The theory is that since some epilepsy medications (like Depakote) help with bipolar, then maybe this other treatment - the ketogenic diet which was widely used before anti-seizure meds were available - might also help.

I did suggest the diet to one woman who I met on the web somewhere and gave her the email of the researcher in Kentucky who was interested. Last I heard she was using the diet and it was helping. This was several years ago.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...?dopt=Abstract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatme...Ketogenic_diet

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogsp...-disorder.html

Anyway if you're thinking you have some kind of seizure disorder, it's worth looking into. Usually when I bring it up, people kind of get freaked out, because the diet is so high in fat. I had a discussion with some women on the NAMI bipolar forum a few years ago, and they were telling me how dangerous the diet sounded. And I'm thinking, "Ok, you ladies are each taking like 3 to 7 different psychotropic medications, and you're worried about a little fat in your diet?"

One of the things that's so tantalizing to me is that when this diet works for kids, they can usually go off it after two years. The diet is not just a treatment; it's a cure.

This little boy was seizing up to 100 times a day, and this diet cured him: