oxford ketone.

It was developed by Dr. Richard Veach and Kieran Clark, who is at Oxford.

It's the real deal.

It's the ketone that was sort of developed with funding from DARPA.

And it was really – the aim was to kind of help military personnel be able to be cognitively on their game during very stressful periods where they're sleep-deprived, perhaps not eating under a lot of just stressful conditions.

And so –

That is the ketone I'm doing.

And the reason I'm experimenting with that one is because it's the only... Actually, the Oxford ketone is the only ketone out there that actually is the beta-hydroxybutyrate ester.

That one and also...

KetoneAid, which was started by Richard Beach, that one also uses the same ketone ester.