This is What the Ketogenic Diet Does to Your Brain

The clues are in the past and in the present

Maria Cross
Feed Your Brain
Published in
7 min readMar 18, 2024

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Stone-Age humans had a taste for large, fatty animals. They liked nothing better than a woolly mammoth, with its thick layers of delicious, unctuous fat. The farther north humans travelled during the Palaeolithic era, the more they relied entirely on megafauna for survival, as plant foods became less…

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Maria Cross
Feed Your Brain

MSc. Registered nutritionist, specialising in gut and mental health. OUT NOW! My new book, How to Feed Your Brain. mariacrossnutrition @mariacross