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This week on Seizing Life® Jim Abrahams, creator of some of the biggest comedy films of all-time, shares his son’s troubling and remarkable epilepsy journey to seizure freedom through the ketogenic diet.
On July 27, the Mayo Clinic’s Russell Wilder, M.D., first uses the term “ketogenic diet” to describe and propose a nutritional treatment for epilepsy that tricks the body into believing it is fasting.
The Ketogenic Diet, or Keto for short, is a way of eating that mimics the effects of fasting. By consuming a diet rich in quality fats, adequate in protein, and low in net carbohydrates (total carbs minus fiber), the body’s metabolism begins to utilize fat as its main source of fuel.
The classic ketogenic diet gained popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, but its presence faded with the availability of more anti-seizure medications, which had fewer lifestyle restrictions. As recently as 25 years ago, the ketogenic diet was rarely used as a treatment for epilepsy. Eric Kossoff
...First Do No Harm is a 1997 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jim Abrahams about a boy whose severe epilepsy, unresponsive to medications with terrible side effects, is controlled by the ketogenic diet. Aspects of the story mirror Abrahams' own experience with his son Charlie.
In 1993, 11 month old Charlie Abrahams developed difficult to control epilepsy. As a last resort, while Charlie was experiencing multiple daily seizures and multiple daily medications, his parents turned to a Ketogenic Diet for help. The diet worked.
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After monotherapy and then endless drug cocktails failed, I started doing my own research and stumbled across the ketogenic diet— a nearly extinct, high-fat diet for kids with intractable epilepsy that is known to help control and often even stop seizures.
