Ketogenic Diets against Epilepsy

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

@FlatAssembler

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.

And yet, the diet works, lol. An incomplete picture of the mechanism of action of a particular treatment is not any kind of argument or evidence against its demonstrable efficacy.

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.

How did you determine what is “more likely” here? Show your work.

That occurred to me as well. I find it kind of intellectually perverse for Fiat to so roundly reject something that obviously works, because we’re not yet sure of the actual mechanism.

We know the diets work across all age groups. We know what the side effects are and how to manage them. We know that people’s live are being improved at low risk and low cost, but Fiat seems to want to reject this method out of hand. Why?  

Boru