Ketogenic: The “Honest Medicine” Treatment

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We can formulate ketogenic pet foods similar to those used in a variety of human medical conditions. Although health benefits of these diets have been well-studied in people and well-researched in animal models, Ketopet is the first to make ketogenic food to solely benefit pet health. While diet alone isn't always effective and can't guarantee an outcome, your expectations should be based on many years of animal studies and outcomes in people suggesting ketogenic diets help improve the health of animals and people with serious conditions like cancer, epilepsy, ALS, obesity, and diabetes.

How Ketogenic Diets Work
The ketogenic diet is based on consuming high amounts of fat, sufficient protein and very low to zero carbohydrates. Developed in the early 20th century, it is now specifically used for therapeutic intervention. This high fat diet was initially developed to minimize the risks of epileptic seizures in young children. The diet also became popular as a way to burn away unwanted fats. However, even as a weight loss tool, medical science considers the ketogenic diet a serious medical treatment for obesity and not a fad diet. Finally, Noble Prize winner Otto Warburg's research showed that ketogenic diets kill cancer cells and prevent tumors from growing in animals more than 50 years ago. He suggested that cancer was a "metabolic disorder" caused by problems with mitochondria and not a "genetic disease" caused by problem with the cell's DNA. Warburg's theory was rejected, however, after years and years of science failing to find a single cure for cancer, he is now being proven right and his theory is gaining acceptance. Ketogenic diets are now being used to stop or slow the growth of tumors, especially in those with glioblastoma, an aggressively fatal brain cancer.

Ketogenic Diet - Basic Information
In absence of carbohydrates (glucose and other sugars) in our diet, it is normal for the body to undergo fat metabolism and generate energy. During the process of breaking down fats, large amounts of ketone bodies are produced as a by product by the liver. This metabolic state is called ketosis. In other words, ketosis is an unusual metabolic state wherein energy is produced from fats and not glucose.

How does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Epilepsy?
In a medical survey, children having epileptic problems or seizures were allowed to follow the ketogenic diet stringently for a certain period. The results were quite impressive; one out of every two children achieved prompt recovery, while it helped two out of three participants in reducing seizures.

So, how does the ketogenic diet actually work for treating epileptic children? There is no clear answer regarding ‘how ketogenic diet works’. But one thing is understandable – this diet strategy is focused on producing more ketone bodies by boosting fat metabolism and then, using them for fueling purposes. These mimic natural metabolic responses that take place when the body is exposed to starvation for some time. Effectiveness of inhibiting seizures by fasting method or starvation has been known for many years.

Medical experts are of the opinion that starvation effects triggered by consuming ketogenic diet and accumulated ketones work collectively in inhibiting epileptic seizure. Some children show little or no response to the therapeutic drugs. For such cases of difficult-to-control epilepsy, the ketogenic diet is more effective than the conventional epileptic medications in suppressing seizures. Thus, in the last few decades, this diet approach has gained popularity for natural treatment of epileptic children.

How does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Cancer?

The biological process by which normal cells are transformed into malignant cancer cells has been the subject of an enormous research effort for more than a century. Despite this effort, cures or long-term management strategies for cancers are as challenging today as they were 40 years ago when President Nixon used the National Cancer Act to declare a war on cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, the U.S. saw 569,490 people die of cancer in 2010 - that's about 1,500 people a day! The fact that the number of deaths in 2002 was 555,500 demonstrates no real progress in management over an 8-year period. All one needs to do is read the obituary pages from any local newspaper to know that the "cancer war" is not going well. However, we're now at the precipice of a paradigm shift in which cancer is being proven not to be a "genetic disorder" but a "metabolic disease" best addressed by treatments that attack cancer cells in a whole new way.

A ketogenic diet can be used as a therapeutic that eliminates cancer or controls the disease's progress by switching the body's primary metabolism to a fat-based energy source called ketones rather than using glucose (sugar) derived almost entirely from eating carbohydrates. Because cancer cells require glucose to live but normal cells can use glucose or ketones, an effective therapeutic diet starves cancer cells.

How does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Obesity?

Weight loss is pretty straightforward and easy to understand when it comes to the ketogenic diet. The diet is designed to turn your metabolism into a fat burning machine. Most of the fats are provided by the foods your eat - meat, butter, cream, and oils like olive and coconut oil. However, the more you limit the number of calories in your diet - e.g., the less food you eat - the more your body uses your own fat stores as energy. Unlike fad diets, that often simply decrease weight by depleting the body of water weight, the ketogenic diet actually burns up the fat cells and, as a consequence, they are removed as if it were done by a liposuction procedure. Less fat cells means less "useless weight" and more energy to use for other things besides moving useless weight from one couch to another. By the way, the ketogenic diet includes adequate protein to insure that the body's muscles, unlike the body's fat, are not catabolized (cannibalized for metabolism) to feed itself.