LEARN HOW KETO HAS CHANGED LIVES
Most keto success stories have similarly bleak beginnings, but the important thing is to believe there is hope. The ketogenic diet is often prescribed as a last resort for families and patients that have exhausted all possible medical options, and have nowhere else to turn. A large percentage of those lucky enough to find out about the diet have amazing stories that will inspire you to consider keto as a first line defense or a tool to improve your overall health outcome.
Aurora's Story
My daughter Aurora had her first seizure 11 hours after her 2 month vaccines. She continued to seize for 3 weeks until she had an intercranial bleed. This bleed left a scar in my daughters brain (in her basal ganglia). Because of this scar, my daughter developed intractable Epilepsy. She...
Aaron's Story
Our son Aaron had his first seizure when he was 4 years old, April 2008. His diagnosis was Doose Syndrome. Over the course of 8 months he was put on several different meds or med combinations and his verbal abilities were going. He was also having behavior problems. By Christmas...
Megan's Story
November 26, 1988, Thanksgiving Day Megan Hardgrave and her parents boarded an airplane bound for more than 2000 miles away from home –Texas to Baltimore, Maryland. When Megan was 10 years old, she made a tough commitment of 2 years to a medical diet—the Ketogenic Diet. She had her first...
Christina's Story
It was as stormy morning in late June 1997 when Christina was born, seemingly healthy. At seven months old, immunizations were given and 48 hours later she was hospitalized with seizures eight to ten seconds apart. Like countless other families struggling with seizures, we were in and out of the...
Cameron's Story
Cameron started the keto diet at the age of 8. We were out of options with medications,of which he was on 3 at once, he had the VNS implant and still having upwards of 60 seizures per day. Cameron was sleeping most of the school day either from all the...
Macie's Story
Meet our Keto Kid - Macie. In her family’s eyes, she is a hero by any measure. She has a rare metabolic condition called GLUT1 Transporter Deficiency Syndrome. In GLUT1 ds patients, there is a problem with the way glucose reaches the brain and it is left starving for the...
Carson's Story
Our journey with epilepsy started in January 2009. Carson was 22 month olds when we started noticing him getting really quiet and having staring spells. While staring, he would get this little grin on this face, a grin unlike his normal smile. We took him to the pediatrician and were...
Keaton's Story
Our 4 year old son Keaton has had epilepsy since he was born. He had a very traumatic birth, which also resulted in his Cerebral Palsy. Keaton tried countless medications, none of which adequately controlled his seizures. He always had Grand Mal seizures that would progress to Status Epilepticus every...
Serena
Our story began on September 18 2008. My daughter was 5 years old, in kindergarten and a bright and healthy kid. That all changed when she had her first tonic clonic seizure on September 19, 2008. It was the first day of my new life. It all just went from...
Angelina's Story
This is our "Angel" Angelina Schmitt. Angelina was diagnosted with infantile spasms at 4 months old. We first used ACTH and lived with the unbearable side effects of this drug. We tried every seizure medicine including medicines from outside of the USA and a partial corpus callosum brain surgery. With...