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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

How to END Seizures (Epilepsy) Once and For All

Oct 15, 2023
13:52
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Important information for those who experience seizures. Keto diet is effective in eliminating seizures. Ketones have anticonvulsant properties and support the brain. Natural ways to prevent seizures include Healthy Keto diet, intermittent fasting, and exercise. Chapter descriptions explore seizures and epilepsy, differences in ketogenic diets, role of ketones, side effects, and strategies to increase ketones for seizure management.
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Quick takeaways

  • The ketogenic diet can eliminate seizures in drug-resistant epilepsy by 50-70% by increasing ketone levels and stabilizing neurons, modulating neurotransmitters, and protecting the brain against oxidative stress.
  • Ketones are a superior fuel source for the brain compared to glucose, providing anticonvulsant properties, stabilizing neuron excitability, enhancing mitochondrial function, and increasing ATP production for better brain function.

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Ketogenic Diet and Seizures

The podcast episode discusses the relationship between the ketogenic diet and seizures. It explains that seizures are uncontrollable shaking motions of either the whole body or a part of the body, and epilepsy is a condition characterized by multiple or ongoing seizures. Various triggers for seizures are mentioned, including fever, head injury, infections, alcohol or drug withdrawal, and certain medications and toxins. The ketogenic diet is highlighted as an effective remedy for drug-resistant epilepsy, with studies showing it can eliminate seizures by 50-70%. The podcast emphasizes the importance of a healthy ketogenic diet, explaining that it can increase ketone levels and stabilize neurons, modulate neurotransmitters, protect the brain against oxidative stress, and improve mitochondrial function.

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