The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, limited-carbohydrate diet designed to mimic fasting metabolism and produce ketone bodies as the brain's primary energy source, achieving anticonvulsant and neuroprotective effects.
Focus areas
Drug-resistant or refractory epilepsy
Doose, West, Dravet, and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes
GLUT1 transporter deficiency
Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) deficiency
Super-refractory status epilepticus