[Ketogenic] Diabetes Drug For Epilepsy?

[PhylisFeinerJohnson]

"Two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists reported they had suppressed epileptic seizures in rats by giving them a glycolytic-inhibitor, inhibiting the brain's ability to turn sugar into excess energy and blocking the expression of seizure-related genes. The discovery was greeted with excitement and hope for a new class of drugs for epilepsy, which afflicts more than 50 million people worldwide..."

To read on, click here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0408132158.htm

[Cint]

Interesting.... I've taken Metformin for my diabetes. I sure wished it would have done something for my damaged hippocampus.

It did nothing for my diabetes, except make my blood sugar sky rocket!