Document Type
Article
Department
Neuroscience
Publication Date
8-2013
Abstract
Ketogenic diets are well established as a successful anticonvulsant therapy. Based on overlap between mechanisms postulated to underlie pain and inflammation, and mechanisms postulated to underlie therapeutic effects of ketogenic diets, recent studies have explored the ability for ketogenic diets to reduce pain. Here we review clinical and basic research thus far exploring the impact of a ketogenic diet on thermal pain, inflammation, and neuropathic pain.
Comments
Authors' post-print. Published as Susan A. Masino, David N. Ruskin. “Ketogenic Diets and Pain.” Journal of Child Neurology 28, no. 8 (August 2013): 993-1001
Available at http://jcn.sagepub.com/content/28/8/993