La historia de la dieta cetogénica
Poco después del nacimiento de mi nieto se hizo evidente que él sufría de ataques convulsivos implacables. A pesar de que algo andaba definitivamente mal sus médicos de atención primaria […]
Archivos Mensuales: octubre 2014
The Waisman Center and its Autism-Related Efforts
This path month I had the opportunity to visit the Waisman Center in Madison, Wisconsin in order to provide the John D. Wiley Seminar Series. I was hosted by my […]
Early- and late-onset complications of the ketogenic diet for intractable epilepsy
The following is an abstract of a publication dealing with the side-effects of the ketogenic diet. The reference to the article is: Kang HC, Chung DE, Kim DW, Kim HD.Early- […]
La Base Nacional de Datos para la Investigación del Autismo (NDAR): Como el Gobierno Federal Juega con Favoritos en la Investigación del Autismo
De acuerdo con su Página web (http://ndar.nih.gov/): «La Base Nacional de Datos para la Investigación del Autismo (NDAR) es un repositorio de datos de investigación financiada por el NIH que […]
Part 3: Implementing the ketogenic diet
This is the last of a series of blogs written about the ketogenic diet. The first two dealt with a historical background to the diet (http://bit.ly/11Q9HWX) as well as some […]
La investigación del autismo financiada por el gobierno federal de los Estados unidos
James Madison escribió la célebre frase: «Si los hombres fueran ángeles, no sería necesario ningún gobierno. Si los ángeles gobernaran a los hombres, ni controles externos ni internos en el […]
THE ROLE OF THE KETOGENIC DIET IN AUTISM OR WHY BACON IS YOUR FRIEND? PART 2: METABOLIC CONSIDERATIONS
Low carbohydrate diets create fuel metabolism by using fatty acids and ketones while minimizing glucose utilization. In a low carbohydrate diet the body consumes the available blood glucose and then […]
Risk of seizure recurrence after achieving freedom on the ketogenic diet
My most recent post on the ketogenic diet was meant to convey one possible treatment approach for those cases where seizures had not been controlled by medication. Although the ketogenic […]
Autismo: la utilidad del ejercicio
Estar sano no es sólo una cuestión de lo que se come, sino del nivel de actividad que se mantiene durante el día. La dieta y el ejercicio van mano […]
THE ROLE OF THE KETOGENIC DIET IN AUTISM OR WHY BACON IS YOUR FRIEND PART 1: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Shortly after my grandson was born it became evident that he was suffering from relentless seizures. Although something was definitely wrong to us his primary physicians believed that we were […]
Cortical Chauvinism 