Low-carb diets have been used to treat epilepsy in pediatric patients since the 1920s. (Ref 1) The first low-carb diets used for this purpose were very high in fat, adequate in protein and low in carbohydrates. Today, doctors still successfully...
A seizure is when an electrical storm or misfiring occurs in your brain. Seizures happen for a number of reasons, including low blood sugar levels, or hypoglycemia. The drug Dilantin raises blood glucose, and can be used to treat a seizure in the...
It has been known since the 1920s that your brain metabolism can reduce the intensity and frequency of seizures in epileptic children. Doctors prescribed a special diet, known as the ketonic diet, to change the brain's metabolism to prevent...
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, also known as impulsive petit mal seizures or Janz syndrome, is an inherited epilepsy syndrome. Typically presenting in adolescence, JME is usually a life-long condition. According to the University of Maryland Medical...
The ketogenic diet is a low-carb diet aimed at reducing the intensity and frequency of seizures in epileptic patients. R.M. Wilders, M.D., invented it in the 1920s when access to anti-seizure medications was limited. When anti-seizure medications...
In the brain, calcium is thought to play a particular significant role in both health and disease. In normal amounts, calcium apparently triggers signalling pathways essential for certain type of memory; in excess, calcium is thought to cause...
If your doctor has you taking lamotrigine, you should ask him whether you will need to take supplemental folic acid if he does not mention the issue on his own. In some cases, lamotrigine may interfere with your body's normal folic absorption;...
A seizure is a kind of electrical storm in the brain--symptoms of a seizure include convulsions, unconsciousness, falling to the floor or a general mental absence. There are many types of seizures. Everybody has what is known as a "seizure...
A ketogenic diet is a low-carb, adequate protein, high-fat diet initially intended as a possible treatment for seizures in pediatric patients. It is still widely prescribed when more conventional anti-convulsion treatments fail. A few years after...
A ketosis diet is a diet that makes the body switch from using glucose, or blood sugar, as its main source of energy to using fat. The Atkins diet is one of the most popular ketosis diets. It restricts carbohydrates, the main source of glucose, to...
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat diet sometimes prescribed for epilepsy in patients who do not respond to anti-seizure medicine. The diet forces the brain to switch from its normal metabolism to a different kind of metabolism that has a...
A ketogenic diet has significant benefits for people with intractable epilepsy, or epilepsy that is difficult to control with medication. The diet decreases seizures in two out of three children with intractable epilepsy and may prevent seizures...
Mayo Clinic's R.M. Wilders invented the ketogenic diet in the 1920s as a treatment of epileptic seizures in children. When more anti-seizure medications became available to epileptics, fewer doctors prescribed the diet. Epilepsy centers, such as...
R.M. Wilders, M.D., invented the ketogenic diet in the 1920s as a treatment of epileptic seizures in children. It is now more common to treat epilepsy with prescription anti-seizure medications. But epilepsy centers, such as the Johns Hopkins...
The Mayo Clinic's R.M. Wilder, M.D., developed the ketogenic diet in the 1920s as a cure for epileptic seizures in children. While conventional medicine now is used to control most cases of epilepsy, the ketogenic diet still is used as an...
Ashwagandha is a traditional herb that also goes by the names Indian ginseng and winter cherry. The scientific name for this naturopathic substance is Withania somnifera. Ashwagandha is often used for the treatment of stress, exhaustion, pain and...
Both estrogen and low glucose levels can have a stabilizing effect on the brain. But the biochemistry underlying the stabilization is very different in the two cases. Low glucose levels can make the brain switch from metabolizing glucose to...
Carb depletion diets are diets that restrict either all dietary carbohydrates or certain types of carbohydrates. Most of these diets are aimed at weight loss. An exception is the ketogenic diet, which doctors occasionally prescribe to epileptics...
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat diet originally developed as a treatment of epilepsy in children in the 1920s. Although most cases of epilepsy are now controlled with conventional medication, doctors still prescribe the diet to epileptics who do...
Low-carb diets can be effective weight loss diets. However, unless the diets lead to excessive weight loss, they do not tend to cause irregularities in the menstrual cycle. One exception to this is the ketogenic diet, a low-carb diet originally...
The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, moderate-protein and high-fat diet used to treat epilepsy in individuals who do not respond to epilepsy drugs. The diet has a high success rate but is difficult to maintain, especially outside of a clinical...
Dr. R. M. Wilders devised the ketogenic diet as a way of controlling the frequency and severity of seizures in children in the 1920s. Anti-seizure medications are now the most common way to treat epilepsy. But ketogenic diet centers still...
Coconut oil is a medium-chain triglyceride fat derived from coconut. Most saturated and unsaturated fats that we consume are long-chain triglyceride fats. Because coconut oil is medium-chained, it is easier for the body to metabolize than...
A high-fat diet that does not result in weight gain will naturally contain fewer proteins and carbohydrates than a typical diet. Carbohydrates and proteins are the only food components that can convert into any significant amount of glucose. So,...
Epilepsy is a disorder characterized by recurring seizures. Although the seizures are a symptom of epilepsy, not everyone who has seizures is diagnosed with epilepsy. Seizures may affect people of all ages and are the most common type of...
Fibromyalgia is a chronic medical condition characterized by fatigue and widespread pain, and tender points in muscles, ligaments and tendons throughout the body. A number of drugs--including pain relievers, anti-inflammatory medications and...
A study published in "Epilepsy and Behavior" in February of 2008 regards yoga and epilepsy. In the study, 18 epileptics who practiced supervised yoga for 10 weeks showed a decrease in seizure frequencies. No change was seen in a control group of...
Valerian root is a natural remedy derived from the valerian plant. It has been used for centuries to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, headaches, insomnia and epilepsy. Valerian is currently marketed predominantly as a sleeping aid and calming...
CURE states that when a person has had two or more seizures that have not been provoked by specific events such as trauma, infection, fever or chemical change, he is considered to have epilepsy. More than 3 million persons are affected by...
