Ketogenic diet in the treatment of cancer – Where do we stand?
Molecular Metabolism, 2020 Background: Cancer is one of the greatest public health challenges worldwide, and we still lack complementary approaches to significantly enhance the efficacy of standard anticancer therapies.
Daniela D. Weber +5 more
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Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy [PDF]
Nutrients, 2019 Currently available pharmacological treatment of epilepsy has limited effectiveness. In epileptic patients, pharmacological treatment with available anticonvulsants leads to seizure control in <70% of cases. Surgical intervention can lead to control in a selected subset of patients, but still leaves a significant number of patients with uncontrolled
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Archives of Epilepsy, 2022 Objective:Patients with intractable childhood epilepsy may benefit from ketogenic diet treatment. Management of ketogenic diet depends on the knowledge level and practice and attitudes of their caregivers.
Sinem Bayram, Hilal Çalışkan
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Ketogenic diet: A nutritional remedy for some metabolic disorders
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2020 Background: Ketogenic diets (KD) consist of high fat, moderate protein and low carbohydrates.Aim: This review explores the effect of ketogenic diet and its mechanism of actions in disease management.Methods: Recent information on ketogenic diets and ...
Titilola Omowumi Kayode +3 more
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Ketogenic diet and fasting diet as Nutritional Approaches in Multiple Sclerosis (NAMS): protocol of a randomized controlled study [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in young adults that may lead to progressive disability.
Bahr, Lina Samira +12 more
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The Ketogenic Diet Effect on Organ Chemistries
Polytechnic Journal, 2023 Background: ketogenic diet refers to the diet plan that emphasizes foods that are high in fats, moderate proteins and very low carbohydrates to consume more calories from fat rather than carbohydrates and is commonly used as a weightloss plan and in rare
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Differential utilization of ketone bodies by neurons and glioma cell lines: a rationale for ketogenic diet as experimental glioma therapy [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Even in the presence of oxygen, malignant cells often highly depend on glycolysis for energy generation, a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect.
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Reduced pain and inflammation in juvenile and adult rats fed a ketogenic diet. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate regimen that forces ketone-based rather than glucose-based cellular metabolism. Clinically, maintenance on a ketogenic diet has been proven effective in treating pediatric epilepsy and type II diabetes ...
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Efficacy of modified atkins ketogenic diet in chronic cluster headache. An open-label, single-arm, clinical trial [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction: Drug-resistant cluster headache (CH) is still an open clinical challenge. Recently, our group observed the clinical efficacy of a ketogenic diet (KD), usually adopted to treat drug-resistant epilepsies, on migraine.
Cherubino Di Lorenzo +9 more
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THE IMPACT OF THE KETOGENIC DIET ON CHOLESTEROL LEVELS IN “HYPER RESPONDERS”
American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2023 Therapeutic Area: Nutrition/Exercise Background: The ketogenic diet has been popularized as a rapid weight loss diet. Though advertised as safe, the cardiovascular implications of this diet have not been fully understood.
Tyler Schmidt, MD. +5 more
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