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Ketogenic diets were pioneered in the field of epilepsy in 1921. In spite of a century of evidence of efficacy for seizure disorders, along with decades of rigorous scientific research demonstrating that mental illness can arise from metabolic impairments affecting the brain, ketogenic diets were not studied clinically outside the epilepsy field after a small pilot trial in 1965.

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