Health Benefits and Potential Risks of the Ketogenic Diet as a Nutritional Strategy
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 262
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ketogenic dietary therapies; clinical nutrition; multiple sclerosis; nutrition; sport nutrition
Interests: physical activity; body composition; ketogenic dietary; eating disorders; clinical nutrition; dietetics; human nutrition, nutrition assessment; nutritional education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to present this new Special Issue on “Health Benefits and Potential Risks of the Ketogenic Diet as a Nutritional Strategy”. Ketogenic dietary therapies (KDTs) are high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapies, inducing ketosis. KDTs are a well-established treatment for drug resistant epilepsy (DRE) and GLUT1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1-DS), while several other clinical applications in other neurological diseases are still under investigation. Recently, KD has also been widely used and studied for metabolic-endocrine disease (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes, etc), with different mechanisms of action and goals. As all the dietary therapies, KDTs can have health benefits (e.g., seizure/symptoms control, cognitive improvements, reduced inflammation, metabolic control) as well as potential risks, including short-term GI disturbances or long-term detrimental effect on bone health, dyslipidemiae or nutrition deficiencies, etc. This SI seeks for original papers and reviews (including meta-analysis and umbrella-reviews), case reports related to KDTs use as a nutritional strategy giving new insights to improve KDT knowledge and clinical practice.
Dr. Monica Guglielmetti
Prof. Dr. Anna Tagliabue
Dr. Elles J.T.M. Van der Louw
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ketogenic dietary therapies
- neurological diseases
- epilepsy
- GLUT1 deficiency syndrome
- metabolic-endocrine diseases
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