Quoted: The success of the pediatric diet seems to have made it easier for keto scientists to get money for this basic research. ?Before Helen?s study, we all had a clear sense that keto worked,? says Carl Stafstrom, the head of pediatric neurology at the University of Wisconsin, ?but we couldn?t say in a grant proposal that the diet has been proven to be effective. Now we can.? There are recently financed studies, for example, exploring why the body resists ketosis and exploring compounds that might trigger the antiepileptic mechanism.
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