'Our work indicates that the effects of the ketogenic diet benefit brain function broadly,' the researchers told Newsweek.
If you have ever dabbled in the world of dieting, you are likely to have stumbled across the famous ketogenic diet. But aside from melting fat and dropping pounds, this diet has been associated with improvements in brain health and longevity.Now, new research has revealed how these beneficial effects might take place at a molecular level, at least in mice.
On further investigation, the team saw that the mice on the ketogenic diet showed changes in the activity of the junctions between different cells in the brain involved in memory processing. Interestingly, these changes in activity appeared to be partially orchestrated by the molecules produced when the body goes into ketogenesis, known scientifically as ketone bodies.
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