Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets
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Implication
Narrative review reveals broad therapeutic benefits of ketogenic diets across diverse chronic conditions, suggesting dietary interventions may reduce reliance on long-term pharmaceutical therapies.
Key Points
- To review the therapeutic scope, physiological mechanisms, and clinical evidence for very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets beyond their established roles in obesity and epilepsy.
- Narrative literature synthesis assessing decades of historical clinical use and modern biochemical evidence.
- Qualitative evaluation of physiological ketosis mechanisms across multiple chronic, metabolic, and neurological disease states.
- Ketogenic diets demonstrate therapeutic efficacy across diverse clinical conditions, including diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, acne, cancer, neurological diseases, and cardiovascular risk factors.
- Nutritional ketosis offers a viable pathway to reduce or eliminate long-term pharmaceuticals with adverse side effects, though professional misconceptions continue to limit broader clinical application.
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Paoli et al. (2013) studied this question.