i eat a lot of meat.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fueling brain-function. However, if there is little carbohydrate in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, a state known as ketosis, leads to a reduction in the frequency of epileptic seizures. Almost half of children, and young people, with epilepsy who have tried some form of this diet saw the number of seizures drop by at least half, and the effect persists even after discontinuing the diet. There is some evidence that adults with epilepsy may benefit from the diet, and that a less strict regimen, such as a modified Atkins diet, is similarly effective. The most common adverse effect is constipation, affecting about 30% of patients\u2014this was due to fluid restriction, which was once a feature of the diet, but this led to increased risk of kidney stones, and is no longer considered beneficial.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I like the Ketogenic diet, I eat a lot of meat."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's interesting. Are you allowed fruit on that diet?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You bet! Rhubarb is a main one which I have a huge patch of. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's interesting. I understand it causes your body to burn stored fat faster."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, other diets actually try to burn carbs instead of actual fat. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do you have a hard time eliminating carbs?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Most carbs, no. I do have a weakness for potatoes and pop but try to limit that as a cheat \"treat\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I heard that this diet can be good for people with epilepsy."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's what I have read. It appears maybe the higher fat diet helps reduce seizures since your brain feeds on fat to function."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I believe that the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes it does! It was nice chatting with you. "}]