history: I have started a keto diet
knowledge: The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children.
response: Neat, in medicine, it is the main diet to help treat children with refractory epilepsy!
history: I have started a keto diet
Neat, in medicine, it is the main diet to help treat children with refractory epilepsy!
A diet that can help with epilepsy? I've never heard of that, how does it work?
knowledge: An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, a state known as ketosis, leads to a reduction in the frequency of epileptic seizures.
response: It happens due to a state called ketosis, which is when the blood has a high amount of ketone bodies. Ketosis leads to lowered epileptic seizures.
history: I have started a keto diet
Neat, in medicine, it is the main diet to help treat children with refractory epilepsy!
A diet that can help with epilepsy? I've never heard of that, how does it work?
It happens due to a state called ketosis, which is when the blood has a high amount of ketone bodies. Ketosis leads to lowered epileptic seizures.
I did not know that but its a great thing
knowledge: Almost 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, and the effect persists even after discontinuing the diet.
response: Yeah, just about half the kids and young folk who has epilepsy and tried some variant of this diet saw their seizure numbers drop by at least 50 percent.
history: I have started a keto diet
Neat, in medicine, it is the main diet to help treat children with refractory epilepsy!
A diet that can help with epilepsy? I've never heard of that, how does it work?
It happens due to a state called ketosis, which is when the blood has a high amount of ketone bodies. Ketosis leads to lowered epileptic seizures.
I did not know that but its a great thing
Yeah, just about half the kids and young folk who has epilepsy and tried some variant of this diet saw their seizure numbers drop by at least 50 percent.
Wow what else do you know about it
knowledge: Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fueling brain-function.
response: Well, the typical thing is that the carbohydrates found in food are changed into glucose. That glucose travels through the body and charges up brain-functions.
history: I have started a keto diet
Neat, in medicine, it is the main diet to help treat children with refractory epilepsy!
A diet that can help with epilepsy? I've never heard of that, how does it work?
It happens due to a state called ketosis, which is when the blood has a high amount of ketone bodies. Ketosis leads to lowered epileptic seizures.
I did not know that but its a great thing
Yeah, just about half the kids and young folk who has epilepsy and tried some variant of this diet saw their seizure numbers drop by at least 50 percent.
Wow what else do you know about it
Well, the typical thing is that the carbohydrates found in food are changed into glucose. That glucose travels through the body and charges up brain-functions.
Ah I see, but since this diet is low on carbohydrates, you got to use the ketones! What are the side-effects of the diet though?
knowledge: The most common adverse effect is constipation, affecting about 30% of patients—this was due to fluid restriction, which was once a feature of the diet, but this led to increased risk of kidney stones, and is no longer considered beneficial.
response: The diet once had fluid restrictions, that meant that around 30% of the patients would get constipation, the most typical negative effect.