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• Among those dietary regimens is the low-carbohydrate Atkins Diet which has proven successful in suppressing epileptic seizures in a small series of patients.
• The review, published in Epilepsy Currents, explores the benefits of low-carb, high protein, and other restricted dietary therapies for patients with epilepsy.
• The ketogenic diet (KD), a high fat, adequate protein, and low carbohydrate diet, is the most well known of dietary therapies amongst the epilepsy community.
• It was initially devised in 1921 to "mimic the anticonvulsant effects of fasting, which were known to suppress seizures."
• A diet enriched in PUFA has shown to help in brain development and decreases the excitability of nerve cells that can induce seizures.
• As success has been observed with the Atkins diet, people with epilepsy might find this diet to be easier to follow.

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