OUR STORY WITH THE MODIFIED ATKINS DIET FOR SEIZURES
My name is Michael Koski. My wife Tammy and I live in Colorado, United States with our four children. We consider it a privilege to have been able to put together and maintain this website. We hope this will be a resource that positively impacts your quality of life and your family’s, just as the MAD for Seizures has done for us.
| Our oldest child Brooklyn, born in 1997, had absence seizures since she was two years old. We tried six different AED’s (antiepileptic drugs) with no positive impact. We found Dr. Eric Kossoff in Baltimore, Maryland at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and commenced the MAD for Seizures in August, 2004. What a difference it has made to our lives! Brooklyn is now seizure and medicine free! Of course, plenty of work and self-education had to be done to incorporate the diet into our daily lives, but it has been worth it. It is our hope that this website will shorten the learning curve for families that are using this dietary approach to managing epilepsy. |
WE’VE WRITTEN AN EBOOK TO ASSIST YOU
Watching your loved one have seizures – or having them yourself can be a very emotionally difficult thing to do. Our daughter struggled with over 100 seizures every day – even while heavily medicated (and we were scared of the medicine we were giving her). We felt helpless. We took it personal. We tried everything we could find.
In a short period of time, the Modified Atkins Diet allowed our daughter to go off all her medication – and reduced her seizures to just 15 a day. Now, a couple years later, she is seizure and medicine free. We sincerely hope our experience will help you.
The ebook is written in story format and details our experience with the Modified Atkins Diet for Seizures. It has been downloaded by hundreds of families, doctors and nutritionists around the world. It is not a “Do – It – Yourself – Guide”, as we are not doctors and we strongly advise you observe this protocol under the direction of your doctor.
This story will dramatically shorten your learning curve. We spent many hours online, at the grocery store and on the phone with our doctors trying to figure out the answers to the worries you will find in our story. This book is exactly what we wish we would have had when we started out!
my 11 grandson Joseph yesterday enter into Ketosis yesterday March 15,2020. He has Absence Seizures that is not responding to medicines .. Hope this diet works…
I hope he has good results too! Please keep us posted. If you haven’t joined our facebook group yet, please do.
i was born with epilepsy then for a few years i got to live seiure free not long about 5 years at the most then my family was in a bad car accident i protected my youngest brother at the time he was only 2 from getting hurt i took a hit to the head i had a head concussin a cut on my head 3 steaples and 15 stiches on my left arm all that brought back my epilepsy and seizues i was in 7th gradeat the time my mom was getting calls saying i was acting out in class once my mom seen it happen i have been on 7 different meds i have always been small in weight not over 130 or 150 but when i was put on some of these meds i gain weight i do have a weakness for soda but i love my veggies and fruites i clean house like crazy i’m always on the move i collect dolls to relax and reroot them i have taken some bad falls why having seizures
Hi, thank you for sharing your story. I’m so sorry that a car accident caused you seizures to return! I hope that some of the information on this website can help you to manage them.
I’m so sorry to hear this I’ve only been seizure free for 2 weeks at a time while being fully medicated. My seizures happen more at night but nothing ever shows up on the EEG so they say that it’s Psychogenic Non Epileptic Seizures during my 3rd Video EEG recently I had a 20 minute long seizure and was almost intubated and was still seizing after being given 4mg of Ativan in my IV.
I just came across thing, and I can’t thank you enough for giving me hope about life generally. I have both MS and seizures, and just take keppra for seizures even though it is a killer with its mood swings, depressive episodes, etc. I have been like that ever since I was 13. I had a tough childhood, but now at the age of 35, I am looking forward to heal the natural way. I started to read more about ancient medicine and hope I can land somewhere, some way..
We wish you success in trying options outside of medications. Everyone responds differently so we recommend documenting things and making gentle adjustments. If you would like more input and ideas, we have a facebook page to connect people. https://www.facebook.com/groups/353691905370250/