Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Because I've identified for myself, part of the reason I have fat in my tea, is I operated best mentally at around 1.1 to 1.7 millimolars and I only figured that out by tracking.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Because I've identified for myself, part of the reason I have fat in my tea, is I operated best mentally at around 1.1 to 1.7 millimolars and I only figured that out by tracking.
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So I have a device just on the counter over there, a Precision Xtra device by Abbott Labs that allows me to use both glucose strips and ketone strips. So I can look at my fasting or waking fasting glucose level and then ketone level and monitor that after certain types of, say, exercise when the ketone level can drop and so on and so forth.