SciShow | How the Keto Diet Went from Arctic Staple to Bro-Science

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Episode Title: How the Keto Diet Went from Arctic Staple to Bro-Science
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Description: The keto diet is a high fat, low carb diet that proponents say is not just great for losing weight, but is good for your brain health, too. Does the science behind the diet back those claims up? We delve into the origin of the keto diet and the research done on it to find out. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-1-2 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-3-302.pdf https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/franklin-expedition-ship-watson-ice-ghosts/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01821.x https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1684/epd.2010.0303.pdf https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-fat-fueled-brain-unnatural-or-advantageous/ http://watcut.uwaterloo.ca/webnotes/Metabolism/Gluconeogenesis.html https://study.com/academy/lesson/acyl-group-definition-structure.html http://www.bioinfo.org.cn/book/biochemistry/chapt16/bio1.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129159/ https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mRyjDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&ots=UH9n5YfzTq&sig=wS4b7ZbFLO8-Qm4VyVaNywz1dXI#v=snippet&q=kg%20atp&f=false https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.00915.x http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_01/i_01_m/i_01_m_ana/i_01_m_ana.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21130529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19664276 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15728303 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1016/j.nurt.2009.01.005 https://www.nature.com/articles/ejcn2016260.pdf https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0804748#t=article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25911631 https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/56/1/292S/4715743?redirectedFrom=PDF https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/91/6/2062/2843371 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/200094 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0026049583901063 https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.00268.2005 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2686146 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2686143?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2686146


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