Johannes J. van der Wiel
Ketocloud and Ketosoft, research and development organisation
Title: Ketogenic Diet An engineer’s observation of the prescription, administering and maintaining of the Ketogenic Diet and possible solutions to obstacles experienced by many users.
Biography
Biography: Johannes J. van der Wiel
Abstract
The Ketogenic Diet is an old therapy used to treat patients with epilepsy. This therapy has been accepted as one of the most effective, least invasive and with less side effects than many other treatments. This therapy is based on creating the state of ketosis by manipulating the intake of specific nutrients without the use of pharmaceuticals.
It was known that food had an effect on epilepsy at the time of Hippocrates of Cos, evidenced by his writing on the “sacred disease”. At the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs there was likely knowledge of a connection between food and epilepsy.
Studies by John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic and others, show that the success rate of this therapy is approximately 1/3 seizure free, 1/3 marked reduction, and 1/3 no effect. The popularity of this therapy has periodically waned and gained over the years, partly because of the promise of more effective alternatives, partly because of the difficulty of maintaining the therapy. Maintaining the therapy has historically been difficult due to the need for vast amounts of nutritional data and daily complex calculations. In addition it was difficult for physicians to prescribe and monitor progress and take anticipatory action to avoid a therapy failure.
Using 21century mobile tools we have developed a technology capable of effortlessly calculating meals in accordance with physician prescribed variables using data from industry accepted databases. This new technology can calculate meals, provide feedback to the physician and physicians can remotely modify calculation parameters in response to feedback received.