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Can cutting out carbs treat epilepsy? The ketogenic diet as a drug
The ketogenic diet has actually been used in the treatment of epilepsy since the 1920s. It had been known that ...
Low-carb diets might help treat Alzheimer’s, ALS—and even cancer?
[T]here is a growing interest in [Ketogenic] extreme high-fat diet among researchers. In 2019 alone, more than a thousand new ...
Obesity gene? Suppressing this variant could be key to weight loss
More than five years ago, a group of researchers from Norway and several other countries found an important clue in ...
No root cause: What if mental health symptoms are the actual disease?
“In the prevailing understanding of mental disorders, the premise is that an underlying cause exists,” says Sverre Urnes Johnson, associate ...
Birth of the placebo effect: How an 18th century doctor’s bogus animal magnetism treatment ‘cured’ patients
Word spread amongst the Parisian upper class in the late 18th century: A new man in town had a novel ...
