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Interestingly enough, a low carbohydrate (often including a switch to artificial sweeteners) is a well-established treatment for childhood epilepsy.
The validity low carb diets is generally orthogonal to artificial sweeteners and probably should not be conflated.
I wasn't attempting to disprove or contribute to his claims. Just to point out an interesting intersection of diet and seizures.
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> Methadone is really harmful. > So heroin is back in? Evidently, both are bad and it doesn't seem to be immediately clear whether real sugar or artificial is more harmful. But we do know for a fact that excess carbohydrate intake causes numerous serious health problems (heart problems, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, etc).
Which is depressing because carbohydrates are so tasty. It's all I can do to resist them.
Like steak.
And bacon.
And cheese.
I didn't question it at the time as I was desperately in need of getting the situation fixed. Turned out the Ciphro I had taken; as last resort type medicine; had killed all the good bacteria and such in my intestinal tract letting something else move in. Another series of drugs later and that was cleared up but he still left me with a list of items to curtail for the next six months until all tests came clean and one was artificial sweeteners.
Woah. I assume someone is now doing research on introducing Bacteroidetes into the guts of obese people?
Aspartame (Nutrasweet) is pretty controversial in how it got approved by the FDA. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/donald-rumsfeld-... When I was 8 years old, I started having grand mal seizures and my parents noted a strong correlation between drinking a Diet Coke and having a seizure. When they eliminated it from my diet, my seizures declined. Fortunately I stopped having seizures around 12 years of…
Interestingly enough, a low carbohydrate (often including a switch to artificial sweeteners) is a well-established treatment for childhood epilepsy.
Many people with epilepsy and migraines have discovered different food triggers. In my case Aspartame was the leading trigger. Anyone who has seizures should seek out and eliminate potential triggers to see if it helps. I suppose a high carb diet could be a trigger for someone... I didn't have a high carb diet... but I know eliminating aspartame helped me.
I am still amazed how Donald Rumsfeld was able to influence its approval by the FDA.
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I'm not sure that stevia is an "artificial" sweetener.
Your body doesn't care whether something was made by humans or whether it was made by nature. It only cares about the particularities of the molecules involved.
So those who are intolerant to glucose tend to avoid glucose? That hardly seems surprising.
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Interestingly enough, a low carbohydrate (often including a switch to artificial sweeteners) is a well-established treatment for childhood epilepsy.
Really? Can you point to a source? Many people with epilepsy and migraines have discovered different food triggers. In my case Aspartame was the leading trigger. Anyone who has seizures should seek out and eliminate potential triggers to see if it helps. I suppose a high carb diet could be a trigger for someone... I didn't have a high carb diet... but I know eliminating aspartame helped me. I am still amazed how Dona…
Some to get you started:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898565/
http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epilepsy...
http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-upd...
Does anyone have any thoughts how Xylitol or Erythritol might fare under a study like this? They're currently my go to sweeteners. I'm not sure why they're not more popular.
Erythritol seems like the best sweetner though with minimal side effects under 50mg per day.