Rate: The ketogenic diet had this really specific use, that was kind of the end of the diet for decades to come. Rate: Some people still used it as a treatment for epilepsy, if that epilepsy was like drug resistant or their kid didn't do well on the drugs,. But it really sort of died out until the 19 nineties. Oh, we're going to go little hollywood interlude here. Is i ging to be popularized by mal gibson or something? You're so close.