1. Recommended food: fresh eggs, salmon, organic poultry, herbivorous beef, fermented dairy products, non-starch vegetables, nuts, plant seeds, avocados, lard, butter, anti-inflammatory vegetable oils such as coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, butter produced by avocado oil and herbivorous cattle, etc.
2. Foods not recommended: seed oil, fruits, cereals, sweets, refined or processed cereals (biscuits, bread, steamed bread, etc.). It can be said that anything that improves blood sugar and insulin levels will be rare in this diet.
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Principle and application of ketogenic diet;
Ketogenic diet is a high-fat diet, which is different from ordinary diet. 60%-70% is mainly fat, and 30% is mainly protein and carbohydrate, in order to limit the carbohydrate content. Proper protein and high-fat diet can make full use of the body fat, thus producing ketone bodies, so as to achieve the purpose of treating epilepsy. Ketogenic diet is widely used to treat epilepsy and help autistic children.
Doctors believe that ketogenic diet (high-fat, medium-protein, low-carbohydrate diet) is to simulate hunger, forcing people to burn fat instead of carbohydrates, thus treating uncontrollable epilepsy.
Under normal circumstances, the human body converts the absorbed carbohydrates into glucose, which is transported to all parts of the body as energy, especially to maintain the operation of the brain. However, the ketogenic diet limits the intake of carbohydrates, forcing the liver to convert fat into ketone bodies and deliver them to the brain as energy instead of glucose. When the ketone body content in blood reaches a certain level, it reaches ketosis, which can effectively reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures.
Besides epilepsy, we are also studying the therapeutic effects of keto diet on some nervous system diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, autism, brain tumor, headache, brain injury, advanced cancer, Parkinson's disease and sleep disorder.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-ketogenic diet