What are Ketogenic Diets and How they can Reduce Cognitive Decline with Nicole Laurent

So as we age, we tend to become insulin resistant. So we, unless we are very, very athletic our whole lives and very, very active, and there's different, you know, differing definitions of what that is. And even sometimes when we are very active, we become insulin resistant. And this happens because we live in a very high carbohydrate environment. And so our pancreas is constantly pushing out more and more, higher and higher levels of insulin in order to deal with the amount of carbohydrates that we eat, that we have access to. And, um, what ends up happening is that different tissues in the body become insulin resistant. It's almost as if the cells are saying, we cannot take in any more of this glucose energy, and the machinery by which insulin pushes that energy into the cells become damaged.