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Rationale and protocol for a safety, tolerability and feasibility randomized, parallel group, double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot study of a novel ketone ester targeting frailty via immunometabolic geroscience mechanisms.

2023-10-26 geriatric medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundFrailty is a geriatric syndrome characterized by chronic inflammation and metabolic insufficiency that creates vulnerability to poor outcomes with aging. We hypothesize that geroscience interventions, which target mechanisms of aging, could ameliorate frailty. Metabolites such as ketone bodies are candidate geroscience interventions, having pleiotropic effects on inflammo-metabolic aging mechanisms. Ketone esters (KEs) induce ketosis without dietary changes, but KEs have not been studi...

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