On today’s episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy peels back the layers on another stack of cutting edge keto research.

“The side effects of the drugs they give people with Alzheimer’s can make quality of life difficult.”

Jimmy Moore

In this first clip Jimmy shares from a February 23, 2021 study published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy entitled “Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease”: https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-021-00783-x

New Zealand researchers at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand used a modified ketogenic diet over a 12-week period on patients with a diagnosed case of Alzheimer’s disease. Primary outcomes included basic cognitive tests and quality-of-life improvements. Secondary outcomes included cardiovascular risk marker changes. The ketogenic diet beat the low-fat one across the board!

Next up Jimmy shares from an April 9, 2021 study published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology entitled “Feasibility of Continuous Ketone Monitoring in Subcutaneous Tissue using a Ketone Sensor”: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19322968211008185

At long last, a continuous ketone monitor (CKM) very similar to how a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) works is currently undergoing research and testing before coming to the market. Just like the CGM, the new CKM will not be measuring blood but rather interstitial fluid which is generally excepted as a proxy for blood readings.

In the first-ever human trial of continuous ketone monitoring, they tested 12 healthy individuals eating a low-carb diet and wearing 3 CKM‘s over a 14-day period and comparing those readings to a finger prick blood ketone test (using the Precision Xtra device from Abbott). Watch this video to find out just how accurate the CKM is and a couple of questions that Jimmy has about this new technology.

To wrap up this episode, Jimmy shares from a March 12, 2021 study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise entitled “The Effects of Exercise on Beta-Hydroxybutyrate Concentrations over a 36-h Fast: A Randomized Crossover Study”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33731648

On today’s episode of the LLVLC Show, Jimmy welcomes Anna Vocino to talk about cooking your best keto food at home for health.

“You won’t even know how much you need to clean up your diet until you start cooking and eating at home.”

Anna Vocino

Anna Vocino is an actor, comedian, voice over talent and podcaster. She has performed in numerous television shows, films, commercials, and video games which is a pretty good day job to support her real passion of being a home cook and food blogger.

Diagnosed with celiac disease in 2002, Anna has made it her mission to create easy to make, delicious gluten free, sugar free, and grain free versions of her favorite comfort foods, gathered in Eat Happy. She blogs additional recipes at www.AnnaVocino.com and co-hosts The Fitness Confidential podcast with celebrity fitness trainer Vinnie Tortorich. 

In this interview, Jimmy chats with his longtime low-carb podcasting friend and fellow author Anna Vocino about how to incorporate more low-carb, ketogenic cooking into your nutritional health plan. So many people make excuses for why they can’t cook at home–too much work, not enough time, don’t know how to cook, blah blah blah. But check out the tips that Anna shares from her EAT HAPPY books in today’s conversation from a recent discussion with Jimmy on Clubhouse.

Anna Vocino on Instagram: https://instagram.com/annavocino

Get the EAT HAPPY book on Amazon: Eat Happy: Gluten Free, Grain Free, Low Carb Recipes Made from Real Foods For A Joyful Life: Anna Vocino: 9781941536889: Amazon.com: Books

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Official Anna Vocino website: http://www.annavocino.com

On today’s episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy tackles a new study that has important information concerning Alzheimer’s Disease.

“I bet all of these participants would have done even better with higher fat intake.”

Jimmy Moore

Today on Jimmy Makes Science Simple on LLVLC (@jimmymakessciencesimple) I have a February 23, 2021 study published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy entitled “Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease.”

READ THE STUDY HERE: Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease | Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

New Zealand researchers at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand used a modified ketogenic diet over a 12-week period on patients with a diagnosed case of Alzheimer’s disease. Primary outcomes included basic cognitive tests and quality-of-life improvements. Secondary outcomes included cardiovascular risk marker changes. The ketogenic diet beat low-fat by every measure!

While I always appreciate new research that shows benefits with nutritional ketosis, I’m always flummoxed by the rationale for why researchers do things the way they do. In this study, they modified the ketogenic approach by lowering the fat to 58% of calories and feeding the participants in excess of 15% of calories from carbohydrate. Since they were measuring a neurodegenerative condition and looking for what effects ketone bodies would play in the brain, it was odd they insisted on a version of keto that only produced mild ketosis.

