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The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet used to treat drug-resistant seizures, especially in children. A number of possible mechanisms of action have been proposed to explain the anticonvulsant effects of the diet. Four of these hypothetical mechanisms are discussed in the present article: the pH hypothesis, the metabolic hypotheses, the amino acid hypothesis, and the ketone hypothesis.
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Nylen, K., Likhodii, S. & Burnham, W.M. The ketogenic diet: Proposed mechanisms of action. Neurotherapeutics 6, 402–405 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurt.2009.01.021
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