A very informative conversation between a researcher and a practicing clinician.
Dr. Matthew Phillips is a clinical and research neurologist and the director of neurology at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand. His foremost passion is to explore the potential feasibility, safety, and efficacy of metabolic strategies, particularly fasting and ketogenic diets, in creating alternate metabolic states that may benefit people with a variety of neurological disorders. His team conducted the world’s first randomized trials involving a ketogenic diet in people with both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the first published application of a fasting and ketogenic diet protocol in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. He is currently conducting a clinical trial in glioblastoma, which combines standard treatments with the most intensive fasting and ketogenic diet protocol ever applied to a group of patients with advanced cancer.
the paper they talk about https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35656107/
Is dr Matt Phillips the one producing all those low carb papers? Motor neuron disease, MS, and the rest?
And yes he is that person, he talks about it about 10 mins in
One thing I like about his studies is they’re not keto vs. standard diet, it’s keto vs dietician designed perfect low fat diet
So everyone does better, and the keto people do best
Not all of them, some of them, for humans. He has a active study going on in NZ with glioblastoma patients using a aggressive ketogenic and fasting protocol.