Di Lorenzo, Cherubino and Currà, Antonio and Sirianni, Giulio and Coppola, Gianluca and Bracaglia, Martina and Cardillo, Alessandra and De Nardis, Lorenzo and Pierelli, Francesco (2013) Diet transiently improves migraine in two twin sisters: possible role of ketogenesis? Functional Neurology, 28 (4). pp. 305-308. ISSN 1971-3274
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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 low-carbohydrate, 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 timelock between ketogenesis and migraine improvement provides some insight into how ketones act to improve migraine.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ketogenic diet, migraine, prophylaxis, weight loss |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2015 13:00 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2015 13:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/10975 |
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