Nutritional Ketosis: a Novel Metabolic Strategy to Treat Lymphedema Patients?

Ketocal, a nutritionally complete ready-to-drink liquid, is foreseen to ensure adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals will be used. After 24 weeks a Modified Atkins diet will be started.

Patients will follow an isocaloric diet

25g of a ketone monoester, ingested 3 times a day for a period of 12 weeks. Ingestion is separated from a meal and interspersed by at least 4 hours to ensure maximal available ketone bodies circulating in the blood.