The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, very low-carbohydrate diet that aims to shift the body’s metabolism into a state called ketosis (this is how the diet derives its name).

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of Baqsimi (glucagon) nasal powder to include the treatment of severe hypoglycemia in patients aged 1 year and older with diabetes.

Objective: To assess the anti-seizure efficacy and safety of a C10-enriched medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) ketogenic diet (KD) compared with the classic ... Study design and patient flow chart: ...

Also, corticosteroids administered in diabetic pregnancies for fetal lung maturation can worsen hyperglycemia and insulin resistance resulting in ketosis [17 ... Figure 2. PRISMA flowchart of the ...

However, if glucose levels plunge too low—from taking too much insulin or not eating enough sugar—people can experience hypoglycemia, which can lead to dizziness, cognitive impairment ...

Scientists have discovered a way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or ketogenic, diet and giving them cancer therapy. A study of fasting and the ketogenic diet ...

Ketotic hypoglycemia refers to low blood sugar levels with high levels of ketones. It commonly occurs in toddlers, often when they have not eaten over a long period of time or when they are ill.

Ketosis is a process that happens when your body doesn't have enough carbohydrates to burn for energy. Instead, it burns fat and makes things called ketones, which it can use for fuel. Ketosis is ...

As a medical student working in an obesity clinic, she saw a patient with treatment-resistant schizophrenia whose auditory hallucinations quieted on a ketogenic diet. That prompted her to dig into ...

It’s official: The ketogenic diet proved to be effective at controlling polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in the first randomized controlled clinical trial of ketogenic metabolic therapy for PKD. “I’m ...

Hypoglycemia is a condition where your blood sugar drops too low. Hypoketotic hypoglycemia occurs when you have low blood sugar due to the body’s inability to break down fats for energy ...