19 Sep 2025 Nutrition Evidence Alert – September 2025 – The Ketogenic Diet: What Science Says about Metabolising Fat for Fuel
From our Expert Review Panel
Very-low-calorie ketogenic diet vs hypocaloric balanced diet in the prevention of high-frequency episodic migraine: the EMIKETO randomized, controlled trial in The Journal of Nutrition and Healthy Ageing. 2024. With Expert Review from Karin Elgar
Effects of a Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition in Healthy, Young, Normal-Weight Women: A Randomized Controlled Feeding Trial in Nutrients. 2024. With Expert Review from Chloe Steele
Ketogenic Diet Induced Shifts in the Gut Microbiome Associate with Changes to Inflammatory Cytokines and Brain-Related miRNAs in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Nutrients. 2024. With Expert Review from Wilma Kirsten
We are delighted to bring you the first NED Alert since the major upgrade, this month focusing on the science behind the ketogenic diet. Check out the expert reviews above and the reference list of articles below.
The next edition of the NED Journal will focus on Ketogenic Diets and the many different ways it is being tested in the research. Watch out too for our next NED article, on neurodivergence.
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Check out this new NED Infobite on the impacts of the ketogenic diet. With 4 new research articles examining how the ketogenic diet influences cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease, improves insulin sensitivity and glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes, modulates inflammation relative to the Mediterranean diet in obesity and psoriasis, and alters body composition and strength.
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Ketogenic diet but not free-sugar restriction alters glucose tolerance, lipid metabolism, peripheral tissue phenotype, and gut microbiome: RCT in Cell Reports Medicine. 2024.
The effect of the ketogenic diet on resistance training load management: a repeated-measures clinical trial in trained participants in Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. 2024.
A randomized feasibility trial of medium chain triglyceride-supplemented ketogenic diet in people with Parkinson’s disease in BMC Neurology. 2024.
A 3-Week Ketogenic Diet Increases Skeletal Muscle Insulin Sensitivity in Individuals With Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial in Diabetes. 2024.
Addressing Pain Using a Mediterranean Ketogenic Nutrition Program in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Journal of pain research. 2024.
Effects of Different Exercises Combined with Different Dietary Interventions on Body Composition: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis in Nutrients. 2024.
Effect of weight-maintaining ketogenic diet on glycemic control and insulin sensitivity in obese T2D subjects in BMJ open diabetes research & care. 2024.
Asian Low-Carbohydrate Diet with Increased Whole Egg Consumption Improves Metabolic Outcomes in Metabolic Syndrome: A 52-Week Intervention Study in The Journal of nutrition. 2024.
Effects of ketogenic diet on weight loss parameters among obese or overweight patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trails in Food & nutrition research. 2024.
The effects of the ketogenic diet for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of recent studies in Diabetes & metabolic syndrome. 2023.
Very-low-calorie ketogenic diet vs hypocaloric balanced diet in the prevention of high-frequency episodic migraine: the EMIKETO randomized, controlled trial in Journal of translational medicine. 2023.
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