RE: Ketogenic Diets against Epilepsy
May 18, 2020 at 4:05 pm
LadyForCamus Wrote:It’s used to treat children with seizure disorders who don’t respond to medication, and it has been demonstrated to be effective.
"Demonstrated" really isn't a word commonly used in science, since science usually doesn't deal with absolute certainty. And, when it comes to claims such as a diet being capable of treating some disease, I don't think you can even reach reasonable certainty.
brewer Wrote:I know it been used for thousands of years
Well, yeah, fasting (which has similar physiological effects to ketogenic diet) has been recommended as a treatment for epilepsy since ancient times. But, guess what, so has bloodletting. Bloodletting has been used to treat various illnesses (including anaemia) for thousands of years, yet we now know it was, in best cases, a way to alleviate the symptoms without treating the underline cause, and, in most of the cases, it was actually counter-productive.
