If you scroll through Instagram or TikTok today, you might be forgiven for thinking the Ketogenic diet was invented by a fitness influencer in 2018 to sell supplements. It is often framed as the latest "fad" in a long line of weight-loss trends. But this isn't a fad. It is a medical intervention with a century of clinical data behind it. We didn't invent this protocol to look good in a swimsuit; we invented it to save children's brains. 1921: The Mimicry of Fasting Since the time of Hippocrates (400 BC), physicians knew that fasting - the complete cessation of food - could miraculously stop epileptic seizures. The problem, of course, is that fasting is not a sustainable long-term strategy. Eventually, you have to eat, and when you did, the seizures returned. In 1921, Dr. Russell Wilder at the Mayo Clinic posed a brilliant biological question: Could we create a diet that mimics the metabolic state of starvation, without actually starving the patient? Dr. Russell W...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.