I have tried to remain silent on thgis topic. i am invilved in a
support group for children with autism and seizures who are healig
through dietary intervention with the Specific Carbohydrate. Doing
Atkins Low carb makes Ketosis much riskier for kids than adults.
BTW I feed my dog Homemade4Life raw food and she used to have vomitinbg
and diaherria but now hasn't had to go to the vet for nearly two years
except for the annual physical and rabies booster every other year. My
pet insurance would now cover 80% of the costs of an insurable illness.


In article , A2K
wrote:

My dog too suffers from seizures, even when he has rice or dog biscuits or
when he has meat only.
"roxan" wrote in message
...
thanks for the reply, I am looking for something that may help my dog with
seizures.
Roxan
"Klenow" wrote in message
.com...
I was talking to a ketogenic diet researcher recently and asked if there
is
a dog model of the diet. I know it's been tried but this person said
that
dogs don't go into ketosis in the same way that humans do and that their
brain would preferentially use lactate over ketones anyway. He didn't
believe it would work in dogs. There are several labs looking at the
ketogenic diet in animals in order to determine its mechanism. Rats are
often used but I know there is a controversy as to whether there is
really
an effect in rats or if it's an artefact of the data processing.


"roxan" wrote in message
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Do you think this could work for dogs? I have a dog with epilepsy.
Roxan


"Lee B." wrote in message
...
Yeah, but ketogenic diets for kids with epilepsy has generally been
considered on the "fringe" (kinda like low carb diets for weight
lossG). Now that low carb is getting mainstream recognition, it's
probably a good time for JHH to get this information back out to the
public as well as the medical community in hopes that people will
look
at it with less skepticism. At least if they have a new study out
there,
it will turn up in new literature searches.

Lee - an RN who actually learned about ketogenic diets in school!

PS - if anyone hasn't seen it and can find a copy, watch the movie
"First Do No Harm".




http://epilepsyontario.org/client/EO/EOWeb.nsf/web/First+Do+No+Harm+(Movie)

Roger Zoul wrote:

Damn...talk about reinventing the wheel! You'd think these folks
would
find
better things to spend research dollars on. They could start by
doing
a
literature study....








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