Ketogenic Diet, Inflammation, and Epilepsy

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Abstract

Ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate metabolic intervention that has been in use for the treatment of epilepsy for almost a hundred years. This metabolic intervention affects epilepsy through multiple mechanisms, which combine to exert potent anti-inflammatory activity. Thereby, ketogenic diet not only affects seizures per se but also has the potential to attenuate or prevent the development of epilepsy and its progression. This chapter will focus on novel disease-modifying properties of ketogenic diet therapy and will discuss therapeutic challenges and opportunities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProgress in Inflammation Research
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages185-201
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Publication series

NameProgress in Inflammation Research
Volume88
ISSN (Print)1422-7746
ISSN (Electronic)2296-4525

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Immunology

Keywords

  • Adenosine
  • Disease modification
  • Epileptogenesis
  • Metabolic therapy
  • Metabolism

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