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": "Hi, I am on a ketogenic diet, have you ever heard of this type of diet?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have! I heard it forces the body to burn fat instead of carbs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is correct, primarily this diet is used to treat epilepsy in children but my doctor recommended it to me because of my medical condition."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ketone bodies pass into the brain as an energy source for it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is interesting, this diet was originally developed to replace fasting as a treatment for epilepsy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I did not know that. Ketosis is a result of the diet and cuts down on epileptic events."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I have also heard that the diet has had good results in reducing seizures. The Ketogenic diet is considered a medical nutrition therapy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, it is wonderful for cutting down on seizures and epilepsy and those events."}]