Thursday, June 27, 2024 - Episode 1445
By: Melissa Garcia-Caballero, PhD
The Ketogenic Diet's Impact on Lymphedema
- In January 2017, Dr. Melissa Garcia Caballero joined Prof. Peter Carmeliet’s prestigious laboratory in Leuven, Belgium, to investigate the therapeutic role of ketone body supplementation in lymphedema.
- The exciting findings from this study garnered interest among clinicians and led to the initiation of a collaborative translational clinical Phase II trial (KetoLymph) to test the ketogenic diet’s therapeutic potential in cancer patients who develop lymphedema.
- Dr. García Caballero, co-author of over 35 scientific publications, is also a professor at the University of Málaga in Spain.