If they examined all the research of epilepsy another neurodegenerative diseases, then they would’ve seen a very different diet—upwards of 90% fat. I think they could have gone in between the diet they chose and the therapeutic diet for epilepsy and shown far greater results. Their concern was compliance with the diet and they included sweets in what they offered.

Despite these challenges in the research, I think it’s a pretty good study because we don’t have enough positive papers on Alzheimer’s disease with a ketogenic approach. Hopefully this study proves the efficacy of the intervention and they will do larger scale studies for they can do a more therapeutic level of ketogenic diet. I enjoyed sharing this one with you all today!

In Episode 1727 Jimmy welcomes Dr. Jen Unwin to talk about how to break your addiction to crappy carbage.

“The solution for an addiction is abstinence.”

Dr. Jen Unwin

Dr. Jen Unwin BSc, MSc, DPsy, FBPsS is a consultant clinical health psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She works with the NHS helping patients manage chronic illness and achieve wellbeing. She also works with her GP husband Dr. David Unwin helping patients stick to lifestyle changes. Dr. Unwin is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and a former chair of the UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.

Today Jimmy welcomes in a UK-based clinical psychologist and sugar addiction researcher named Dr. Jen Unwin who has a brand new book entitled FORK IN THE ROAD (http://www.forkintheroad.co.uk​). ⁣Jimmy and Jen discuss the intricacies happening in the brain that lead us to want to choose more sweet and sugary foods and how low-carb keto helps to calm those lingering cravings.

In this episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy tackles a study that looks into whether a combination of exogenous ketones and hypocaloric keto can increase fat loss.

“You have to continuously drink ketones to maintain the levels in your blood.”

Jimmy Moore

Welcome to Jimmy Moore’s brand new show JIMMY MAKES SCIENCE SIMPLE where he breaks down the latest nutritional health studies into language that makes them easier for you to understand and apply to your life.⁣

Today we have a fantastic March 24, 2021 study published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition entitled “The Effects of a 6-Week Controlled, Hypocaloric Ketogenic Diet, With and Without Exogenous Ketone Salts, on Body Composition Responses.”

READ THE STUDY HERE:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.618520/full

Dr. Jeff Volek and his team of fellow researchers at The Ohio State University wanted to see if there was any difference in fat loss and other body composition changes with the addition of exogenous ketones twice daily over a 6-week period with a hypocaloric ketogenic diet vs. a ketogenic diet with a placebo (a low-fat group was also added as a control). The theory is that supplementing with additional beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) would result in muscle preservation as well as an increase in body fat loss over keto alone. But that’s not what happened.
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There was no difference in weight loss or fat loss between the groups and after the first two weeks there was no difference in blood ketone concentrations. In other words, the endogenous production took over after adaptation and provided all the benefits they needed. Gee, imagine that!

Anyone pushing exogenous ketone supplements on you as a weight loss tool REALLY need to read this study and realize just how much they are lying to their clients and customers. Don’t fall for the marketing gimmicks and the sad sob stories of how their life has been changed because they drink ketones. You can make all the ketones you need endogenously through carbohydrate restriction. Nuff said!

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In this special edition of the LLVLC show, Jimmy welcomes Ben Azadi to talk about his new book KETO FLEX in Episode 1725.

“I love ketosis, but I think it’s important to be more metabolically flexible.”

Ben Azadi

Ben Azadi, FDN-P, (@thebenazadi) is on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle. Ben is the author of three best-selling books, The Perfect Health Booklet, The Intermittent Fasting Cheat Sheet, and The Power of Sleep. Ben has been the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet. He is known as ‘The Health Detective’ because he investigates dysfunction, and educates, not medicate, to bring the body back to normal function.

An interview with keto influencer and podcaster Ben Azadi from @Keto Kamp​ about his brand new book KETO FLEX: The 4 Secrets to Reduce Inflammation, Burn Fat & Reboot Your Metabolism that released today at KetoFlexBook.com. Available on Amazon internationally.

