I appreciate the thoughts on the ketogenic diet. I'm actually fairly familiar with it. I think it's a great tool for many. I also think that the dominant American diet these days might be a major cause of epilepsy and many other health concerns. The ketogenic diet may be a way of responding to epilepsy. I think there are ways of preventing it from happening or possibly even healing it. But, corporate agriculture and the food industry holds a lot of power and there isn't sufficient research.

Dear friends, at the Neuroscience center I go to, the Ketogenic diet/ Modified Atkins Diet for Epilepsy are a Treatment supervised by a Johns Hopkins University Med Center Representative from their Epilepsy Unit (a nutritionist/ blood/urine specialist).
It's a go to for Drug Resistant Epilepsy and Onset Epilepsy.
Not something I want to do. doctor said I had to do.
@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member According to the Treatment manual, the Keto diet started in 1924 by Dr. Peterson at the Mayo Clinic. Plenty of history on it. Not for everybody.
i would ask your doctor about it.
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Just saw my nutriionist yesterday. After reading my blood work for ketones, and discussing my eating habits, recommended I cut 10 more carbs and add more fat/ change the oil I cook with, find more ways to increase fat consumption. gave me some ideas to try. Good news is stating spells have stopped and auras have decreased, but that might be the new VNS too.

When talking about diet and epilepsy it seems people immediately want to talk about the ketogenic diet. It's one choice. What I'd really like to understand more is how the changes in what we consume over the past 100 years have impacted epilepsy. I've seen some data that suggests there's been a significant increase in cases, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of historical studies. What we do know is that the rise in quite a few chronic illnesses corresponds with the move to heavily processed foods, increased use of pesticides, and increased consumption of sugars. We also know that genetically our bodies aren't equipped to make massive diet changes in just 2 or 3 generations like we have. So, how much are we just seeing the impacts of poisoning ourselves?

Nothing healthy about breakfast cereal, unless fortified like "Total". One look at the side of a box is plain to see it's junk food. Yet it's pushed so hard on kids advertising. Corn and wheat. Govt interest? Help the farmers? Agreed@BryanMartin.