Ketones and Epilepsy

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There are a number of neurological conditions where they are protective, but those are specific to those cases. I don't think that the data indicate that ketones just in general are good for brain health. It's still a case-by-case basis. We don't really understand seizures well enough to subtype people according to who will benefit from what and there's a lot of trial and error involved.

Chris Masterjohn earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2012. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Comparative Biosciences department of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From August 2014 to December 2016, he served as Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York.

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