Ketogenic Diets against Epilepsy

[FlatAssembler]

There are actually several potential explanations as to how the diet works.

And those proposed explanations are usually that ketone bodies have anti-convulsion properties or that low-blood sugar helps against epilepsy. Well, low-blood sugar helping against epilepsy is clearly wrong, since giving people insulin doesn't help against epilepsy any better than placebo. As for ketone bodies, well, drugs that make the liver produce more ketone bodies don't work on animals against epilepsy, and there is no reason to think they will work on humans.
If there's anything to it, it's much more likely due to reasons unrelated to low blood sugar or ketosis, like some form of protein in some edible plants (other than avocados and coconuts) leading to an allergic reaction leading to seizures in some people.

Does it reduce the frequency and severity of seizures? Absolutely.

So does placebo. The question is whether they do it better than placebo.

---

Also, increasing the risk of kidney stones by 10 times or so is a mild side-effect according to you?