The ketogenic diet is six times more likely to result in seizure freedom for treatment-resistant epilepsy compared to trying another anti-epileptic medication.

“the ketogenic diet is a very effective anti-seizure strategy even when drugs fail about two-thirds of patients respond favorably you get you know 10 or 15% or super responders that never have seizures again you can get them off your meds”

“is that a ketogenic diet will completely cure onethird of them will cause about a 50% reduction in seizure activity for another third of them while onethird of them will still be unresponsive. Is that still directionally correct?”

“Yeah. In the context of pediatric epilepsy about twothirds will be so it's that high >> two-thirds will be >> twothirds will be uh therapeutic therapeutically responsive uh to a ketogenic diet therapy for managing seizures are are highly efficacious for managing seizures. Twothirds of people who have failed drug therapy and not we're not just talking about one drug we're talking about polyfarm pharmacy adding multiple drugs like you know uh the list goes on.”

“And then of that 2/3 about onethird have like uh complete like seizure control like more than you know 95 to 100% seizure control and then like 10 to 15% and this really interested me uh when I went to the first conferences back maybe 15 years ago were super responders meaning that they could get on a ketogenic diet follow it for a year or two transition off and never get seizures again.”