It's worth mentioning that ketogenic diets have also been used to treat dementia and alzheimers. With the proposed mechanism being a metabolic insufficiency in

It's worth mentioning that ketogenic diets have also been used to treat dementia and alzheimers. With the proposed mechanism being a metabolic insufficiency in the brain caused by impaired glucose transport across the blood-brain barrier. Ketones are transported via a different mechanism, which appears to be unaffected. There is a common trend of diets which simultaneously produce ketones, and starve bacteria/fungi being used to treat disease. It's difficult to know whether it's the microbial mechanism or the metabolic mechanism which is responsible for the effect.