Your Brain Runs 70% Better on Ketones Than Glucose — The Science of Exogenous Ketones
Your Brain Runs 70% Better on Ketones Than Glucose — The Science of Exogenous Ketones
Your brain is an energy hog. It weighs 2% of your body and burns 20% of your calories. For most of human history, it ran on two fuels: glucose and ketones. Modern diets have made it almost entirely glucose-dependent. And that, according to a growing body of neuroscience, is one of the biggest metabolic mistakes of the last century.