Diets and Epilepsy
(2004) This KETOGENIC DIET as effective treatment for epilepsy is all true and has been fully documented at Johns Hopkins for over 12 years. In fact Meryl Streep did a documentary about a family whose life was nearly ruined by the expensive and ineffective drugs prescribed for her epileptic child. They drove the family into divorce and bankruptcy with their ineffective drugs. Finally the mother took the child against doctor’s advice (of course) to Johns Hopkins to go on a Ketogenic (Atkins type diet), which completely stopped all the seizures, and has been in the literature for over 40 years. Yet, Doctors will only prescribe " proven" drugs. To be proven, a drug ONLY has to be 1 % better than placebo and IF it passes this test, it is permitted to have serious side effects, including in some diseases, death.
I have always enjoyed treating epilepsy with the help of EAV testing to find which substances were aggravating the NERVE POINT and which substances were calming. If the aggravation was from a chemical that perhaps the mother was exposed to during pregnancy, then an appropriate "homeopathic dilution" of the material could be determined with the use of the EAV test equipment. Then this dilution could be used to BALANCE the nerve point, and thus, dramatically diminish the number of seizures, working sometimes within hours.
With the levels of lead and mercury we now find in children, combined with the low levels of essential nutrients, from Magnesium to B 12, Folic Acid and Vitamin D just for openers, it should NOT be surprising that things like asthma, autism, epilepsy, learning disorders etc. are all increasing exponentially.
Garry F. Gordon, MD,DO,MD(H)
Daily Dose
February 6, 2004
More news parents need to hear – but probably never will.
Once again, the best free news service in the world, Reuters, has exposed some recent findings about the high-protein, low-carb diet that could have massive positive ramifications for health – specifically children’s health. But I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if I could find mention of the story in any of the "major" news outlets. Here’s the scoop…
At the recent American Epilepsy Society meeting in Boston, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore revealed some stunning new research which strongly suggests that the Atkins diet (or other popular variations on the low-carb/high protein theme) eliminates epileptic seizures in some children.
In fact, their research showed that after just four months of the diet, 50% of the test’s subjects were SEIZURE-FREE – and remained that way for nearly 2 years!
The study’s authors conducted the research after noticing that the modern low-carb diet used by millions of Americans to lose weight and boost their heart health was similar to the ultra-specific "ketogenic" diet many medication-averse epileptic children have for years used for minimizing the incidence of seizures. However, since the Atkins-type nutritional approach is much simpler to implement (since it doesn’t involve fasting like the ketogenic plan) and maintain, it’s much easier for kids and adolescents to adhere to over the long term.
The Hopkins-based researchers consider these findings encouraging because they may offer children who for one reason or another can’t take modern epilepsy drugs a viable alternative for controlling seizures. But here’s my question:
In the presence of multiple treatment options, why does the medical establishment always use DRUGS as the baseline treatment? Another way of asking the question is this: If the low-carb diet does indeed prove to be effective for eliminating seizures in half of all epileptic kids, do you think conventional doctors will eventually start trying this natural approach first – then call in the drugs for the 50% that don’t respond to it?
Probably not. Why? Because not enough parents will hear about this nutritional option, and so they won’t pressure pediatricians to "prescribe" it. And we all know why this is:Because the mainstream media cares only for stories about "miracle drugs" and the poor, suffering throngs of patients who can’t afford them – not boring old natural, inexpensive cures that anyone can get and that are perfectly safe.
And that’s a real shame. If this were common knowledge, a lot of kids out there could be living more normal lives – without seizures or the risky, expensive drugs that go with them. So spread the word, huh? Maybe we can make up in word-of-mouth for the mainstream’s sell-out of silence.
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