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Cherubino Di Lorenzo, Antonio Currà, Giulio Sirianni, Gianluca Coppola, Martina Bracaglia, Alessandra Cardillo, Lorenzo De Nardis, Francesco Pierelli.
Abstract
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet long used to treat refractory epilepsy; ketogenesis (ketone body formation) is a physiological phenomenon also observed in patients following lowcarbohydrate, low-calorie diets prescribed for rapid weight loss. We report the case of a pair of twin sisters, whose high-frequency migraine improved during a ketogenic diet they followed in order to lose weight. The observed time-lock between ketogenesis and migraine improvement provides some insight into how ketones act to improve migraine.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24598400 PMCID: PMC3951260 DOI: 10.11138/FNeur/2013.28.4.305
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Funct Neurol ISSN: 0393-5264