Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet can be A Chemotherapy Alternative

Researchers are working hard to find new molecules for cancer treatment and recently they have become interested in high fat and low carb ketogenic diet. The promising findings of this research have inspired researchers to prepare ketone containing drugs.

A ketogenic diet contains high fat and low carb that produces ketone bodies during the process of metabolism. Clinical use of this diet was seen at the John Hopkins Hospital for the first time where some children with seizure disorders resistant to conventional anti-epileptic drugs demonstrated a great response to ketogenic diet.

As it is difficult to follow the ketogenic diet strictly, research …read more