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A clinical study out of the Medical college of Wisconsin and alo with the Wisconsin Childrens Hospital using a high fat and low to almost zero carbs (Ketogenic diet) improved kids with epilepsy by 90% reductions in their seizure frequency.
I think they just have to be careful going overboard with the protein, severe over indulgence in just protein can cause ketosis...which does damage kidneys (sometimes liver). Balancing it with the fats and low low carbs stops it.
I think they just have to be careful going overboard with the protein, severe over indulgence in just protein can cause ketosis...which does damage kidneys (sometimes liver). Balancing it with the fats and low low carbs stops it.
Yeap that's why it's a high fat diet and not a high protein diet.
They have been using this for years. Works well for me too. No vegetable oil though. The reason you have to keep your fat high is because too much protein can get converted to carbs via gluconeogenisis.
Carbs, proteins and fats are broken down to the same things for the body to "burn", just extra step to break the fatty acid down first....proteins break down to the same thing plus an extra nitrogen (that goes off and is a pain in the butt). They all become sugars after a fashion.
Humm, yeah when I saw the ketogenic it made me think of very high protein diets. I hear good things about the diet for seizure disorders, though also it either works really well or it's not much of an impact. I kind of wonder why it does have an impact on some and not on others, if it's differences in how the seizures are proigated or rebuilding cell membrane inhibitors.
Carbs, proteins and fats are broken down to the same things for the body to "burn", just extra step to break the fatty acid down first....proteins break down to the same thing plus an extra nitrogen (that goes off and is a pain in the butt). They all become sugars after a fashion.
Humm, yeah when I saw the ketogenic it made me think of very high protein diets. I hear good things about the diet for seizure disorders, though also it either works really well or it's not much of an impact. I kind of wonder why it does have an impact on some and not on others, if it's differences in how the seizures are proigated or rebuilding cell membrane inhibitors.
When carbs are kept very low for a period of time your body starts producing ketones where stored body fat is used for energy. Fat itself is not turned to carbs when the switch is made.
When carbs are kept very low for a period of time your body starts producing ketones where stored body fat is used for energy. Fat itself is not turned to carbs when the switch is made.
Yeap and when in ketosis it's a different path in the Krebs cycle as to how ATP is produced in the Mitochondria.
Also there was a NIH study using mice with ALS showing a Ketogenic diet helped them as it seems that being in ketosis helps the neurons but i haven't seen any human studies of this.
Ketosis is very healthy. You have very little circulating insulin or triglycerides in the blood. Bodyfat will be kept very low and combined with exercise would be the healthiest one, two punch you could possibly do.
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