SA. Masino and DN. Ruskin (2013). Ketogenic diets and pain. Journal of child neurology, 28(8), 993-1001. https://doi.org/10.1177/0883073813487595

PubMed 23680946

[Abstract]
Ketogenic diets are well established as a successful anticonvulsant therapy. Based on overlap between mechanisms postulated to underlie pain and inflammation, and mechanisms postulated to underlie therapeutic effects of ketogenic diets, recent studies have explored the ability for ketogenic diets to reduce pain. Here we review clinical and basic research thus far exploring the impact of a ketogenic diet on thermal pain, inflammation, and neuropathic pain.