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But they're also a signaling molecule. So it's a way for the body, you know, to signal to other parts of the body like, hey, this is a stressful time. There's no food. I'm, you know, burn. I'm I'm in ketosis. um let's let's make you stronger, right? Because that's kind of what evolution wants. Like if you're not able to find or eat food, you have to be stronger to be able to do it, right?
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this is kind of another hypothesis that I advanced in my book that there are multiple ways to get these benefits and a ketogenic diet might be one of them I call it living a radical life
if we just modify our diet in certain ways we can trick the body into thinking that times are gonna be tough that we're running out of food or that we're getting chased by saber-toothed tiger and our bodies will fight for us against aging
as we've seen in animal models we obviously can't study this very well in humans the ketogenic diet is lifespan expending extended you know it's it's mimicking caloric restriction and turning on these longevity genes
if we just modify our diet in certain ways we can trick the body into thinking that times are going to be tough that we're running out of food or that we're getting chased by a saber-toothed tiger and our bodies will fight for us against aging