2025-08-08
21 分钟This keto diet, you did a study on the ketogenic diet, got the study here,
the ketogenic diet for refractory mental illness, a retrospective analysis of 31 inpatients.
What is the ketogenic diet for someone that might not know?
So a lot of people think or they've heard about a ketogenic diet as a weight loss diet.
They think of it, maybe it's a fad weight loss diet.
They think of it as a very, very low carbohydrate diet.
They might think of it as a diet that's very high in meat and dairy products.
But actually, the ketogenic diet was originally created in 1921,
more than 100 years ago, to stabilize brain chemistry in children with severe seizures.
And this was long before the availability of useful seizure medications.
So these were children who were having multiple seizures per day in many cases.
And so the ketogenic diet was designed back then, created back then,
a very strict version of the ketogenic diet to get as close as possible to fasting without starving children to death.
Because for millennia,
people had noticed that those with epilepsy would often improve if they were fasting.
But you can't fast forever.
So how do you get close to fasting?
This is the original fasting mimicking diet.
How do you get as close to fasting as you can while still providing some nutrition?
So that was the original goal of the ketogenic diet.