The ketogenic diet: proposed mechanisms of action
Kirk Nylen, Sergei Likhodii, W McIntyre Burnham, Kirk Nylen, Sergei Likhodii, W McIntyre Burnham
Abstract
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet used to treat drug-resistant seizures, especially in children. A number of possible mechanisms of action have been proposed to explain the anticonvulsant effects of the diet. Four of these hypothetical mechanisms are discussed in the present article: the pH hypothesis, the metabolic hypotheses, the amino acid hypothesis, and the ketone hypothesis.
Source: PubMed