The symposium was primarily sponsored and coordinated by The Charlie Foundation to Help Cure Pediatric Epilepsy with major support from Nutricia. The conference, which drew 420 attendees from 30 countries, generated broad appeal among physicians, scientists, dietitians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals, as well as interested families. This article briefly reviews some ...

The ketogenic diet (KD) is a nonpharmacologic treatment that has been used for refractory epilepsy since 1921. The KD is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and restricted protein diet, which is calculated and weighed for each individual patient. Introducing and maintaining the diet for a long time remains a challenge. In this study, we evaluated the acceptability, tolerance, and efficacy of a formul...

Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the world. Many mechanisms contribute in cell death in ischemic stroke. Ketogenic diet which has been successfully used in the drug-resistant epilepsy has been shown to be effective in many other neurologic disorders. The mechanisms underlying of its effects are not well studied, but it seems that its neuroprotective ability is media...

The authors present information on ketogenic nutrition therapy to help clinicians understand the basics of these plans and how their use can impact patient care outcomes beyond weight loss.

www.tcd.ie/tsmj 39 With obesity on the rise in the western world, there is increasingly strong medical and social pressure to lose weight. There is a vast array of diet plans and products that take advantage of this pressure; many of which have little scientific basis for their claims. Most diets fall under the three general categories of “do-it-yourself”, non-clinical, and clinical regimes. Do...

Abstract Ketogenic diets (KD) have become popular diet to lose weight. However, the effect of such on brain function has not yet been clarified. Thus, we aimed study effects KD neurogenesis and apoptosis in dentate gyrus by assessing expression Ki-67 Caspase-3. Rats ( n = 24) were divided into four groups: control (normal diet), ketogenic (KD), time-restricted (TRD), combination high-fat (CD) g...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Ketogenic diet (KGD) is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat and average protein dietary formulation, which has been reported with the ability to ameliorate several metabolic diseases, especially those under the direct influence of hormonal disruptions. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) had been found to induce uterine fibroids in laboratory animals through alterations to hormones, l...

1. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a constant infusion of glucose on the ketosis that is observed when dairy cows are deprived of food in early lactation. 2. Cows in early lactation were first deprived of food for 4 days (96h) to induce a 'fasting ketosis'. Glucose was then infused intravenously at a constant rate of 0.75 g/min for 48h while deprivation of food was maintain...