Robert Lustig says ketogenic diets improve cognitive function in Alzheimer's patients and cites Dale Bredesen's case series as evidence. The approach hasn't been formally tested and needs rigorous study. Lustig also argues against the food industry claim that all calories and sugars are equivalent.
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And it's been shown that the ketogenic diet can improve cognitive parameters in Alzheimer's disease. Maybe every patient with Alzheimer's should be on a ketogenic diet. Well, Dale Bredesen, who wrote the End of Alzheimer's, thinks that that's true. Okay, now hasn't been tested in a formal fashion. Needs to be. Okay, but in his case series, which he has just published, that's one of the things that allowed for survival. Alzheimer's was going on a ketogenic diet. Now, why is this a problem? I mean, what's going on to alter the mitochondria? Well, that's in this slide here. And I think I've shown this slide at Emory Pharma before. I love this slide. It's one of my favorite slides. Okay, here's glucose. Here's fructose. They are not the same. Okay? The food industry will tell you calories are calories, sugars are sugar. Garbage. Total, complete trash.