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The keto diet helped cure a child of epileptic seizuresAlana ‘Lani’ Silverberg was diagnosed with a rare form of childhood epilepsyHer seizures stopped within a month of starting a keto diet

MONDAY, Nov. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Alana “Lani” Silverberg was a real firecracker with a big personality at age 3 — until she started having seizures.

The sweetheart swiftly turned quiet, cranky, sleepless and fatigued, worn down by her seizures.

“It was every parent’s nightmare. Lani was having one large seizure a week. At one point, we didn’t know what else we were going to do,” her mom, Sara Silverberg, said in a news release.

But Lani now is free from seizures, thanks to a keto diet recommended by her doctors at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore.

“We knew it was

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