Seizures | Ketone Healing | Autism Healing
Get the books: Includes important keto/seizure information: Stop Autism Now!:, A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Reversing Autism Spectrum Disorders, Bruce Fife, N.D. | The Keto Kid, Helping Your Child Succeed on the Ketogenic Diet, Deborah Snyder, DO. | Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide by John Freeman, M.D.
The ketogenic diet gave me my son back.
www.CharlieFoundation.org | www.MatthewsFriends.org | It's all about healthy fats including coconut (milk, cream, oil, chips).
Thousands of children have been helped with the ketogenic diet...Bryce had up to 25 seizures daily before he started the ketogenic diet. Within three weeks, he was seizure free. He was maintained on the diet and one medication for a year, then the diet alone for another year...
~ Deborah Snyder, DO and Stop Autism Now! Dr. Bruce Fife, pg. 92
...The ketogenic diet gave me my son back, says Snyder. Bryce has been seizure free, medication free, and on no special diet for four years and counting. Rather than becoming mentally retarded as was his prognosis, he just completed third grade....
~ Deborah Snyder, DO and Stop Autism Now! Dr. Bruce Fife, pg. 92
...Depending on the sensitivity of the examination, it is estimated that at least 30 percent and as many as 82 percent of autistic children experience periodic seizures...When Matthew was 9 months old, he was having a bath when his first seizure occurred recalls his mother Emma Williams...By the time Matthew was 15 months old he was having seizures daily...
~ Deborah Snyder, DO and Stop Autism Now! Dr. Bruce Fife, pg. 91-93
...He was diagnosed with uncontrollable complex epilepsy...When Matthew was two years old she learned about the ketogenic diet. When she asked her neurologist about it, he dismissed it as an unproven fringe therapy...By age 6, Matthew had made no progress whatsoever. Emma was concerned because there were no drugs left for him to try and every type of brain scan had been done...
~ Deborah Snyder, DO and Stop Autism Now! Dr. Bruce Fife, pg. 91-93
...Matthew started the [ketogenic] diet in the summer of 2002. It started out shakily. Matthew couldn't have his favorite foods...Over the next few days he calmed down...He soon became happier and began sleeping through the night....Within two weeks of starting the diet, Matthew's seizures were reduced by 90 percent and within eight months he was off all medications. He began to speak his first words...Emma started
www.MatthewsFriends.org in 2004 to...support other parents seeking help through the ketogenic diet.
~ www.MatthewsFriends.org and Stop Autism Now! Dr. Bruce Fife, pg. 92-94
Also see CBD Oil for Epilepsy and Charlotte's Web: How Marijuana Helped Stop a Child's Severe Seizures. (Both coconut and CBD are strong anti-inflammatories.)
In 1993, 11 month old Charlie Abrahams developed difficult to control epilepsy. As a last resort, while Charlie was experiencing multiple daily seizures and multiple daily medications, his parents turned to a Ketogenic Diet for help. The diet worked. Charlie became seizure and drug free within a month. He was on the diet for five years and now eats whatever he wants. He has never had another seizure. See how it all began - and what became of Charlie.
~ www.CharlieFoundation.org
In recent years new applications of the Ketogenic Diet for cancer, autism, ALS, Parkinson's Disease, type-2 diabetes, and traumatic brain injury have emerged. Scientific data regarding these new uses of diet therapy is accumulating rapidly. Variations of the Ketogenic Diet for these other disorders are being developed.
~ www.CharlieFoundation.org