Science VS Ketogenic Diet… Is Fat Good For You? – This episode discussed whether the ketogenic diet can improve your brain and whether this diet is actually worth it. The ketogenic diet is a diet where you are supposed to eat a surplus amount of fat and no carbs. However, carbs are essential in most American diets. The research was conducted and according to Dom D’ Agostino personal experiences, a researcher at the University of South Florida, ketogenic diets helped him lose fat and increased his concentration on his work. Going on the ketogenic diet is difficult because when we think about carbs, we tend to think about bread and chips; however, even fruits contain carbohydrates. The host, Kaitlyn Sawrey, found out that ketogenic diets were created to treat children with epilepsy. It is crazy to think that a diet that treated epilepsy is now a leading weight loss method. When you are on the ketogenic diet, the brain will use ketones, fat gets turned into ketones when it goes through the liver, instead of glucose. A study was conducted to find out if the ketogenic diet improved the memory of his little mice and it was proven that the mice that were on the ketogenic diet had better memory than the mice that were given the regular diet. However, this was contradicted by many researchers because a human’s brain is different than a mouse’s brain. The topic switches to whether the ketogenic diet can actually aid in losing weight and turns out that it is possible to lose weight because once you start reducing the number of things to eat, you run out of snacks that you can eat and in the end, you lose weight. In conclusion, there still needs to be more research conducted on this diet to fully highlight the benefits and that the outcomes of the ketogenic diet are similar to other methods.
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