i am on a keto diet.
[{"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 am on a keto diet"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am familiar with that diet.  It is used primarily to treat children with epilepsy.  Did you have epilepsy as a child?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No I do not. But it was recommended by the doctor"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is a high fat, low carb diet.  the fat is broken down in the liver into Ketone, which replaces the glucose in the blood stream, improving brain function."}, {"role": "user", "content": "How does Ketone improve the brain function"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, normally carbs are converted into sugar, which the brain uses.  But a low carb, high fat diet replaces the glucose with ketone, forcing the brain to use it instead."}, {"role": "user", "content": "When I take sugar my brain is happy. I think that is good"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, but ketone can replace glucose as an energy source.  As long as you are not at risk for clogged arteries, go for the high fat and ketone."}]