Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Energy dips? Ditch coffee, try this instead! #ketones @hvmn #ketoneiq #energyboost

16 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube interview clip (Josh Trent with Michael Brandt) about using exogenous ketones to address mid-afternoon energy dips. Michael explains that ketones are a fat-derived fuel produced during starvation; drinkable (exogenous) ketones skip the body's conversion step and can be consumed to directly provide ATP. He also notes that elevated carbs and ketones together (unusual physiologically) are being explored for athletic gains. Josh frames the approach as a biohack for energy balance.

At about 3 o', clock, I find that my energy dips. And I think most people have an energy dip just because of circadian rhythm and because of our sleep wake cycles. What is it about the ketones specifically that bring people tbi, or addiction based to homeostasis?
Ketones are like a basically derivative of fat that your body naturally produces when it's in a starvation mode. But if you can have a drinkable ketone, you skip that conversion step. So you can have something that you directly consume that gives you ATP, but it's not a protein, fat, carbohydrate. So to me it's like you have instead of only like three colors, like red, green, blue, to like paint pictures.
Yeah.
You have like a fourth color that didn't really exist in conjunction because like normally in physiology, you don't really have a context where you have high glucose and high ketones at the same time. So from an athletic context perspective, and that's where we're seeing a lot of cleanse gains. You have carbs and ketones elevated at the same time, which doesn't happen normally.
Yeah, to me this is like the ultimate biohack.