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Today we have more of a new topic to discuss and we're

going to talk about how healthy fats are used for the treatment of epilepsy. I am Teresa Wagner.

I'm a registered and licensed dietitian and I am in studio today with Leah Klein Schroatt.

Yeah, great, good job.

I don't know why that vowel at the end of your name always throws me back.

You're not the only one, trust me.

Leah is also a registered and licensed dietitian.

And as we get started today, since this is a new topic, let's just go over what epilepsy is.

It's a neurological disorder.

So a neurological disorder, it just means it affects our brain, our nervous system, right? So it's our brain, our spinal cord, and our nerves that go throughout our entire body.

Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures, and these seizures can vary from very brief and

basically unnoticeable to very long and vigorous shaking episodes.

And this is due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And one way I like to think about that, and maybe this will resonate

with some of the listeners, is if you've ever gone to a

fireworks show and okay they shoot off the fireworks you know for 20 minutes or so and then all

a sudden there's that grand finale at the end and they shoot off all the fireworks all at once

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