How high-fat diet for epilepsy affects the brain

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3049, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Eggs, steak, and butter on everything--it's not like most health food diets. But the high-fat "ketogenic" diet can be an effective last resort method of reducing seizures in people with epilepsy that doesn't respond to drugs, and may even help a range of other brain conditions. Now researchers may have figured out how it works--and how to make the method more palatable. According to early-stage research, the high-fat ketogenic diet may also help several other brain conditions, including Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. The diet seems to have slowed or even stopped cancer growth in a few people with brain tumors who started to follow it to control seizures.