Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

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I want to give you some really good information to hopefully end seizures, okay? If you have them,

where's the seizure? It's an uncontrollable shaking motion of either your whole body or one part of

your body with different levels of unconsciousness. So with some people you can go completely unconscious,

other people you can go partially unconscious. And the seizure is in a single episode of that event

and epilepsy is a condition where you have multiple or ongoing seizures. Now they're triggered

by various things, fever, head injury, infection in the brain, choking alcohol or drug withdrawal,

extreme low blood sugar can trigger them, certain drugs and toxins can trigger them. And by the

way, as a side note, since we're talking about toxicity in relationship to triggering a seizure,

B6 is an effective remedy to help lower the toxicity. And then of course you have various

types of stresses or even high blood pressure that can trigger a seizure event. And there's many

theories in what causes a seizure, but typically it's the hyper excitability of a nerve. And if you

look up seizure and Wikipedia, you'll have a lot of great information, all describing what it is

and various medications that you can use, unfortunately with a lot of side effects. And then when

you get to the thing called the ketogenic diet, you'll see that there's low quality evidence to

show that the ketogenic diet is effective. But you can use the ketogenic diet for a very specific type

of epilepsy, which is called a drug resistant epilepsy. So if the drugs don't work, then you can

use the ketogenic diet. I found that very interesting. In fact, it's a great marketing strategy

to position the ketogenic diet as some side-ping that you might want to try if the drugs don't work

first. And the truth is that there's hardcore data that shows that the ketogenic diet

is very effective and at least eliminating seizures by a factor of 50 to 70 percent. And it's used

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