Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

I wanted to do a quick video to introduce you to what I think is the best diet structure

for autism, okay?

Now, I put a link down below of some really interesting research on this topic.

And if my child had autism, this is where I would start.

Now, I'm not going to create all the details with meal plans.

I want to give you the big idea, the overview, the percentages of the macros

in creating a meal plan for someone with autism.

But if you follow this structure based on the research that I'm seeing,

you'll see significant improvement in your child's communication skills.

Their ability to socialize with other people, their cognitive function,

their demeanor, their ability to have self-control.

So you might want to try this.

Now, the typical ketogenic diet is about 5% carbs, 20% protein, and 75% fat.

I'm going to recommend a tweaked ketogenic diet where you're increasing your fat

to 80 to 90% fat.

And so this is a very similar diet to the diet for kids that have epilepsy, okay?

It's called a traditional ketogenic diet.

But I'm going to recommend the healthy version of that diet by adding more fat

but keeping the ingredients healthy because we want to provide the nutrients

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