{"id":179670,"date":"2024-01-02T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/microbes-may-be-the-secret-behind-keto-diets-protection-against-epileptic-seizures"},"modified":"2024-01-02T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:25:17","slug":"microbes-may-be-the-secret-behind-keto-diets-protection-against-epileptic-seizures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/microbes-may-be-the-secret-behind-keto-diets-protection-against-epileptic-seizures","title":{"rendered":"Microbes May Be The Secret Behind Keto Diet\u2019s Protection Against Epileptic Seizures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microbes-may-be-the-secret-behind-keto-diets-protection-against-epileptic-seizures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diets that are higher in fat and significantly lower in carbohydrates are known to have a drastic effect on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnins.2019.00005\/full\">reducing the incidence of seizures<\/a> in individuals with drug-resistant forms of epilepsy, particularly among children.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s becoming apparent the diet creates some sort of shift in the gut\u2019s microflora, the precise nature of those changes and their connection to the prevalence of seizures remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>In a prospective study on children and experiments involving mice, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) bring us a step closer to understanding how the foods we eat alter the functions of microbes in our digestive system, which in turn affect a variety of neurological functions suspected to play a role in epilepsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diets that are higher in fat and significantly lower in carbohydrates are known to have a drastic effect on reducing the incidence of seizures in individuals with drug-resistant forms of epilepsy, particularly among children. While it\u2019s becoming apparent the diet creates some sort of shift in the gut\u2019s microflora, the precise nature of those changes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}