[throwawaycities]

> We've known for a hundred years that it can be effective at treating epilepsy…

And for at least 2,000 years before that it was known that fasting effectively treated epilepsy, and the keto diet was developed in a clinical to mimic fasting to treat children with epilepsy.

I don’t think there is any particular stigma about keto, rather diet/food vis-a-via health is just a flamewar topic in and of itself. Even the word “diet” itself has a stigma, where diet is supposed to just generally mean the food we consume, but it’s taken on the modern definition of an attempt to lose weight.

If you ever want to watch the keto stigma in real-time, mention how eating keto can prevent 100% of type 2 diabetes and in many cases strict adherence to keto can reverse type 2 diabetes.