"For the experiment about ketogenic diet, NASA has chosen Dominic D’Agostino, Associate Professor from the University of South Florida (USF) for his research conducted at the USF Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory (HBRL) on how extreme environments impact the human body, the university said in a statement.
D’Agostino is the only member not affiliated with NASA or European Space Agency (ESA). He will be put on a ketogenic diet – a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet – to understand the impact of extreme environments on the human body.
The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates.
Hence, D’Agostino will be in a constant state of nutritional ketosis – a metabolic state in which your body burns fat rather than glucose as its primary fuel – which is proven to preserve the genome, thus protecting DNA. "
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