High Fat Heals Brain

The author's comments are useful for perspective.  It's good to know these studies are underway.  There's good reason to believe that they will show a positive effect on all of these conditions by changing the diet to resemble the paleolithic model.

So we have over 80 years experience with this ketogenic, low-carb high-fat diet, and no records of these kids developing heart disease due to the diet. Just tons of data showing how they could go from 5000 plus seizures a day, in some instances, to none. Without drugs. And now we are seeing that this low carb high fat ketogenic diet is being investigated for curing other diseases (See: Low Carbohydrate High Fat Ketogenic Diet May Reverse Kidney Failure in People with Diabetes), as Thiele comments:

Right now there’s some preliminary evidence in Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease that a diet similar to the ketogenic diet may be very effective. And there’s actually a critical trial, ongoing, in ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s, disease of using a similar diet and there’s a lot of evidence, mainly animal model evidence, that similar diets may be very effective in helping to treat cancer. There’s evidence in prostate cancer and there’s a lot of evidence in some brain cancers, like neuroblastoma. And I think that’s because cancer cells are rapidly dividing so they have a very high metabolic rate and they use a lot of energy. And so the ketogenic diet basically shuts down the cell’s energy production and makes the cells rely more heavily on fat metabolism, and cancer cells, I think, are not thought to do that as effectively.