Ketogenic Diet (1921)

Record 028 · Metabolic · 1921

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Ketogenic Diet

Russell Wilder

“Mayo's 1921 epilepsy protocol that made ketosis a prescribed metabolic state.”

Wilder designed a high-fat, low-carb diet to mimic fasting's effect on seizures. Later wellness borrowed the noun; the protocol is a ratio and a clinic.

Opened nutritional ketosis as a medical protocol.

Official site
  • Ketogenic ratios
  • Fasting mimic for seizures
  • Clinical diet protocol

Fat as the default fuel.