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Lead
Johns Hopkins University
With
Nutricia North America
Cornell University
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Familial or sporadic ALS diagnosed as probable, laboratory-supported probable or definite according to the World Federation of Neurology El Escorial criteria
2. Age 18 or older
3. Capable of providing informed consent and complying with trial procedures
4. Gastrostomy tube in place for the prior month
5. Appel ALS score less than 100
6. Able to stand on a scale with assistance
7. For patients with Appel ALS scores greater than 80, availability of caregiver who is willing and able to:
* Prepare, administer and log tube feeds
* Check and log gastric residuals
* Assist with weighing subject at home if necessary
8. Willing to chart food intake during the six-month study
9. Patients either not taking Riluzole (Rilutek) or Minocycline or on a stable dose of these for 30 days
10. Not taking Coenzyme Q10 or on a stable dose and brand for 30 days
You may not be if
1. Forced vital capacity \<50% of predicted
2. Dependence on mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours per day
3. Exposure to any experimental agent within 30 days of onset of this protocol
4. Women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant
5. Women of childbearing potential not practicing contraception
6. Enrollment in another research study within 30 days of or during this trial
7. Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) score \<20
8. Patients with symptomatic cardiac disease or hypercholesterolemia
9. Patients with myocardial infarction within 6 months of this trial
10. Renal dysfunction defined as BUN and creatinine \>2XULN
11. Known mitochondrial disease
12. BMI\<18.5
13. Prior use of a 4:1 ketogenic diet or Atkins diet within 1 month of this trial
14. Impaired liver function, defined as AST or ALT of 3 X ULN
15. Patients who have a pacemaker or other internal electronic medical device
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