[ExI] Ketogenic diet to replace dialysis?

Max More max at maxmore.com
Thu Apr 21 18:34:41 UTC 2011


Interesting:

A type of low-carb, high-fat diet that's typically used to manage
seizures for children with epilepsy could reverse kidney disease in
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, a new animal study suggests.

If successful in humans, the so-called ketogenic diet could have the
potential to replace dialysis...

http://www.livescience.com/13817-ketogenic-diet-reverses-mice-kidney-disease.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

-- Max



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