... is a way for somebody to make money off of it.
In another post, I detailed the news about a recently-developed drug for partial onset seizures in adults. A big drug company just bought the rights to market this drug for $125 million. And it doesn't even work that well. It reduced the frequency of seizures by 23-35%, and 27% of people who used it in the clinical trial asked to be taken off it because they couldn't stand the side effects.
The thing lacking for the Ketogenic diet is the big marketing push that comes from the deep pockets of a company that stands to make big bucks. Drug companies pay physicians huge amounts of money to talk to their peers about new drugs.
If only there was some essential element to the KD that a company could patent and sell, we'd see much more marketing about it to physicians.
I completely agree with you
Hi Annie,
Thanks for your post, I think you completely hit the nail on the head. This is the problem with so many therapies which are seen as "alternative" because they do not involve medications that pharmaceutical companies can make a fortune off. I truly believe so many medications don't actually cure an illness because the pharmaceutical companies generally have a vested interest in keeping people sick and providing long term drug therapies.... same with weight loss... if everyone lost weight and kept the weight off, the weight loss industry wouldn't make so much money! It's such a shame that more money isn't ploughed into therapies such as the ketogenic diet, a therapy that research shows truly works for many children with epilepsy and is far more effective in many cases than drug therapy.