High-fat diet may restore cognitive function lost in brain injury – Israeli study - The Times of Israel

The ketogenic diet is already used to help some epileptic children.

They found that more than 50 percent of the cognitive function lost by brain-injured mice was restored after the mice were on the ketogenic diet for two months, while in a control group of brain-injured mice on a regular diet, cognitive function didn’t improve.

“The important thing here is that we have identified a diet that can seemingly help restore cognitive ability after brain injury, and having completed the study on mice, are moving forward to explore the same approach to help brain-injured humans,” research director Prof.

“In our study, the benefits of the diet weren’t evident only from cognitive ability but also from biochemical markers among mice that ate the ketogenic diet,” he noted.

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