Rhonda Patrick· PhD
If you just go to clinicaltrials.gov and google and just or just type in ketone supplement, I think you get like 30 or 40 clinical trials that are looking at ketone supplements. And just a few years ago, there was none, right?
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.
If you just go to clinicaltrials.gov and google and just or just type in ketone supplement, I think you get like 30 or 40 clinical trials that are looking at ketone supplements. And just a few years ago, there was none, right?
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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It's so much easier to do a ketone supplement as opposed to a ketogenic diet for a...randomized controlled clinical trial is very hard with a ketogenic diet, right? But with a supplement, you can have a control, you can do things.