Modified Atkins Diet for adults, Neha Kaul, APD
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects more than 60 million people worldwide, including 1-3% of the Australian population. Dietary therapy, particularly the MAD, is an effective and accepted treatment for adult drug-resistant epilepsy.
Neha is a senior dietitian at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is also a PhD candidate investigating the efficacy of dietary therapies including the MAD, in the treatment of adult epilepsy. This webinar explains the finer points of the MAD for adults:
- Epilepsy - causes, comorbidities, symptoms, treatments
- Outline of Dietary therapies
- Benefits, fat, CHO, protein requirements
- Indications for use – drug resistance, side effects from medication, surgical considerations, contraindications
- Benefits over ketogenic diets (increased client compliance!)
- Why it works - hormonal factors, fatty acid and ketone metabolism, neural stability, gut microbiota and brain-gut axis
- Suitable clients, implementation, challenges, case studies
- Monitoring – GIT symptoms, seizure diary, weight, urine ketones, biochemistry
- Reasons for cessation – efficacy, tolerance, compliance, side effects, other treatment plans
- Resources
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