The results obtained so far from applying the normocaloric ketogenic diet (without weight loss) to the treatment of several neurological diseases seem to be particularly interesting for the recovery of cognitive functions.
There are randomized controlled studies correlating the introduction of the ketogenic diet with an improvement in verbal receptive vocabulary and reaction time in children affected by epilepsy, as well as an improvement in attention and memory in patients affected by multiple sclerosis.
Dietary treatment for weight loss in obese or overweight patients by means of a very low calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD) has no contraindication for driving transport vehicles.
What are the effects of the ketogenic diet?
In Spain, more than 750,000 patients have used the method without finding in our 17-year-old records any type of claim for traffic accidents linked to the simultaneous use of this type of diets.
According to numerous studies published worldwide, there is sufficient evidence that these diets (ketogenic diets) do not generate any type of adverse side effects at a cognitive level to justify the recommendation to prohibit driving during the use of the same as a protocol.
On the contrary, we can affirm that patients who have resorted to the ketogenic diet have presented a more activated state of mental attention due to the ketogenic effect of the same (presence of ketone bodies at brain level) which consequently reduces the risk of distractions, and improves the reception of cerebral visuo-spatial information while driving.