The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
That's the four to one ketogenic diet. In extreme cases, they use a five to one ketogenic diet. And then if you move down the spectrum, it's three to one, two to one, and then modified Atkins, which is like a 1.5 to 1 ketogenic diet to a low glycemic index diet.
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But there are variations of the diet from a four to one, which is a classical ketogenic diet, which is 90% fat and one part protein and carbohydrates. And then, all the way on the other end of the spectrum, there's the modified ketogenic diet or modified Atkins, or low glycemic index therapy or LGIT. And that's more of a one-to-one ketogenic diet. It's personally kind of what I follow, and I think you can construct the diet in a way that produces a mild state of ketosis. I think that could be a good lifestyle diet, but it's far different than the classical ketogenic diet, which was used for pediatric epilepsy.