diet

With Pompe Disease, I’m Slowly Getting Used to a New Diet

For my diagnosis day celebration last week, I indulged and had a doughnut. We also celebrated Thanksgiving early with some apple and pumpkin pie. I really do enjoy eating desserts. But when I received my diagnosis of late-onset Pompe disease four years ago, I learned I needed…

Antioxidant-rich, Ketogenic Diet Boosted ERT Benefits in Mice

A diet combining an oral ketone precursor — a molecule being studied as a dietary supplement — and a cocktail of natural antioxidant molecules boosts the efficacy of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) at maintaining muscle strength and motor function in a mouse model of Pompe disease, a study…

Exercise Plus High-Protein Diet May Benefit LOPD Patients on Lumizyme

Combining exercise training with a high-protein diet improves exercise tolerance, pulmonary function, and quality of life among late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) patients taking Lumizyme (alglucosidase alfa) for years, a small study found. The study, “Exercise training alone or in combination with high-protein diet in patients…