In the introduction to this series
(#322
here), I say, “I have become newly motivated…to introduce ketones to my
body every day…as a prophylactic and perhaps therapeutic practice.” And that after I said I was motivated to
continue “…to be very low carb/keto-adapted in my dietary practices.” For the
new reader, I have been a Type 2 Diabetic for 30 years and an advocate of Very
Low Carb eating for almost 14. With this WOE (Way of Eating), I have achieved
1) weight loss (170 lbs.), without hunger, 2) infinitely better blood sugar
control, and 3) blockbuster improvements in blood lipids, specifically much higher HDL-C and much lower serum triglycerides.
This latest motivation comes from
having attended the 3-day Nutritional Ketosis and Metabolic Therapeutics
Conference in Tampa, FL, January 28-30. The sold-out meeting was presented by
and intended for academics and clinicians (PhDs and MDs), and included many
icons and luminaries in the field. As one of very few lay people attending, it
was both eye opening and inspirational and a privilege to be present in this
rarefied atmosphere.
My biggest takeaway was the very
strong association shown in several presentations between the metabolic
diseases whose incipient cause is insulin resistance at the cellular level both
in the body and the brain, i.e. Type 2
Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Disease
(AD), the latter characterized by
insulin resistance and glucose disregulation in specific regions of the brain. This similarity is explored in
depth (for the serious reader) here in this
2008 peer- reviewed article (cited 68 times in PubMed), “Alzheimer’s Disease is Type 3 Diabetes – Evidence Reviewed,” by
Suzanne M. de la Monte, M.D. I found this link on the website of Dr. Mary
Newport, a conference presenter.
For the layman, Mark Bittman,
former food writer at The New York Times, in 2012 wrote this
opinion piece, “Is Alzheimer’s Type
3 Diabetes?” He must have seen Suzanne de la Monte on The Oz Show, where
she appeared and then wrote this
“fantastic and detailed summary” (Bittman), “Alzheimer’s: Diabetes of the Brain?” The best précis of the de la
Monte piece, however, was in Bittman’s NYT piece. Here are selected excerpts:
“Let’s connect the dots: We
know that the American diet is a fast track not only to obesity but to Type 2
diabetes and other preventable, non-communicable diseases, which now account
for more deaths worldwide than all other causes combined. We also already know that people with diabetes are at least twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s, and that obesity alone increases the risk of impaired brain function.
What’s new is the thought that while diabetes doesn’t ‘cause’ Alzheimer’s, they
have the same root: an over consumption of those foods that mess with insulin’s
many roles.”
Bittman,
never one of my favorite food writers, especially after writing “VB6, Vegan
before 6:00,” concluded,
“The link between diet and dementia negates our notion of Alzheimer’s as
a condition that befalls us by chance. Adopting a sane diet, a diet contrary to
the standard American diet (which I like to refer to as SAD), would appear to
give you a far better shot at avoiding diabetes in all of its forms, along with its dreaded complications” [my
emphasis on 'all'].
So far
these points only make an argument for what I am already doing personally and
cajoling my readers to do. However, the evidence presented at this conference,
and in follow-up reading, has persuaded me to introduce ketones to my body every day as a prophylactic and/or
therapeutic practice. Why?
To avoid damage to the brain that evidence suggests occurs long
before mild cognitive impairment (MCI) begins or is detectable. What
is the rationale for this reliance on the daily availability of ketones?
“Ketone bodies are an alternative fuel for brain cells
when glucose availability is insufficient,” Richard L. Veech says in this academic article in the Neurobiology of Aging: “A ketone ester diet exhibits anxiolytic and
cognition-sparing properties, and lessens amyloid and tau pathologies in a
mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.” Dr. Veech is one of my (and Dr. Newport’s)
favorite researchers. I quoted him in #322 and in four other blog posts
going back 5 years. His 2013 piece above has already been cited in PubMed 30
times. Dr. Leech concludes:
“The present findings show that long-term feeding of ketone esters not
only improved behavioral cognitive function but also decreased Aβ and pTau
pathologic changes. The increase in blood ketone bodies, by either a ketogenic
diet or by feeding a ketone ester, would be expected to alleviate the impaired
brain glucose metabolism that precedes the onset of AD. Ketone bodies can
bypass the block in glycolysis resulting from impairment of insulin function (Kashiwaya et al.,
1997). Our preclinical findings suggest that a ketone ester-containing diet
has the potential to retard the disease process and improve cognitive function
of patients with AD.”
Thus, absent strict, daily adherence to a ketogenic
diet, which is an onerous task, my “insurance” to assure the prophylactic and/or therapeutic
benefit of ketone bodies on my brain metabolism is to supplement
with ketones.
Only skimmed the article (have read all of it from original sources). Great content, but: Make Sure that you are drinking Lots of water, to flush the ketones out of your kidneys!
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