The keto diet is low in carbohydrates and high in proteins and fats George Dolgikh/Alamy
Mice are more resistant to seizures when treated with gut microbes from children with epilepsy on the low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet. This suggests that the diet鈥檚 anti-seizure effect comes from changes to the gut microbiome.
The ketogenic, or keto, diet has been used to treat epilepsy for around a century, but how it does so is unclear. Previously, at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues found that the diet doesn鈥檛 protect against seizures in mice without microbiomes.
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