What do Ketone Esters Have To Do With Covid?

July 29, 2020

Don’t Ever Let Anyone Tell You Diet Is Not Important!

At the Peptide Mastermind Conference last weekend, my eyes were opened to using Ketone Esters for inflammation for such things as Covid and Asthma. Who would have thought!? Only the mastermind doctors, meeting to share their experiences using peptides, and in the below case, Ketone Esters.

Ketones cause an elevation in beta-hydroxybuyrate (BHB) levels which in turn lowers excitability in the brain and modulates inflammatory processes in the brain.*

It has been long known the ketogenic diet which produces an increase in ketones in the body, has reduced seizure activity in people with epilepsy, first having been demonstrated in animal models. Subsequently, a ketogenic diet showed an increase in cognition, and in particularly an increase in cognition of Alzheimer patients.*

Presenting at the Peptide Conference were doctors who had innovatively used Ketone Esters to mitigate Covid and Asthma symptoms over the course of three days. Impressively, a video demonstration was shown of the Ketone Ester effects on one of the MDs who had become short of breath, having asthma and being positive for Covid. The affects after taking Ketone Esters on his breathing was quite impressive. The mere fact you can use Ketone Esters for resolving an asthma attack was fascinating to me, and to use them to alleviate the inflammatory symptoms of Covid made sense.

And I thought Ketone Esters were only good for focus skiing through the trees! Try them some time skiing! By the way, Ketone Esters taste awful! Dave Asprey described the taste as, “fruity cough syrup that morphs into grandpa’s moonshine as you swallow”. He is correct!**

Ketone Esters and Ketone Bodies and Ketone Salts

- Ketone esters are ketone bodies, like BHB, bound to an alcohol molecule.
- Ketone salts are ketone bodies, like BHB, bound to a mineral of either calcium, sodium, or magnesium
- Ketone esters when they get into the blood stream are converted into ketones like your body makes. The Ketone esters are more efficient than ketone salts in making ketones.

Improved Health Outcomes Using Ketone Esters

- Cognitive Function
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Adjunct for Cancer Treatments
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Weight Loss

The full use of Ketone Esters to decrease inflammation in the body in general has yet to be unmasked. Two companies making Ketone Esters mentioned at the conference as being good products are KetoneAid KE4 and HVMN. Have fun reading about them and/or trying them

Have an awesome day!

Dr. D

As an aside, “Congratulations to my son and his beautiful wife who got married in Cape Town, South Africa, as I wrote this blog. You both are exquisitely special and I love you both dearly. A toast to a long and happy life together.”