Welcome back to The KetoHacking MD Podcast. The Ketogenic diet is all the rage right now, and for good reason. We love the keto lifestyle and on this show we take it a step further and look at ways to supercharge your keto experience. We call that KetoHacking. Last week we introduced our newest hack experiment that we will be pursuing for the next several weeks using red light therapy. Today Jimmy and John talk about how they are using it and what results they are getting in this latest Keto Hack experiment.

Listen in today as Jimmy and John discuss:

• How podcasts and alternative media are making health experimentation and biohacking more mainstream
• How adding other health hacks to your keto diet can enhance your results
• What red light does for your health
• The dangers of blue light
• How the JOOVV is helping them
• How to get the most from the JOOVV device
• How red light could affect your sleep
• and much more.

"When you talk to people about keto they are receptive, but if you ask them about ice baths most people turn around and walk away." – Dr. John Limansky

"I think in five years biohacks like red light therapy will become the norm." – Jimmy Moore

For the last couple of weeks we've been focusing on the topic of Neurofeedback and today Jimmy and John take a look at how this hack is going with a two-week progress update.

Listen in today as Jimmy and John talk about:

• How the past couple of weeks have been going
• What they hope to see for the next two weeks coming up
• What makes this hack different from some of the previous ones
• How this has affected Jimmy's sleep
• How the feedback might help your keto diet
• and much more

"Our basic premise with you is that stress is a big factor. I think it is a cumulative effect and the longer you do it the more benefit you'll get." – John Limansky MD

"I think the fact that I am sleeping so much better and sounder quantifiably with the data is proof positive that I needed to do this sooner than later." – Jimmy Moore

Recently, we've focused on the topic of Neurofeedback and how technology helps us address stress and its causes in our lives. We continue in this vein today as Jimmy and Dr. Limansky delve more into the science behind stress.

Listen in today as Jimmy and John talk about:

• What do we mean when discussing stress
• Acute stress vs chronic stress
• Physiological response (what happens to the body in an acute stress response vs chronic response)
• Cortisol, norepinephrine & other stress hormones
• Diseases associated with chronic stressors
• How to measure stress with labs vs biohacking tools
• Integration into measurement of HRV & Muse
• Techniques to help mitigate stress in daily life

“I believe the reason why so many doctors tend to put on belly weight is chronic stress.” – Jimmy Moore

For the past few weeks on the KetoHacking MD Podcast, we have been focusing on the topic of Neurofeedback and how this technology could help give you important data to help you figure out just how you can get the most from your ketogenic biohacking. Last week we continued to shine a light on neurofeedback and looked at the specific technology we're using for this experiment. This week we are talking with Dr. Jay Wiles about how he is using this technology in his psychology practice, as well as how this technology has become more mainstream and how it is helping doctors treat patients in new and innovative ways.

"The great thing about biofeedback is that there is a ton of clinical utility with this modality and it is becoming more commonly used especially with veterans services." – Dr. Jay Wiles

“This is a subject that more people are becoming interested in especially as people realize what role stress is playing in all our lives.” – Dr. John Limansky

“It's interesting to see the medical establishment starting to open up to the ideas of biohacking with nutrition and biofeedback.” – Jimmy Moore

Last week on the KetoHacking MD Podcast, we started the discussion on this fascinating subject of Neurofeedback and how this technology could help give you important data to help you figure out just how you can get the most from your ketogenic biohacking. This week we look at the specific product that Jimmy and Dr. Limansky are using for their experiments called Muse: The Brain Sensing Headband.
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Listen in today as Jimmy and John talk about:

• Recapping what they hope to learn from this experiment:
• How they are using the device
• How long each episode lasts
• Journaling their experience of doing experiment to see if improvement in stress etc
• Evaluation of subjective stress levels
• How they are checking glucose BID & ketone BID
• The specific things they are checking
  •  HRV
  • Thermoregulation
  • Muscular
  • Neurological
• Brain Waves and what they mean
• The MUSE device
• Why we choose this one
• What makes it different from others
• What it is trying to accomplish
• The feedback process
• How to use the feedback to change daily habits

"The real value of this is being able to make and a change in your life and watch the results as it happens." – Dr. John Limansky

"Biofeedback is happening whether you're testing or not. With the tools and technology we have now, it's nice to be able to see what's going on in real time." – Jimmy Moore

This week on the KetoHacking MD Podcast, Jimmy and John explore the topic of neurofeedback to ramp up your KetoHacking.

Neurofeedback is gaining in popularity as research is showing the benefits of tracking stress and how your body responds to it. In this episode we start talking about using this tool to track how stress is affecting our health and learning from it how to adjust the stressors in our lives. Listen in as Jimmy and Jon talk about:

• Why they are discussing this topic
• How Jimmy is using this to measure stress
• A discussion of autonomic system
• How this relates to Keto
• How it relates to biohacking
• Where this term derives from
• Talking about the research behind it
• Some medical clinical uses of it
• Some non medical uses of it
• How this is different than meditation
• Some products on the market
• Preview of our use of Muse and discussion on the product next week.

