6/13/2020

Levi started having seizures at just 2.5 years old. After traditional treatments of phenobarbital and CBD weren’t working to stop the seizures, Levi’s owner reached out for help designing a balanced Raw Ketogenic diet. After acclimating to the Balanced Raw Ketogenic diet, Levi’s seizures have since stopped. Time will tell if Levi has any more episodes, but as of right now Levi’s owner is optimistic that we’ve been able to hold them at bay with the diet.  As I write this post, Levi is at about 9 weeks without having any seizures.
I will keep this page updated with Levi’s progress as time goes on!

what Levi’s owner has to say :
“My Levi started having seizures. He’s an 8 lb Japanese Chin cross and he is my rally obedience star. He loves to train. But at just about 2.5 years of age he had his first seizure. then 6 months later, another, quite long. Then they started coming every 2 months …then monthly. We put him on phenobarbital ( regular vet) plus CBD oil (holistic vet) … back to 2 months for another half year. and then a series in November and December of 2019. In January of 2020, he went onto the ketopet diet and things calmed down a bit… I got him onto a diet designed by Mike at KetopoweredK9 by the first week of February. He had 2 seizures in March… another in April… and the he went 8 weeks without a seizure. I am thinking that it took some time for the keto process to affect whatever causes his seizures, but the long times between the last 2 seizures have me hopeful that we have at least arrested the increasing frequency of seizures.
Thank you for your help and for designing that diet for him”

My thoughts: Although Levi started on a basic unbalanced version of a ketogenic diet back in January and still had some episodes, I would account this to the fact that the Keto diet he was started on back then was too low of a ratio at just 1:1, After Levi’s owner contacted me to get a properly balanced Raw Ketogenic meal plan together, we got a plan going to increase the ketogenic ratio to a higher fat 2:1 ratio and after Levi had time to acclimate to that new diet is when we began to see the changes and subsequently began to see the seizures stop.  This is a perfect example of how not all ketogenic diets are the same, how they can be specific to the ailment. And a great example of an owners perseverance to keep on trying

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