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": "assistant", "content": "I've been thinking about starting a keto diet, but I'm not sure if it's worth the potential risks. None of them are severe, per se, but they can be uncomfortable - like constipation."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What are some of the benefits of a keto diet?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it's proven to help with epilepsy in children, but a lot of people use it for general weight loss, too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why else do people use a keto diet?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "People use it to burn fat stored in the body. Because keto diets avoid carbs, the body goes straight to fat to burn."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow. That sounds like it would be useful to a lot of people. Any other drawbacks?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, only social ones - you have to avoid carbs for it to work! So, no bread, beer, etc!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yikes. I don't know if I could do that. But it sounds really intriguing."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know! It would be pretty hard for me to give up beer!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Any other major foods I'd have to give up?"}]