CALS-affiliate, Thomas Weimbs, featured in UCSB Magazine

As described in UCSB Magazine, Weimbs, a Professor in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UCSB, and fellow researcher Jacob Torres, "were startled to find that in animals that had been fed beta-hydroxybutyrate, a ketone that our bodies make naturally during fasting, the cysts stopped growing and had even shrunk. This led to their realization that PKD can be controlled and even reversed with nutritional interventions, including the popular intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets."