The ketogenic diet, or ketogenic diet, is a very low carbohydrate diet that is balanced with a fat boost. It was developed after it was observed that fasting and ketosis sometimes make severe epilepsies go away.

Metabolized fat creates a state of nutritional ketosis.

Used since 1921 for the treatment of epilepsy, this diet now finds other applications:

as an adjuvant treatment in the fight against cancer, associated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, or as a therapy associated with metabolic treatment; as part of weight loss diets (as opposed to a diet based on whole foods of plant origin ). as a preferred mode of nutrition for certain categories of athletes looking in particular for better endurance.