Ketones: The Other Brain Fuel

Drew Ramsey, MD Published on January 26, 2015 Updated on February 3, 2021

If your brain runs on sugar, what happens when you don’t eat carbohydrates (sugar)? Your body shifts gears to burn fat, and makes ketones to feed your brain.

Drew Ramsey, MD

Drew Ramsey, M.D. is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. He is a clear voice in the mental health conversation and one of psychiatry’s leading proponents of using nutritional interventions. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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