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Keto diets for epilepsy (with Hannah Sutter)

Introduction

Ketogenic diets have come to mean many things. If someone is in ketosis they could claim to be on a ketogenic diet. Keto is sometimes interchanged with low carb high fat (LCHF). Professor Tim Noakes and Dr Johann Windt defined LCHF as follows, with only the very LCHF diet being called ketogenic:

- Moderate carbohydrate diet (26–45% of daily kcal);

- LCHF diet (<26% of total energy intake or <130 g CHO/day);

- Very LCHF (ketogenic) diet (20–50 g CHO/day or <10% of daily kcal of 2000 kcal/day diet) (Ref 1).

This week’s note contains a podcast with Hannah Sutter. You can view the interview at the end of this post. Briefly, Hannah used to be a partner in a large global law firm specialising in corporate finance. She left in 2004 to start making food for the ketogenic diet having been inspired by several clinical studies showing the extraordinary power of this way of eating. She is particularly interested in the ketogenic diet for epilepsy – and especially drug resistant epilepsy and especially all of this in children.

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