Professor Kieran Clarke has a BSc (Hons) from Flinders University in Adelaide and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Queensland in Australia. Prior to her appointment in Oxford, she worked for the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa after her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University Medical School in Boston.
Professor Clarke joined the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford in 1991. Her research is focussed on how diet alters energy metabolism in human heart, brain and skeletal muscle. Specifically, her interest in physical performance and cognitive function has led to the development of a fourth food group, a ketone ester called ΔG®, that improves endurance performance in athletes and could be used for the management of common metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease.
Human and animal studies have suggested that an increase in ketone metabolism may be beneficial in many circumstances, from endurance sports to neurological diseases. In 2003, we invented a new food group based on ketone metabolism, a ketone ester, (R)-3-hydroxybutyl (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate, that we called ΔG®. ΔG® directly raises circulating D-β-hydroxybutyrate levels, thereby overcoming the need for fasting or a ketogenic diet. In fact, a single ΔG® drink can raise circulating ketone levels to those found after several days of fasting and levels remain elevated for several hours following a drink.
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