
It's Not Dementia, It's Distraction: Dr. Peter Attia : 493
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
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The Importance of Nutrition in Cognitive Enhancement
There's low hanging cognitive enhancement fruit that comes from just giving you access to all that's already there. Even those people who are on a ketogenic diet, there is no denying that even under George Cahill's most extreme example of starvation,. They were still getting at least 40% of their brain's energy was coming from glucose through the gluconeogenic turnover. The average person walking around nutritional ketosis is still probably relying on 60, 70 per cent of their brain energy from glucose. So glucose always matters, glucose homeostasis always matters. Sleep, exercise, then we talk about management of distress.
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