i had the strict keto diet for about 5+ years and i am on the loosely base keto diet. the strict keto diet you first fast for a day or so and the limit yourself. you have to get the food exactly right all the time. mostly meat fruits and veggies and the good oils, oils are optional. you have to weight everything. the loosely base diet is the same thing as the strict only without the scale. the only bad thing is you can't cheat. of you do, you have to start all over again.
it will help. i use to have seizures 1-4 in 2-3 hours a day. with the diet i have 1-2 space-outs at night. i am kinda new to the loosely keto but you will loose weight to a normal weight.

being that I mostly on a plant based diet what helped cut back on my seizure more than my medications which still don't control my seizures is taking 2x a daily a plant based omega dha/epa this has cut back my seizures more than any medication.

If you’re eating fruit you’re not in ketosis. It’s called the ketogenic diet because your body will go into ketosis when there are no carbohydrates or sugars on the scene to digest, and so the body then turns to digesting fat as it’s primary form of sustenance; that turn of events creates ketosis. If you’re eating fruit the sugar in that fruit portion completely undoes all of your hard work carb-counting, because it causes a way higher spike in blood sugar than carbs. And the point is to force your body to stop looking for carbs/sugar. Just something to consider if you’re trying the ketogenic diet. If you think it’s helping you, cut out the fruit. I hope you take this as the friendly (although unsolicited) piece of advice I meant it as.

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member what is your findings when doing your research for this? the keto diet is no grains, no high or added sugars, no processed stuff (tv dinners or premade dinners). cancer feeds of sugar. meats are proteins and the keto diet is limited proteins.

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I have a consult with the dietary clinic at UCHealth in Denver this coming Wednesday to talk about exactly that to help me with my medication resistant epilepsy. I’ve been asking for help with it for awhile but the neurologists kept pushing exploratory brain surgery as my only option left.

I’ll let you know how it goes.