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Dental hygienist Kerry Lepicek joins Jackie Sanders and Andrew Johnston to share her personal experience with rapidly progressing glaucoma and the dramatic vision loss that followed. She discusses the subtle visual changes she initially dismissed, the importance of advocating for herself, and how the experience has changed the way she thinks about her health and…

The ketogenic diet (KD), a high-fat, low-carbohydrate dietary regimen widely used for drug-resistant epilepsy and weight management, has been increasingly applied in adolescents. However, its long-term effects on juvenile cardiac development and functional homeostasis remain poorly understood. Here, juvenile mice (postnatal day 28–84) were fed a KD, and the underlying mechanisms were further investigated in…