The ketogenic diet is a calculated, medically managed diet designed to imitate fasting over a long period of time.

• When on the Ketogenic diet, a simulated ‘fasting state’ is achieved by switching the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates.
• This diet is available as a treatment option for children with difficult-to-control epilepsy and some neuro-metabolic disorders.
• The idea of using diet to help manage seizures is not new. Physicians in ancient Greece treated epilepsy by altering the patient’s diet.

Learn more in the Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy factsheet.