Clinical review Ketones and brain injury.docVIP

White and Venkatesh Critical Care 2011, 15:219 /content/15/2/219 RE VIE W Clinical review: Ketones and brain injury Hayden White * and Balasubramanian Venkatesh 1 2 e purpose of the present review is to explore the physiology of ketone body utilization by the brain in health and a variety of neurological conditions, and to discuss the potential for ketone supplementation as a therapeutic option in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Abstract Although much feared