In the third trimester, babies' serum ketone levels are significantly higher than their mothers', indicating the body shunts ketones to the fetus for brain development.

“in the third trimester like I said we have these high ketone levels in pregnancy physiology as high as like I think it was 2.2 mil moles in the umbilical cord of some of these babies and then breastfed babies have higher higher utilization of ketones more than 30% because breast milk is high in MCTS”

“and you know if even kids you know toddlers young kids like they're gonna have ketones all the time it's not a bad thing it's good for their brains and I love that you pointed out that in utero ketones are used for metabolic processes in the brain and crucial for myelin ization of the neurons so kids kids don't fear ketones and we shouldn't fear kids being in ketosis”

“there was a study that looked at at the time of every among human to deliver and they checked the moms serum Keystone level and then they looked at the umbilical cord levels of the baby's ketone level and the baby's ketone levels were significantly higher than the mom's which means that the body was actually shunting more ketones to the baby”

“and then breastfed babies have higher higher utilization of ketones more than 30% because breast milk”

“and you've heard you speaking talks about the fact that kids and babies going to ketosis really fast it's super important and you know I just realized something by listening to Julian Chile's today because she was talking about breastfeeding and she brought up something that I hadn't really thought about and that is that the birth experience gives you brain trauma I mean yeah you've got this head that's going freeze yeah and so they go into ketosis immediately and it's really important for them in and I've talked about before about how they're growing their brain”

“and so one of the observations that has been made is that kids go in ketosis very quickly yeah yeah and far faster than adults and I mean in in beta in newborn babies that basically guaranteed to be in ketosis for at least the first week of life because either the mother isn't producing any breast milk so they'll immediately there immediately fasting and they're immediately essentially immediately produced ketones or there are medium chain triglycerides in the breast milk that will then cause ketosis like it would in any of our suit regular MCT oil or something so basically the newborn baby regardless of what happens it has to be in ketosis is just an essential part of brain development”

“babies basically take like 12 hours to keto adapt after they're born and it's probably lactate that's providing a lot of energy to their brain in the first 12 hours but then once they once they cue to adapt they're they're making tons of ketones”

“and breastfed babies are making even more ketones than formula-fed babies”

“ketones provide about 30 percent of the energy to that baby's brain okay ketones are very normal and probably a protective survival mechanism of mammals”

“babies are essentially you know ketogenic in the in the third trimester and um we know that the babies are actually making their own ketones because we've looked at studies where we look at the fetal cord blood versus the the maternal blood and babies actually measure usually around 2.0 millimoles whereas the maternal serum levels are typically around 1.0 millimoles”

“actually right after birth probably within 12 hours after birth we see the sharp increase actually in ketogenic enzymes along with an increase in free fatty acids in the baby and that's because human babies we have large brains this is how we're different than other mammals we have these big brains and we need lots of fat and cholesterol and these ketones actually are important for myelination of the brains and for for fetal development”

“there is no question that he's gonna promote mitochondrial respiration and we know as you know when we're born as infants we rely primarily for neuro function and everything else on on these ketone bodies produced by by the labor but because of the kind of lipids that we get through the mother's milk so essentially what we're trying to do is bring in somebody who is in all age to rely more on ketosis”

“so they're basically getting medium chain triglycerides thread milk yes the immune change I glycerides being the main source there for energy conversion as opposed to some of the other triglycerides”