Metabolic switching, including ketone body production, signaling effects on BDNF, reduced reactive oxygen species, and autophagy activation, helps manage aging by activating stress response pathways.

“the benefits of metabolic switching, the production of ketone bodies like beta-hydroxybutyrate, and their signaling effects on BDNF, you know, increasing BDNF, and also producing less reactive oxygen species, because they're more energetically favorable or easier by the mitochondria. It seems as though activating autophagy, as you mentioned, you know, the clearing away of damaged stuff and organelles and things within a cell. Like those, you know, sorts of effects happening, even if the magnitude isn't as great. It seems as though like that has to be beneficial long term in terms of like activating stress response pathways, that are going to help you deal with the stresses of aging better.”