Furze Twins
"On December 8th 2017 my twin baby boys were diagnosed with Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome. I was told there is no cure, but amazing success treatment with the ketogenic diet. I did all my research and learned everything I could about the ketogenic diet and Glut1DS. I had...
Victoria
Check out Victoria's favorite keto recipe: Flatbread Pizza It is hard to accurately explain to most people that there are multiple types of seizures. When someone thinks of a seizure, they are generally thinking about a grand mal seizure where convulsing and unconsciousness occur. Yet what they don't realize or...
Gillian
Why Now, Why me? You never forget that feeling. An aura, such a beautiful word but the feeling that comes with it is so intense so profoundly visceral. Recognizable as the precursor to pain, even 3 decades later. I was driving so it was a bit of a shock to...
Jade
Chugging down the track, you overtook me, minding my own business, doing eight year old things, it was like you zapped me inside my tiny little body. I became extremely dizzy; the right side of my body went limp and impossible to use. You pushed me backwards and the hard...
Recipe eBook: Dips, Dressings & Decadence!
We've just created a new Recipe eBook: Dips, Dressings & Decadence! Use these creations to add flavor and fat to your favorite foods. DOWNLOAD NOW Behind the scenes at the Charlie Foundation are frequent discussions about recipes. Keto recipes receive more traffic on our website than any other topic. Good...
Canadian Health Professionals Band Together to Influence Canada Health's Food Guidelines
In June 2017, Health Canada released proposed changes to the Food Guide that will be announced in early 2018, causing this growing group of health professionals to write a rebuttal to the proposal. The group stated that, while the principles take important steps towards solving some of the most problematic and obvious nutrition problems, like limiting sugar...
Charlie Foundation Celebrates 25th Year Anniversary!
OUR TIMELINE The Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies is proud to announce its 25th year of advancing awareness of Ketogenic Therapeutics! The Foundation launched in 1994 after twenty-month-old Charlie Abrahams’ severe epilepsy was cured by a Ketogenic Diet. Charlie had suffered through thousands of seizures, seven anti-epileptic medications, and a...
Thanksgiving eRecipe Book
This Thanksgiving the Charlie Foundation is especially thankful for having friends like the Pierre-Louis family, who graciously prepared the dishes for this Thanksgiving eRecipe Book. Nehemiah (Nehe), their seven year old son and the eldest of three, was cured of his epilepsy by the Ketogenic Diet. In 2015 Nehe was...
SUDEP & Ketogenic Therapies: Part Two
At The Charlie Foundation, our greatest hope is that people achieve seizure freedom—be it through medications, surgery, cannibidiol, or diet therapy. The question we ask is why the esteemed authors of a recent SUDEP article would choose to censor nearly 100 years of published science, including two randomized controlled studies,...
Vitamin D and Epilepsy
Author: Beth Zupec-Kania, RDN, CD Vitamin D and seizure control Vitamin D has been studied for decades for its role in many functions in the body. Known as the “sunshine” vitamin, sunshine remains the best source of receiving Vit. D. Dietary sources include meat, fish, dairy products, and, interestingly,...