Precision Ketogenic Therapy (PKT) is today’s precision medicine approach to the use of food as medicine. Advances in food science, analytical chemistry, computer science, and medicine allow us to provide food as medicine that meets today’s precision medicine criteria.
People receiving PKT differ widely in nutritional needs, food preferences, and pathologies. During treatment, symptoms change, nutritional needs change, and the individual’s feeding abilities may change. The initial PKT Diet Prescription needs to be carefully personalized and continuously adapted to the individual’s changing needs.
Although the symptoms that cause a person to consider PKT are usually seizures, the person is often experiencing other symptoms that may be due to the disease or side effects of treatment for the disease. PKT is the use of nutrients to change metabolism in all of the body. Thus, a holistic approach to monitoring the outcome of PKT is needed to both optimize and personalize it
This approach uses food as a treatment. Just like with medicine where there are multiple kinds of prescriptions to treat different people with the same symptoms, there should be different food ratios for each patient.
The precision allows for us to calculate the exact amount of fats to proteins to carbohydrates that leads to the best outcome for our patients. In some cases, this has allowed patients to reduce the medications they were on and reduced symptoms for those who could not take medication.
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