
2-Deoxy-D-glucose
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Oct 9, 2026
100 Years of Keto… So Why Don’t More Doctors Use It? | Dr Eric Kossoff
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14:09Eric KossoffGUEST
There was a lot of discussion about, like, should we call these, like, metabolism-based therapies, right? But, like, it gets to sort of like, are these still a diet therapy? Are you still changing your diet? And, and you are, okay? You know, there are other therapies that are, like, targeting metabolism, really looking at the ketogenic diet mechanistically.
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14:30Eric KossoffGUEST
So ketone esters, 2DG.
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14:33Eric KossoffGUEST
There's a lot of interesting therapies that are based on the ketogenic diet but are not changing your diet, if that makes sense.
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14:40Eric KossoffGUEST
So as a field, we, we actually have been back and forth for a few years but decided for many reasons, also just for parent recognition and patient recognition, there is some appeal to families, like you were saying, right? Like, they like the idea that they can change their diet to help their own seizures, right? And so for that reason, along with several others, we've decided at least, at least for now, to keep calling these ketogenic diet therapies as opposed to metabolism therapies.