The ketogenic diet was originally developed and medically validated for treating epilepsy by shifting brain metabolism to ketone utilization.

“The ketogenic diet was originally designed, if you will, for epilepsy, it has a whole relationship to epilepsy and controlling epileptic seizures, and it can in fact allow people to achieve focus, concentrated brain states.”

“Yeah, that's right. So a lot of its focus has really been on kids with epilepsy, but certainly it's a safe thing to try, so a lot of adults, you know, will try it as well.”

“So the ketogenic diet, unbeknownst to most people, was actually developed a hundred years ago, 1921, by a physician for one and only one purpose-- to treat epilepsy.”

“what we're talking about the ketogenic diet for various mental health disorders and cited some spectacular results um and this has had a huge impact on everybody's thinking about what ketogenic diets originally were for it was developed as a medical treatment for epilepsy”

“And in fact, ketogenic diets, as you say, were developed not for cancer, but for epileptic seizure syndromes.”