The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. It is used mainly to treat hard-to-control epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Around half of children and young people with epilepsy who have tried some form of this diet saw the number of seizures drop by at least half. The effect persists after discontinuing the diet.
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The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. It is used mainly to treat hard-to-control epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Around half of children and young people with epilepsy who have tried some form of this diet saw the number of seizures drop by at least half. The effect persists after discontinuing the diet. Some evidence shows that adults with epilepsy may benefit from the diet and that a less strict regimen, such as a modified Atkins diet, is similarly effective. Side effects may include constipation, high cholesterol, growth slowing, acidosis, and kidney stones. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders after migraine and stroke, affecting around 50 million people worldwide. About 60% of patients achieve control of their epilepsy with the first drug they use, whereas around 30% do not achieve control with drugs. When drugs fail, other options include epilepsy surgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and theketogenic diet. An early treatment for epilepsy was proposed in the Hippocratic Corpus Corpus, on the Sacred Corpus, in 400 BC. For this group of people, the diet had a rational and physical cure and had a role to play in the treatment of epilepsy. For children and adults with this group, it has once again found a role in epilepsy management, including epilepsy management of ancient diseases such as Gaucher’s disease and amotrophic lateral sclerosis. It has been studied for many additional neurological disorders, some of which include: Alzheimer’s disease, headache, neurotrauma, pain, Parkinson’s disease, and sleep disorders.
It was largely abandoned in the 1920s and 30s in favour of new anticonvulsant drugs. Most individuals with epilepsy can successfully achieve their seizures with medication. However, 25–30% fail to achieve control despite trying a number of different drugs, despite trying to control it with different drugs. The classic therapeutic Ketogenic diet was developed for treatment of paediatric epilepsy in the1920s and was widely used into the next decade, but its popularity waned with the introduction of effective anticonVulsant medications. This classic diet contains a 4: 1 ratio by weight of fat to combined protein and carbohydrate. This is achieved by excluding high-carb carbohydrate foods such as starchy fruits and vegetables, bread, pasta, grains, and sugar, while increasing the consumption of foods high in fat such as nuts, cream, and butter. A variant of the classic diet known as the MCT ketogenic. diet uses a form of coconut oil, which is rich in MCTs, to provide around half the calories. As less overall fat is needed in this variant, a greater proportion of carbohydrate and protein can be consumed, allowing a greater variety of food choices. The diet was first used in 1994 by Hollywood producer Jim Abrahams, whose son’s severe epilepsy was effectively controlled by the diet, and he created the Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies to further promote diet therapy.
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