Within the past two decades, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and others have shown that ketogenic diet therapies—high-fat, low-carbohydrate and adequate protein diets that metabolize fat into chemicals called ketones that protect the brain and foster healthy neuron growth—are safe and effective in treating both children and adults with drug-resistant forms of epilepsy. However, while established guidelines are available for using ketogenic diet therapy to reduce seizures in children, there aren’t formal recommendations for adults.
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