Rhonda Patrick

You can kind of think of it as like a precursor, ketone precursor.

Whereas the one I'm taking right now, I can just take, boom, right away.

I'll feel it immediately.

And then I continue to feel it over the next couple of hours.

It's also given me a little bit more motivation to revisit my experimentation with ketogenic diet, certainly cycling.

I like the way I feel.

I like the calming effect.

And that largely has to do with, I had a podcast with Dr. Mark Mattson a few years back, and

And he was explaining, you know, when you're in ketosis and your body is making beta-hydroxybutyrate in ketones, the beta-hydroxybutyrate appears to – it gets into the brain and it sort of shifts the balance between GABA, a neurotransmitter, inhibitory neurotransmitter, and glutamate, which is more of an excitatory neurotransmitter.

And it tips the balance more towards GABA.

And that sort of has this anxiolytic effect where you feel calmer and you're less anxious.

So for me, that is hugely beneficial because I do sometimes have an amount of background anxiety, particularly if I have to perform well.

And so I like that sort of calm focus that I feel when I have – when I'm either in ketosis because I have experimented with ketogenic diets and I do remember that being one of the most profound effects that I noticed when I was doing a ketogenic diet –

And also I've been in ketosis from fasting, same thing.

And then I've tried exogenous ketones.

And so they all sort of replicate that feeling of sort of calm focus, which I do really like.

I see people in the chat asking, Faisal's asking about advice on sleep and shift work.

We are going to do a little bit of a deep dive on sleep today.

So we'll talk more about that later.

I want to go ahead and get some of the rapid fire questions.