A Korean Case: A Plant-Based Ketogenic Diet Improving Autism

Dr. Lee "Today is our first session on disease healing through the ketogenic diet. I'd like to begin with autism — partly because Zoe shared that her close friend's child has it. As it happens, I've also had personal experience with the diet's effects on autism in a child. There was a parent who tried a plant-based ketogenic diet for one month. After hearing my lecture, she experimentally provided plant-based ketogenic meals to a 10-year-old girl. Autism is about three times more common in boys than girls, and at age 10 it's considered hard to improve. But after starting the diet, the 10-year-old slowly began making eye contact and responding when her parents spoke to her.

For example, while putting her pants on her the mother muttered to herself, 'It would be nice if you could fasten your buttons,' and the child suddenly started fastening them on her own. Another time the father took her to an amusement park. The girl had always insisted on the same route. After the diet, she went on a different route. The father, in good spirits, said aloud to himself, 'Let's come again next time,' and the child suddenly asked, 'Daddy, are you not going to work?' Startled, the father answered, 'Ah, when Daddy's not working — on a holiday — let's come.'

The mother sent me a brief one-month diary. I found it deeply moving and asked permission to share it on YouTube under a pseudonym for the child, for the benefit of others. She agreed and I posted it."