What I'm trying to make people and doctors aware of is the potential that seizures are of gut origin so that it can be addressed before damage occurs and healing can begin. Instead, doctors are clueless and can only prescribe anticonvulsants without addressing underlying cause.
And, yes, I do believe lesions and adhesions (scars) of the brain can be caused by the gut.
Doctors do address the underlying cause, very successfully at that.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108023450501
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21838505
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/251449-overview
http://www.neurology.org/content/60/4/538.short
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/75/11/1589.fullhttp://jnnp.bmj.com/content/73/5/486.full
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/136/6/1889.full.pdf
https://www.aesnet.org/sites/default/files/file_attach/Guidelines/Neurology-2003-Engel-538-47.pdf
These are long term randomised human trials, with techniques that have been assessed post market for a decade. I could pull 100, or more of these trials, and I could pull 100 in all the other types of resection, and more on lobectomies. There are meta analyses and knowledge about the likely outcome of each technique for every type of epilepsy, age of epilepsy onset, and the region of the brain that is affected.
Doctors have successfully treated the cause of epileptic seizures (that is, the aetiology of epileptic seizures, since we can't treat the scalpel, stroke, etc that created the seizure focus to begin with) for many years.
You can't make that claim. The efficacy rate of your combined treatments over five years is 0%.
It thus sounds a little odd that you're calling doctors clueless. Lets look at the facts.
Here is the leader board thus far
Long term efficacy
Doctors: up to 70% remission over five years, with up to 6% of patients showing no improvement whatsoever
Keith: 0% success rate over five years.
Evidence
Doctors: Hundreds of controlled randomised human trials of up to five years published in peer reviewed journals
Keith: 20 pages of uncontrolled, un-randomised rat trials lasting up to 3 months.
Knowledge and Experience
Doctors
100 years of collective knowledge, with practices treating 20 human patients daily. Full understanding of physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, diagnostics, surgery gained from med school, post doc etc
Keith: No knowledge of basic physiology.
You don't know enough to make an assessment as to whether doctors are clueless.
So, 65% of epilepsy has no known cause. That's massive.
No, it isn't massive at all. These 35% of
newly diagnosed epilepsy patients know that it was that stroke in 1984, or that surgery in 2001 that caused their epilepsy. There are causes that are less dramatic: severe fevers, accidents that didn't seem to cause any damage at the time, illnesses that didn't instantly induce seizures...Of those 65% who don't have a cause at the time of diagnosis, doctors can later figure out what the cause was. As I said, and as you ignored, doctors later trace the problem back to issues such as genetics. Only
20% of epilepsy cases are cryptogenic. In other words, you have only 20% of epilepsy cases to discuss. All others have an understood, obvious, or known cause. Among that 20%, we have cases where doctors can view the damage and determine what sort of trauma would have caused the lesion/focus/etc. That leaves you, again, with a negligible percentage of epilepsy cases that you might like to hypothesise have their primary origin in the gut. But you're left with one last challenge: most epilepsy cases don't get worse. If you have a primary gut origin, you'd assume that the brain trauma would get worse, or better. Neither happens without medical treatment, and you are left with very, very few epilepsy cases to play with.
http://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Chapter01Neligan.pdf