Ketogenic diet is more efficient than antiepileptic drugs

• The ketogenic diet's success rate greatly exceeds that of the medications.

• Its side effects, both cognitive and allergic, appear fewer than most available medications.

• Understand why changing from a glucose energy to a ketone energy is anticonvulsant can help in developing a pharmacological approach simulating the biochemical effects of the ketogenic diet.

Source : “The Ketogenic diet. Advances in Pediatrics”, 1997.