Ketogenic Meals at School: Do You Know Your Legal Rights?
Author: Dawn Martenz School years are an exciting and integral part of childhood. Yet for students who manage health conditions with medically supervised ketogenic therapies, the school environment can sometimes be challenging to manage. Families are often concerned with how mealtimes will be managed and how compliance with ketogenic therapies...
Exogenous Ketones - What Are They?
The Charlie Foundation receives questions about ketogenic diet therapy and reaches out to experts to help answer them. A commonly asked question is in regard to ketone supplements. Ketogenic diet therapy has existed nearly 100 years without the use of ketone supplements. We want to make it crystal clear that...
Nehemiah's Recovery From Epilepsy with Ketogenic Therapy & a Special Presentation!
Jim and Nancy Abrahams (left) met Nehemiah's (Nehe) parents at an epilepsy conference in Los Angeles in 2015. They were desperate to find a solution to Nehe's epilepsy which worsened with medications and made his behavior unbearable. Nehe had his first Tonic Clonic seizure at 2 and half years old. ...
Reese
Until she was 1 1/2, Reese was pretty normal. She was a wonderful, curious, always happy, and easy going little girl. She hit nearly all of her motor milestones early and knew about 40 ASL signs, so she was communicating pretty well, although she wasn’t talking quite as much as...
Ketogenic Therapy For Brain Health
Introduction by Beth Zupec-Kania. I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Chris Palmer at the 6th Global Symposium on Ketogenic Therapies in Jeju South Korea last year. We discussed his clinical work at McClean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts of applying ketogenic therapy in his psychiatric practice. He's a trailblazer in...
Keto versus Goliath
Keto Vs Goliath By Jim Abrahams Among my favorite medical euphemisms is the word “underutilized.” Underutilized, along with “last resort” are frequently used terms by medical professionals to describe the Ketogenic Diet as a treatment for epilepsy. So what does underutilized mean in this context? It means that worldwide over...
Checking for Ketones
Checking for ketones By Beth Zupec-Kania, RDN, CD A frequently asked question when starting a ketogenic diet therapy is “how do I know I’m in ketosis?”. There are three different methods for checking and monitoring ketosis. I’ll explain each then give examples of how my patients have selected the one...
Reese
We are forever grateful for the ketogenic diet. It has truly given us our daughter back!! Reese is now a beautiful, healthy 7 year old who is such an inspiration to others. On January 24th, 2016, at age 4, Reese had her first tonic clonic seizure. It was the scariest...
The Story of Rosemary and Infantile Spasms
Rosemary and Infantile Spasms Authors Jessica Lee and Beth Zupec-Kania This blog has two parts. First, the story of young Rosemary, written by her mother Jessica Lee. Rosemary was diagnosed with infantile spasms, a rare form of epilepsy. Her picture as an infant was taken in the hospital while undergoing...