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ketogenic
/ ˌkiːtəʊˈdʒɛnɪk /
adjective
med forming or able to stimulate the production of ketone bodies
a ketogenic diet
Example Sentences
Their work focuses on a high-fat, low-carbohydrate eating plan known as the ketogenic diet.
Inside the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building, Ai-Ling Lin, a professor in the School of Medicine, and doctoral student Kira Ivanich are examining how the ketogenic diet may benefit people with the APOE4 gene, which is the strongest known genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
In their recent study using mice, Lin and Ivanich found that females with the APOE4 gene developed healthier gut bacteria and showed higher brain energy levels when following a ketogenic diet compared to those on a high-carbohydrate diet.
The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute and conducted using preclinical mouse models, indicates that breast cancer patients and survivors with obesity might benefit from treatments that reduce lipid levels, and that high-fat diets such as the ketogenic diet could be harmful for them.
However in those rats fed a ketogenic diet only 22% of male offspring, and 12% of female offspring, developed these problems.
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