You don't have to be a genius to have a great idea, and occasionally some ideas that work are, well, pretty dumb.

Taking the phrase, if it works, it works to the highest degree, let's check out some dumb ideas that against all odds actually work.

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You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening to be amazed.

Many people assume getting healthy involves cutting out fatty foods.

But for several surprising reasons, that could be wrong.

And in one particular case, a diet of cheese, butter, and other

fatty delights might have saved a boy's life. It all comes down to a little thing called ketosis.

This is a bodily process that occurs when carbohydrates are cut out of the diet, so the body

begins to burn fats instead of glucose.

This can be a super effective way to lose weight, but a six-year-old boy's life was changed

in an even bigger way when he took on a ketogenic diet.

Charlie Smith's from Surrey, England, used to suffer 300 dangerous epileptic fits a day,

and despite a cocktail of prescribed drugs,

nothing seemed to help. Desperate for a solution under the guidance of their doctor, Charlie's

family turned to a high fat diet containing cheese, mayonnaise, and full fat butter by the spoonful.

Miraculously, Charlie's debilitating seizures came to a stop.

No one's sure why this diet seems to help epileptics, but starving the brain of energy

in the form of glucose may be what makes seizures less likely.

Either way it works, and thanks to this somewhat strange idea, many epileptics can live a normal life.

Now let me teach you some ingenious life hacks. Ever been left with burnt fingertips

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