Sentences with phrase «on ketogenic therapy»

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A 2015 article in the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology sums up the findings of multiple studies on ketogenic diets and cancer with the following: «there is increasing evidence that the ketogenic diet may also be beneficial as an adjuvant cancer therapy by potentiating the antitumor effect of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

Children with drug resistant epilepsy are at risk of insufficient vitamin D status prior to starting ketogenic therapy (3) and although levels can be normalised with vitamin D supplementation, a decline in both whole body and spine bone mineral content while on the ketogenic diet has been reported (4) despite reduction in anticonvulsant medication.

A fall in carnitine status of children and young adults during the first few months of the ketogenic diet has been seen with some cases requiring supplementation (9), although levels tended to normalise with time on diet therapy.

The literature on side effects of ketogenic therapies has mainly studied traditional ketogenic diets.

Although it is often suggested that children with epilepsy who are benefiting from ketogenic dietary therapy continue this for at least two years, duration of treatment could be shorter in patients with infantile spasms who become seizure - free; one study reported no adverse effect on seizure outcomes and less risk of growth disturbances when treatment was tapered down after 8 months (15).

One study has assessed long term outcomes of 68 LGS patients over a mean follow up period of 19 years: of the 19 who tried diet therapy, 5 maintained seizure freedom on the traditional ketogenic diet and one on MAD (13).

A classical ketogenic diet — with a staggering 70 - 90 percent of total calories coming from fat — might not be necessary.51 Classical ketogenic diets restrict protein as well as carbohydrate, since 48 - 58 percent of the amino acids in dietary proteins can be glucogenic, thereby undermining the purpose of a diet intended to generate a high amount of ketones and limit glucose as much as possible.46 As therapy for AD, however, simply lowering carbohydrate intake to a point where some ketones are generated and hyperinsulinemia is corrected could have positive effects just by easing the metabolic burden on the brain.

A team of Trinity College researchers has found that three weeks on a low carbohydrate «ketogenic» diet can lower pain and inflammation in juvenile and adult animals, offering hope that metabolic, diet - based therapies could have broad implications for helping people.

Based on these results and clinical experience with diet - based therapies for pediatric epilepsy, a novel anti-inflammatory and analgesic application of ketogenic diet therapy would be effective, non-addictive and relatively free of major side effects.

Her concern was for her father who is on a ketogenic diet as a cancer therapy.

Kelsey: Hi, Chris, I was just wondering about your thoughts on the ketogenic diet as an approach to cancer prevention and therapy.

Use of the ketogenic diet has spread internationally in recent years, and therefore it has become a therapy increasingly accessible to many different cultural traditions.58 Across all cultures, patients with chronic pain have among the lowest reported quality - of - life scores of any medical condition, and it has a striking negative impact on economies.

This article is part one of a two part series on using the combination therapy consisting of a ketogenic diet, Rerum, and Bravo yogurt.

Information on all types of Ketogenic Therapy, who can use them and how to prepare yourself and your family for treatment..

She lectures all over the world and trains physicians in integrative therapies including the application of mistletoe therapy, and consults with researchers on projects involving immune modulation via mistletoe, hyperthermia and the ketogenic diet.

Eugene Fine was also there with a poster on his just published pilot study on ketogenic diets and cancer — «Targeting insulin inhibition as a metabolic therapy in advanced cancer: A pilot safety and feasibility dietary trial in 10 patients.»

In summary, perhaps through glucose «starvation» of tumour cells and by reducing the effect of direct insulin - related actions on cell growth, ketogenic diets show promise as an aid in at least some kind of cancer therapy and is deserving of further and deeper investigation — certainly the evidence justifies setting up clinical trials.

If you are a physician and are interested in learning about how you can use the ketogenic diet and other therapies for cancer, heart disease, Lyme and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, please be sure and come to our ACIM conference in Orlando, Florida on November 2 through 4 at the wonderful Florida Conference and Hotel Center.