This week on Episode 394 of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have our friend Chris Masterjohn PhD. Chris is a researcher with a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, and a brilliant guy in the nutrition and health field.
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Show Notes:
00:00 – Pre-intro/Summary
03:21 – Intro
5:19 – Being a problem solver and synthesizing nutrition info.
10:49 – Evolution, Economics, and Thermodynamics for understanding the world
13:20 – Lab grown meat and energy inputs
18:49 – Which media format Chris prefers
25:47 – What Chris likes to do for fitness, and doing BJJ
32:35 – Chris’ coming speaking gigs and content goals
36:34 – Ketogenic diet and epilepsy
50:50 – Any evolutionary advantage of epilepsy?
58:50 – Nutritional Status Cheatsheet
1:18:22 – Where you can find Chris
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Twitter: @ChrisMasterjohn
YouTube: Chris Masterjohn, PhD
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Do we know what percentage of people with epilepsy respond to the ketogenic diet? Have there been large studies of newly diagnosed people with epilepsy who have not tried any drug treatment? Most people with epilepsy that try the ketogenic diet only do so after multiple drugs have failed. If people only try keto after drugs fail it doesn’t really give a true reading on how many people respond to the diet. I was aware of the keto diet before my son started having seizures 7 years ago so we put him on the diet before trying any drugs and he has been seizure free.
Glen- If you look at the data BEFORE the drugs were developed you get a sense of the efficacy…which was like 80% remission, improvements in most of the remaining 20%