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David Evans

Independent Health Researcher

Friday, 23 April 2010

The many benefits of a ketogenic diet

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids Volume 70, Issue 3, March 2004, Pages 309-319

Metabolic and Health Implications of Moderate Ketosis and the Ketogenic Diet
Richard L. Veech ,
Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, National Institutes of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, 12501 Washington Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, USA

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WPH-4BM8FVH-C&_user=10&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1307315113&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8ef4972e60062984a01a77d3f769a256

The author concludes the large categories of disease for which a ketogenic diet may have therapeutic effects are:

(1) diseases of substrate insufficiency or insulin resistance,
(2) diseases resulting from free radical damage,
(3) disease resulting from hypoxia.

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