The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
there's a lot of research for ketogenic diets for neurodegenerative disorders um there's a lot of research for Parkinson's patients there's a lot of research now for Alzheimer's disease um and other muscular neurod degenerative disorders
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ketogenic diets may be beneficial for some people kids with intractable epilepsy people with end stage parkinson's alzheimer's if your mitochondria are already broken a ketogenic diet might be beneficial
so i think there are two clear benefits to a ketogenic diet these being intractable epilepsy there's very good data that in children or adults with epilepsy a ketogenic diet can be quite helpful and there's some reasonable data that in those with neurodegenerative disorders parkinson's perhaps alzheimer's diseases in which we know the mitochondria are broken and in which to be frank pyruvate dehydrogenase and glucose metabolism may be broken for some reason or another bypassing that with beta oxidation and fatty acid oxidation seems to improve mental functioning for a lot of people
so if you have a brain disorder whether it's severe epilepsy whether it's parkinson's whether it's alzheimer's i think using ketogenic diets as an adjunctive treatment to kind of bypass the main energy system that the human body uses that being the glucose energy system through pyruvate dehydrogenase is a benefit