Tag: Fasting therapy

Developed by Dr. Russell Wilder at the Mayo Clinic around 1921, the original ketogenic diet in the 1920s was not a mainstream weight-loss tool but a highly specialized, medical intervention to treat epilepsy.

In 1921, Dr. Russell Wilder of the Mayo Clinic coined the term and introduced the ketogenic diet for the treatment of epilepsy. This innovative dietary therapy was created to mimic the metabolic effects of therapeutic fasting, which had long been observed to reduce seizure frequency.