Fat Loss & BioChem Mashup: Diet Can Mitigate Epilepsy
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The various Keto Diet study results thus far seem to reflect the greatest benefit for children instead of adults. It was unclear why. -Were the adults drinking on the side? Was there increased neuroplasticity in children?
Of those who stayed on the diet for at least a year, about 25% of the children had a ~90% improvement and ~10% were seizure-free, some with little or no meds. Another 50%, had at least a 50%-90% reduction in seizures.
Is it the absence of carbohydrates, or the presence of Ketones that produces the desired effects? Right now, nobody's sure.
Hopefully, one day the benefits shown in the child studies can be used to discover a way to help adults with the disease.
Idea: Can something similar to a Keto diet help adults -a little-? Ex: a Slow-carb, no sweets or fast carbs diet?
Notes: The Ketogenic Diet is very strict and particularly hard to stay on. The epilepsy version of it seems more biased toward fats and more rigidly controlled. It's quite scientific, and the patient normally spends some time in the hospital as all the calibrations for them are made and fine-tuned. Ketoacidosis is always a risk while on ketogenic diets.
In my experience, carbohydrate metabolism is absolute crap if/when you come off it, and seems to take a while to normalize.
During it though, Twinlab MCT Fuel was a godsend, especially when I was just sick and tired of eating.
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Posted by Will on 12/19/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |
