Here’s what I know about food and epilepsy.  Diet -not drugs- completely cured my niece.

I witnessed the whole thing go down over several years.  My five-year-old niece suffered several devastating seizures which caused my brother and his wife to seek help.  The only remedy doctors prescribed was drugs.  These drugs, they were told, would never cure my niece, they would only control the seizures with the faint hope that the inevitable onset of retardation may not occur.  Luckily, my brother and his wife were informed about the Ketogenic diet.

For anybody out there who is struggling with this issue, I can’t tell you how to do the diet, I can only tell you that the diet works.  But, it’s not easy to follow.  You have to have 100% commitment.  I watched my brother travel around for years with a food scale and a hungry daughter, just hoping and praying that this diet, consisting mostly of fat, would prove the best thing for his beloved daughter.  It did, she is now a perfectly healthy, thriving college student who can eat whatever she wants and remains drug and seizure free.  Another young girl who was diagnosed with epilepsy at the same time as my niece wasn’t so fortunate.  Her parents refused to put her on the diet and instead chose to follow the doctors orders.  She is now in a wheel chair, reduced to becoming a  drooling, mentally ill adult.

Witnessing that experience changed my life.  I’m now inclined to always look beyond the doctors prescription and take matters into my own hands.  I’ve been lucky to have only had minor ailments so far in life, but I have to admit that I have cured them with diet, exercise and life style changes as opposed to medicine.