So, what do you guys here think, is it reasonable to believe ketogenic diets (low-carb, low-protein, high-fat diets) help against epilepsy? In my blog-post, I argued it's not reasonable to believe that:
https://flatassembler.github.io/lowcarb.html Wrote:Nearly 100 years have passed, and science still hasn't found an answer to the question how can ketogenic diets or fasting possibly help against epilepsy. And more we know about human brain, less plausible it seems that fasting or ketogenic diet help against epilepsy. Anti-diabetic drugs that result in hypoglycemia don't appear to be effective against epilepsy, and neither do the drugs that cause the liver to produce ketone bodies. High-quality studies are, just with any supposed diet cure, difficult or impossible to make because they are very hard to single-blind, yet alone double-blind. Those studies that show it works, of course, nearly always also show it also causes kidney stones (as ketones usually cause), problems with concentration (because human brain is basically made for a high-starch diet and doesn't work well without starch), high cholesterol (because the fats in coconuts and avocados are for the large part saturated fats), and so on.
