November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. The Epilepsy Foundation will tell you that one out of 26 people in the United States will develop the disease at some point during their lifetime.
covering the impeachment trial of then President Donald Trump. At our home about a mile away, our 3-year-old daughter, Kyla, fell off her chair while having breakfast and began convulsing on the floor. My wife called 911 and then me. As I was rushing home, I watched a video feed from our security camera as paramedics went through the front door of our house. What followed was a journey my family could have never imagined.
Each day we felt as if we were losing a bit of our daughter. When she wasn’t in a stupor or seizing, she showed flashes of intense anger. Kyla began to lose the abilities to speak or dress herself. She was suffering, and we were distraught. For kids like Kyla, that means that 90 percent of all calories must come from fat. It is well beyond the now-popular keto diet that many healthy people follow to lose weight. Kyla would only be able to consume trace amounts of carbohydrates, and just enough protein to sustain growth. Her medical team, including a dietician, would keep tabs on her progress.
Our kitchen became our pharmacy. We began to weigh everything Kyla ate. We followed special recipes using ingredients like almond flour, pili nuts, MCT oil and heavy cream. We poured over calculations, tracking every bite on a spreadsheet. Not a single gram of food would escape our attention. And as the weeks passed, Kyla began to improve. The seizures became less intense, less frequent. One day, about five months after starting the diet, the seizures stopped. Entirely.
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