You are probably right. Help us out by explaining it. That is what discussion is about. Have you seen this? https://www.epilepsy.com/article/2017/1/ketogenic-diet-neonates I'm curious what I had wrong. I do not want to be spreading false information, although I am human and make mistakes. During normal development, the human infant is in significant ketosis for at least the first week of life. Ketone uptake and metabolism is upregulated in the both the fetus and neonate, with ketone bodies providing at least 10% of cerebral metabolic energy requirements, as well as being the preferred precursors for the synthesis of fatty acids and cholesterol. At the same time, ketone bodies have been shown to have multiple neuroprotective effects, including being anticonvulsant, decreasing oxidative stress and inflammation, and epigenetically upregulating the production of neurotrophic factors. While ketogenic diets and exogenous ketosis are largely being investigated in the setting of adult brain injury, the adaptation of the neonate to ketosis suggests that developmental brain injury may be the area most suited to the use of ketones for neuroprotection. Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31085911/ John
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