Several studies on rats and mice with Alzheimer's disease have found that supplementing
with ketone esters led to improvements in memory and learning, plus helped reduce anxiety - related behavior (19, 20, 21).
It should be noted that most of the evidence we have in athletes, have been done
with ketone esters and not salts (as noted earlier the only commercially available exogenous ketone supplements).
At the minute, it is only ketone salts that are commercially available
with ketone esters mostly being used in research.
Not exact matches
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So regarding
with diet piece — so ketosis, there's like nutritional ketosis where you're cutting your carbs down significantly where you're starting to rely on
ketones, these fatty acid
esters for fuel.
Likewise, the use of
ketone esters and salts, could appear promising to help those that may struggle
with the practical applications of the diet.
With just that small change — adding coconut oil to a high - carbohydrate diet - she noticed enough of an improvement to continue, increase the dose over time, and eventually progress to using a
ketone ester, still in the context of a relatively high - carb diet.
In several studies, supplementing
with ketone salts resulted in beta - hydroxybutyrate levels of less than 1 mmol / L, while taking
ketone esters raised blood beta - hydroxybutyrate concentrations to 3 to 5 mmol / L (26, 27, 28).