Dr. Dominic “Dom” D’Agostino (@DominicDAgosti2) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC).

He has also deadlifted 500 pounds for 10 reps after a seven-day fast.

The primary focus of Dom’s laboratory is developing and testing metabolic therapies, including ketogenic diets, ketone esters and ketone supplements to induce nutritional/therapeutic ketosis.

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Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer
Show Notes: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/11/0...

00:00 Start
5:28 What Dom does
9:53 The Institutional Review Board (IRB)
12:13 Research on advanced lifters in ketosis
15:53 Can you get big and strong when in ketosis?
20:48 Defining ketones and ketosis
28:23 Preventing neurodegenerative diseases
30:48 Cachexia, sarcopenia, anabolism, and catabolism
34:48 Anabolic agents and cancer patients
38:53 The advantage of SARMS
43:23 Mimicking benefits of fasting with exogenous ketones
49:18 Accelerating the induction of ketone projection
56:13 Ketone esters
1:16:08 Benefits of eating exogenous ketones (especially in Italy)
1:20:43 The traveling ketogenic breakfast
1:25:08 Reasons for using glutamine
1:32:18 On being considered a “nutritionist”
1:41:38 Metformin and cancer survival rates
1:46:18 What Dom would do if he had cancer
2:03:03 Thoughts on therapeutic fasting
2:08:23 Observations of people who experiment with fasting
2:14:33 Risks of consuming a cocktail of exogenous ketones
2:22:45 Foods and beverages that spike ketone levels
2:41:33 Top resources
2:43:13 Most gifted books
2:50:18 Fighting Lyme Disease with the ketogenic diet
2:53:18 The effect of ketosis on mitochondria
2:55:53 Healing from use of antibiotics

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