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

3 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Nicole Laurent describes how a chronic pain condition and subsequent medication detoxification left her with cognitive impairment that met clinical criteria for stage 1 Alzheimer's disease. She explores ketogenic diets as a potential way to recover brain function and slow cognitive decline.

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I developed a chronic pain condition when I was in graduate school, and I— long story short, by the end of all the medications and detoxification of those medications, there had been a huge toll on my cognitive function. So when I was done with that, I— when I look back at my level of impairment, I met criteria for stage 1 Alzheimer's disease in terms of impairment. Well, after that ordeal, um, I was in really bad shape with it, and, um, it got a little bit better but not very much. So the discrepancy between my past functioning and the functioning by the time I had got done with that was quite vast.