The Keto Diet - Definition and application

    There's a wonderful movie with Meryl Streep, First Do No Harm, that is based on the experiences of victims of epilepsy in the 20th Century with the American medical community – parents sometimes watching their children getting sicker and sicker and eventually dying – without being able to do anything but watch – all of their power to make choices taken from them by American medical practices too closely connected to the US government and capitalism.

Money, insurance companies, the government and power of doctors and the AMA all got in the way of parents, trying to prevent their children from dying due to the impacts of drugs making their children sicker and sicker.   

    As the movie demonstrates, there were legitimate alternatives to the experimental practices used in traditional medicine – one of them discovered and used both by John Hopkins and Mayo Clinic – known as the Keto (Ketogenic) diet, that had amazing results - even credited in some cases for curing the epilepsy.

   I was recently asked about the Keto diet – which is almost an exact opposite to the basic nutritional diet plan common in both alternative medicine and common medical practice in the 21st century.
    Whereas a traditional alternative diet calls for a large share of vegetables, the Keto diet calls for fat.

    Recent theory is that most epilepsy is autoimmune related – while there are theories within alternative-medicine that increasing autoimmune disorders and diseases are related to the increased toxins and radiation in our environment – causing or impacting wide array of illnesses – thyroid cancer and disorders; cancer generally; HIV; RA; increased asthma, autism, life-threatening allergies; and many other autoimmune-related disorders and illnesses.
    There are schools of theory that the Keto diet may be the best diet for an array of autoimmune-related health-issues in addition to epilepsy, including the following:

• Types 1 and 2 Diabetes
  
• High blood-sugar levels
  
• High blood pressure
  
• Heart disease
  
• Cancer
  
• Chronic inflammation
  
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Parkinson’s disease
  
• Fatty liver disease
  
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  
• Obesity
  
• Migraines

..but it's important to be aware that the Keto diet does have side effects - so first, ask your nutritionist whether this diet is right for you.