A December 2023 study by the University of California, Santa Barbara said they were,
“… really happy about these clinical trial results … We now have the first evidence in humans that the cysts really don’t like to be in ketosis and that they don’t seem to grow.”
“If you have PKD, the dogma is that it’s a genetic disease … And no matter what you do, you progress toward kidney failure and diet doesn’t make any difference, which unfortunately most patients are told to this day.”
“To everyone’s great surprise, kidney function actually improved with the ketogenic diet … And that was a hard outcome of statistical significance.”
“Doctors often assume that their patients cannot adhere to a diet anyway, so they don’t even try. Clearly, this is not true. People with PKD are highly motivated to do something about their condition,”
“A keto diet just means very low carbs,”
“If you make a discovery in animals, but you don’t check it in actual people, you’ll never quite know if it’s going to be meaningful … There’s always going to be the doubt, and people are going to say animal experiments don’t always translate to humans.”