In a recent review published in Nutrients, researchers investigated the mechanisms of action, efficacy, and side effects of ketogenic diet (KD) variations in epileptic patients. Epilepsy is a ...

The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, very low carbohydrate, and adequate protein regimen. In this diet, cell energy is derived from fatty acid and amino acid oxidation, which generates ketone bodies ...

Research seems divided over whether a high-fat diet is good or bad for brain health and our memories. While the ketogenic diet originally got its start as a therapeutic approach for the management of ...

Q: Our 23-year-old son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He’s good about taking his medications, but he struggles with the side effects. We recently read that a ketogenic diet may be helpful. We ...

If someone told you that a super-high-fat diet could be healthy, would you believe it?No? Nor would I. But when it comes to children with epilepsy, we would be wrong. Epilepsy strikes around 300,000 ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number of seizures per day was lower from baseline to 3 months after diet initiation. The number of ...

A new UCLA study has found how a keto diet induces changes in the gut microbiome that could protect treatment-resistant epileptic children against seizures. The discovery could lead to the development ...

The ketogenic diet, often called the keto diet, is one that is very high in fat, very low in carbohydrates, and low to moderate in protein. It typically supplies 75 to 90 percent of calories from fat, ...