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hey guys dr. Burke here in this video

we’re going to talk about seizures and

the ketogenic diet okay

doing keto is the most effective thing

you can do if you have epilepsy alright

why is that because when you run your

body on this alternative fuel source

which is ketones versus glucose you

severely reduce the stress on the brain

it’s a more efficient fuel and to get in

ketosis you have to drop your

carbohydrates down or do fasting or I

recommend do a combination of both okay

couple of things that will do it will

increase your mitochondria which is your

energy factories of the brain

specifically in the structure of the

brain called the hippocampus so it

supports hippocampus ketone help this

structure in the brain which is involved

in spatial memory like a your ability to

locate yourself in time and space like

going in a room like where I go where am

I going where like where did I come from

that type of thing memory in general and

has a big role in epilepsy okay so this

structure right here and ketones support

that ketones slow neuro degeneration so

ketones are neural protective they

protect the neurons of the nerve cell

but seizures develop from excess

glutamate now what is that glutamate is

an amino acid and it’s basically a

neurotransmitter 90% of the brain uses

this neurotransmitter to communicate

it’s an excitatory neurotransmitter and

so what happens when you run your body

on glucose too much of it in too much

insulin you start developing too much

glutamate and that becomes toxic or

cytotoxic that’s really what’s creating

the misfiring and the disruption of the

neurons in the brain that leads to

seizures

now the other opposing neurotransmitter

is called GABA that’s inhibitory ketones

support gaba and they don’t support

glutamate so it helps balance this thing

out so you have you you have the

situation where it instantly puts the

brain in the situation where you just

don’t have this condition anymore so

so it’s improves increases gaba

neuroprotective ketones are anti-seizure

i have anti seizure effects and if you

have not done this and you have seizures

you definitely need to research this

look into in a minute fasting look into

how to do ketosis and really understand

what insulin resistance is I I’ll put a

link down below for some research you

can check out and some ways to do this

and then share the results thanks for

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