Keto Diet Pills Reduce Brain Inflammation

A new study by UC San Francisco scientists discovered a key way the ketogenic diet decreases brain inflammation. Now they hope to replicate the mechanism for new treatments to help a range of inflamed brain sicknesses without being on a restrictive high-fat/low-carb diet.

The ketogenic diet is said to increase longevity and improve memory and benefit stroke and brain trauma victims by reducing inflammation. Also, it is a treatment for epilepsy. And some believe the diet improves symptoms of other brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Additionally, the diet is used for weight loss and to reverse diabetes.

However, the diet is very limiting. To be in ketosis you'd have to reduce your daily carbohydrate sugar intake to between 20 to 50g. Fast absorbing high-carb foods like rice and bread and bananas can push your body out of ketosis, once you've managed to get into ketosis. It can take some time for your body to get into ketosis and a month to adapt to using more fats for energy over carbs. That's why some find it very hard to stick with the diet.

Plus, women tend to do better with more carbohydrate sugars in their diet. There are many female health professionals, such as JJ Virgin, that went very low-carb and recommended it only to see weight gain.

So, by developing a medication that causes the identified molecular dance, you could reap the rewards of ketosis without counting carbs and testing for ketones.

To the surprise of the researchers, they only played with one factor that made such a large effect. They were able to restrict glucose sugar metabolism and activated a protein that turns off inflammatory genes. They were able to imitate a ketogenic state in rats and cells in the laboratory.

While the science is promising, it shows two things... firstly, how powerful nutrition's effect on your body is. Secondly, a cause and effect relationship between diet and inflammation rather than an association.