In this week’s podcast, we continue our series on the ketogenic diet and the various conditions it can help with. This week we focus on epilepsy, which is a condition that causes individuals to suffer from seizures. Without proper management, this disease can prevent people from living normal lives; they can’t drive a car, they can’t keep a job. It is debilitating.
About 1/3 of all epilepsy cases are considered refractory, meaning they don’t respond to medication. For these people, the ketogenic diet is usually the only viable option to have relief from their symptoms.
The ketogenic diet affects epilepsy in numerous ways, but at its core, it revolves around getting your blood glucose down, decreasing the excitability capacity of your brain, as well as increasing the seizure threshold.
To learn more about how a low carb ketogenic diet can help manage epilepsy, listen to this week’s podcast.
Links To Studies Mentioned
Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy: What We Know So Far
A Modified Atkins Diet Is Effective for the Treatment of Intractable Pediatric Epilepsy
Chronic Ketosis and Cerebral Metabolism
Ketogenic diet exhibits anti‐inflammatory properties
Brain glycogen—new perspectives on its metabolic function and regulation at the subcellular level
