History of the ketogenic diet

(Steve Stephenson) #1

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01821.x/full

#2

Very cool! Though this is the - written - history of using it clinically, and my guess is that almost all of our ancestors were in ketosis either most of the time or very frequently.
Aren’t breastfed babies in ketosis? It seems like it’s our default state, and it’s only as we’ve lost that that we “discover” it as a treatment.

(VLC.MD) #3

Cool resource !

(KM) #4

http://www.bernarrmacfadden.com/ Important, controversial and amusing persona and part of Keto history. His follower used fasting to treat epileptics and from there onwaards the inspiration for Ketogenic diet was brought in the 1920s’ in the neurology community.

(Steve Stephenson) #5

Also in that special issue of Epilepsia: Acetone as an Anticonvulsant