Gut Microbiome in Ketogenic Diet Protects against Epileptic Seizures

A low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet (KD) can help to treat refractory epilepsy, a condition that affects more than a third of epileptic patients who don’t respond to existing anticonvulsive drugs. What scientists haven’t understood is how this kind of diet can help to prevent seizures. A team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has now found that gut bacteria play a key role in mediating the protective effects that a ketogenic diet can have on refractory epil