“Neurofeedback allows you to see what's going on in your body using brain waves and then using protocols to see if you can change brainwaves to minimize stress.” – Dr. John Limansky

“I'm looking forward to seeing how my body and stress level responds to taking 6 months off.” – Jimmy Moore

This week on the KetoHacking MD Podcast, Jimmy and John are joined by Mackay Rippey to talk about DNA testing to inform your KetoHacking.

Mackay Rippey from GetToKnowYourDNA.com has been an acupuncturist for 28 years and discovered along the way that stealth infections, like Lyme disease, were the causative factor underlying many of his chronically ill, hard to treat patients. As part of his deep dive into Lyme disease, he got interested in the genetic variants that can turn normal nutritional pathways into train wrecks. After hearing Jimmy tell the story of his various keto hacking train wrecks, Mackay decided to reach out and offer to take a look at Jimmy’s DNA to help him uncover why his health keeps jumping the tracks.

This week on the KetoHacking MD Podcast, Jimmy and John are joined by Dr. Anna Cabeca to talk about The Hormone Fix For Women.

Dr. Anna Cabeca is an internationally-acclaimed menopause and sexual health expert, global speaker and pioneering promoter of women's health. She is Emory University trained and triple board-certified in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine and anti-aging and regenerative medicine, and is the author of "The Hormone Fix," a diet and holistic lifestyle program for menopausal women.

Listen in today as Jimmy and John talk with Dr.Cabeca about:

Her new book The Hormone Fix
The unique challenges that women face
The overlooked connection between diet and hormone balance
Her take on biohacking your diet
Supplementation
The importance of sleep
And much more.

"If we eat before 7 PM and let our digestive enzymes do their work we find that patients are able to have a restorative night's sleep." – Dr. Anna Cabeca

"I think that part of the benefits of fasting is the lowering of insulin and subsequently cortisol." – Dr. John Limansky

"I think it's a great point that camaraderie and laughing has a positive effect on stress and .longevity." – Jimmy Moore

This week Jimmy and John take a look at Jimmy’s blood test results from the 28 day Keto Carnivore hack in Episode 42 of The KetoHacking MD Podcast.

If you’ve been following along then you know that last year we tackled some KetoHacks that pushed the boundaries of the typical keto diet to test what could be added to or tweaked to optimize this amazing nutritional lifestyle. We have been talking this past month about Jimmy's new experiment, the 28 day Keto Carnivore hack and the amazing initial results Jimmy has shown from this dietary shift. Today we dig into what's been going on INSIDE as Jimmy has taken on this nearly zero-carb, all animal product experiment. Want to know if there were substantial changes over a four week period of eating keto carnivore? Tune in today to find out!

“Spoiler alert: I'm doing this all year and we will continue to check in once a month and give periodic updates on what's going on.” – Jimmy Moore

“It goes to show the benefit of combining fat and protein at the appropriate ratio with almost no carbohydrate. You're giving yourself the best opportunity to really feel satiated and consuming food that is very nutrient dense.” – Dr. John Limansky

This week Jimmy and John are joined by Dr. Shawn Baker to get his take on Jimmy's Keto Carnivore hack in this episode of The KetoHacking MD Podcast Episode 41.

If you’ve been following along then you know that last year we tackled some KetoHacks that pushed the boundaries of the typical keto diet to test what could be added to or tweaked to optimize this amazing nutritional lifestyle. Since we started talking last week about Jimmy's latest hack, the keto carnivore experiment, there are lots of questions and plenty to discuss. To dig deeper into what is going on with Jimmy's phenomenal results so far, Dr. Shawn Baker, Mr. Carnivore himself weighs in today on Jimmy's experiment and results so far.

Listen in today to hear:

Shawn's thoughts on Jimmy's experiment
Why lean protein probably isn't doable long-term
Why Jimmy likes to show people that you can do this without breaking the bank
How dairy might effect you
Finding what gives you results
Staying away from dietary dogma
The natural role of fasting
Adding butter to your meat
Micro-nutrient composition of meat
Addressing vitamin and mineral deficiency fears
Veganism vs. Carnivore
The social media impact of diets
and much more
"If you're just eating lean meat, you're going to need to add some tallow, butter, or ghee. Where it becomes counter-productive is when you start putting butter in your coffee." – Shawn Baker

“Vegans are very organized and there's not the same kind of cohesiveness to counter the nonsense.” – Jimmy Moore

“One of my biggest fears is the dietary advice being passed down to our children, and whether dietary policy is going to be set my vegans.” – Dr. John Limansky