Find out what kinds of foods your child can eat if she takes up the ketogenic diet, and learn about the challenges and side effects of a meal plan that gets rid of seizures in some kids with epilepsy.
A ketogenic diet has provided some people success in managing their seizures. Learn at the Epilepsy Foundation online.
Seizure medication effectiveness can be improved when used in tandem with dietary therapies. Learn more online at the Epilepsy Foundation.
Ketogenic diet (KD) alleviates refractory epilepsy and reduces seizures in children. However, the metabolic/cell biologic mechanisms by which the KD exerts its antiepileptic efficacy remain elusive...
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy that in conventional medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, carbohydrates in food are...
A ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carb diet. Eating this way may improve treatment-resistant epilepsy in children.
Lum et al. find that ketogenic diets (KDs) alter the gut microbiome in children with drug-resistant epilepsy. Mice colonized with KD-associated microbes exhibit seizure resistance. Human donors and...
Since its introduction in 1921, the ketogenic diet has been used for children with difficult-to-control seizures. Why not adults? In perhaps the very first published article about the ketogenic die...
Ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) is an established nonpharmacologic treatment in various types of epilepsy. We aim to evaluate the quality of the systematic reviews and meta-analyses (SRMAs) of KDT for...
Helping to simplify the ketogenic diet so you can enjoy more seizure-free moments