Listen in as Jimmy Moore chats with Ben about the book, what’s different about his approach compared with other keto books, The importance of flexing in and out of ketosis, his very creative and romantic proposal to his girlfriend, and a whole lot more! Check it out!

On today’s episode of the LLVLC Show, Jimmy welcomes Dr. Angela Stanton to talk about the role of diet on hormonal health.

“So many people don’t realize that you are in ketosis in the womb and are born in ketosis.”

Dr. Angela Stanton

Dr. Angela Stanton is the perfect person to have authored the book, Fighting the Migraine Epidemic: How to Treat and Prevent Migraines Without Medicine. A migraine and nutrition scientist and long-term migraine sufferer herself, she was fed up with the lack of understanding and treatments for migraines within the medical community. So she focused her research on the root cause of migraines as well as their prevention and treatment. Stanton’s research helped her identify a “migraine code,” or collection of circumstances that likely cause migraines, which is explained in her book and helps migraine sufferers better manage their symptoms.

In this interview, Jimmy speaks with migraine and nutrition scientist and long-term migraine sufferer Angela Stanton, PhD who has focused her research on getting to the root cause of migraines utilizing a keto carnivore approach to controlling them. This fascinating conversation gets into the various kinds of migraines, why mainstream medical answers have failed, how electrolytes (especially sodium) are a key missing piece, and why carbohydrate restriction is a key aspect of controlling migraines. If you or someone you love deals with migraines, you don’t want to miss this!

On today’s episode of the LLVLC Show, Jimmy takes a look at the role of sugar on 91-DIVOC.

“They’ve told us to stay at home and get the jab in the arm, but not one single recommendation about our diet.”

 - JImmy Moore

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, MD and Nina Teicholz wrote an editorial published in the March 2021 issue of the Clinical Journal Of Sports Medicine entitled “Is It Time for a Lockdown on Sugar?” on the intricate tie between insulin resistance and 91-DIVOC severity. ⁣

Lt. Col. (Dr.) Mark Cucuzzella is a Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine. As a US Air Force Reservist he designs programs to promote healthier and better running with the US Air Force Efficient Running Project. Mark has presented running workshops on over 50 military bases.

Nina Teicholz is a journalist who became an advocate opposed to the mainstream nutritional principle that saturated fat is unhealthy and should be minimized in the American diet.

Read the study here.

Food chemist Arturo Singer is our special guest for the LLVLC Show Episode 1721.

“As a food chemist I can tell you that so many food companies care about making food as addictive as possible.”

Arturo Singer

Arturo Singer is a food chemist, avant-garde leader in alternative functional medicine, translational medicine, health and human nutrition, with more than 20 years of experience in the analysis and investigation of the causes of numerous conditions and functional biochemical diagnosis of the organism, with the main objective of the optimization of it. Through his out-of-the-box thinking, Arturo discovers critical pathways and provides strategies to achieve the readjustment of the human genome, providing solutions necessary for a long, vigorous and healthy life.

In this interview, Jimmy is pleased to have on chemist and Longevity Coach Arturo Singer from Mexico on the show for a truly in-depth conversation about the current state of health, freedom, and extending the duration and quality of your life. A MUST LISTEN if you would like to “live younger longer!”

Follow Arturo on Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/Arturo_Singer​

Official Longevity Coach website: https://longevitycoach.com.mx​

Arturo’s Podcast Segundo Aire (in Spanish):

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/segundo-aire/id1464069761

On today’s episode of the LLVLC Show, Jimmy digs into a study that shows some positive results about Keto.

“The increase in LDL-C is why a lot of people avoid keto.”

 - Jimmy Moore

Jimmy breaks down a December 2020 study from researchers at Virta Health (Phinney. Volek, Hallberg, Krause) published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetology entitled “Impact of a 2-year trial of nutritional ketosis on indices of cardiovascular disease risk in patients with type 2 diabetes” (https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-020-01178-2 )

 showing cardiovascular risk factors such as small LDL particle numbers and a CIMT improved in those who were in nutritional ketosis.

Tune in for this simulcast from the Keto 4 The Soul room on Clubhouse!⁣