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Sal DiStefano

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

It's very interesting. And to go through that process, to feel it yourself and know, like, you know, running off of different fuel source, like ketones versus glucose, it's, it's significant. And for me, it is the sharpness and it's, it's the memory recall is, is definitely enhanced.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

It's very interesting. And to go through that process, to feel it yourself and know, like, you know, running off of different fuel source, like ketones versus glucose, it's, it's significant. And for me, it is the sharpness and it's, it's the memory recall is, is definitely enhanced.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

It's very interesting. And to go through that process, to feel it yourself and know, like, you know, running off of different fuel source, like ketones versus glucose, it's, it's significant. And for me, it is the sharpness and it's, it's the memory recall is, is definitely enhanced.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Now, ketogenic diet is not great for strength and power and for building muscle. For me, if I'm trying to build muscle, I'm not going to go into ketogenic diet. I'm trying to maximize my gains. If I want to hit a PR and a deadlift or whatever, I'm not going to eat ketogenic. But for cognitive performance, this is amazing. So what I do when I'm going to go on these trips...

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Now, ketogenic diet is not great for strength and power and for building muscle. For me, if I'm trying to build muscle, I'm not going to go into ketogenic diet. I'm trying to maximize my gains. If I want to hit a PR and a deadlift or whatever, I'm not going to eat ketogenic. But for cognitive performance, this is amazing. So what I do when I'm going to go on these trips...

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Now, ketogenic diet is not great for strength and power and for building muscle. For me, if I'm trying to build muscle, I'm not going to go into ketogenic diet. I'm trying to maximize my gains. If I want to hit a PR and a deadlift or whatever, I'm not going to eat ketogenic. But for cognitive performance, this is amazing. So what I do when I'm going to go on these trips...

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Unless these are like easy podcasts, sometimes I won't. But if I'm going to go and I want to really kick ass, I go into that day already ketogenic. And that's how I eat while I'm there. If I'm going to go do a talk, if I'm going to go to, you know, last year I did a talk. at the Peptide Congress. It's my first time doing a talk to a room full of doctors, at least representing Mind Pump.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Unless these are like easy podcasts, sometimes I won't. But if I'm going to go and I want to really kick ass, I go into that day already ketogenic. And that's how I eat while I'm there. If I'm going to go do a talk, if I'm going to go to, you know, last year I did a talk. at the Peptide Congress. It's my first time doing a talk to a room full of doctors, at least representing Mind Pump.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Unless these are like easy podcasts, sometimes I won't. But if I'm going to go and I want to really kick ass, I go into that day already ketogenic. And that's how I eat while I'm there. If I'm going to go do a talk, if I'm going to go to, you know, last year I did a talk. at the Peptide Congress. It's my first time doing a talk to a room full of doctors, at least representing Mind Pump.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

I went into it ketogenic. I'm gonna be doing it again coming up here and I think it's June or July where I'll be going back and doing that. Ketogenic diet and the data, I mean, it's one of the best diets for cognitive performance. It just shows it across the board. Yeah, neuroprotective. The brain seems to be sharper. People can think faster.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

I went into it ketogenic. I'm gonna be doing it again coming up here and I think it's June or July where I'll be going back and doing that. Ketogenic diet and the data, I mean, it's one of the best diets for cognitive performance. It just shows it across the board. Yeah, neuroprotective. The brain seems to be sharper. People can think faster.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

I went into it ketogenic. I'm gonna be doing it again coming up here and I think it's June or July where I'll be going back and doing that. Ketogenic diet and the data, I mean, it's one of the best diets for cognitive performance. It just shows it across the board. Yeah, neuroprotective. The brain seems to be sharper. People can think faster.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

So if you want to improve or boost cognitive performance, if that's really what's important to you, then experiment with it. Try it for yourself. Within a week or two, you'll probably notice some benefits. It's typically how long it takes.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

So if you want to improve or boost cognitive performance, if that's really what's important to you, then experiment with it. Try it for yourself. Within a week or two, you'll probably notice some benefits. It's typically how long it takes.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

So if you want to improve or boost cognitive performance, if that's really what's important to you, then experiment with it. Try it for yourself. Within a week or two, you'll probably notice some benefits. It's typically how long it takes.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Yeah, ketones operate. The brain operates very well on ketones. It prefers it, apparently, yeah. But when it comes to strength and athletic performance, you want glycogen, right? Because it's faster. It's just faster. You can lift more. You're stronger. For bodybuilders, they get better pumps.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Yeah, ketones operate. The brain operates very well on ketones. It prefers it, apparently, yeah. But when it comes to strength and athletic performance, you want glycogen, right? Because it's faster. It's just faster. You can lift more. You're stronger. For bodybuilders, they get better pumps.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

Yeah, ketones operate. The brain operates very well on ketones. It prefers it, apparently, yeah. But when it comes to strength and athletic performance, you want glycogen, right? Because it's faster. It's just faster. You can lift more. You're stronger. For bodybuilders, they get better pumps.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

But for the brain, you take someone with Alzheimer's or dementia, so extreme cognitive decline, you put them on a ketogenic diet and you see improvements in their thinking. Now, someone who's healthy, what you'll notice is you're just sharper. You just feel much sharper.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2598: The 5 Best Diets for Any Goal & More (Listener Coaching)

But for the brain, you take someone with Alzheimer's or dementia, so extreme cognitive decline, you put them on a ketogenic diet and you see improvements in their thinking. Now, someone who's healthy, what you'll notice is you're just sharper. You just feel much sharper.