Dr Tro, who has a financial interest in keto, cites multiple studies showing keto helps epilepsy. Here's a list of treatments that help epilepsy that don't have other beneficial aspects on mental health or wellbeing: Surgical and device interventions * Temporal lobectomy * Hemispherectomy * Corpus callosotomy * Responsive neurostimulation * Deep brain stimulation (anterior thalamic nucleus) Anticonvulsants that are neutral-to-harmful for mood and cognition * Phenobarbital (sedation, depression, cognitive blunting, behavioral disinhibition in kids) * Topiramate (cognitive slowing, word-finding problems, depression. The "dopamax" reputation) * Levetiracetam (irritability, aggression, depression. "Keppra rage") * Vigabatrin (depression, psychosis, plus irreversible visual field loss) * Perampanel (black-box warning for hostility, aggression, psychiatric events) * Zonisamide (depression, cognitive impairment) * Phenytoin (cognitive effects, no mood benefit) * Tiagabine (depression, encephalopathy) * Felbamate (anxiety, insomnia, and aplastic anemia/hepatotoxicity for good measure) And, of course, the ketogenic diet itself, which has no positive randomized controlled trials in mental health.

The fight for a higher standard of consumer health and transparency has never been more important. The ones most threatened by a new order are the ones who profited under the old one