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Low-carbohydrate diet can cure type-2 diabetes
When type-2 diabetes patients follow a low carbohydrate diet for a year, they lose an average of 13 kilos, increase their insulin sensitivity and drastically reduce their use of medicines. After that year may sometimes even completely abandon their medication. American researchers report this in Diabetes Therapy.
The keto diet
Virta Health markets the dietary concept that the researchers have tested in this study. The researchers describe this approach as "a comprehensive care model that supports patients to achieve sustained nutritional ketosis while eating to satiety may have robust benefits in type-2 diabetes management."
Virta Health financed the study.
Study
Results
The low-carbohydrate diet reduced the HbA1c concentration in the subjects' blood. The lower this value, the greater the sensitivity to insulin.
In the subjects in the control group, the sensitivity to insulin did not improve.
As you would expect with such nice results, most participants in the low-carbohydrate group were able reduce their medication use. This also happened with the diabetics who had to use insulin.
Conclusion
"Most intervention participants [..] reported at 1 year achieved glycemic control in the sub-diabetes range with either no medication or the use of metformin alone. Related health parameters improved including blood pressure, lipid-lipoprotein profile, inflammation, and liver function."
"Ongoing research will determine the continued sustainability, effectiveness, and safety of these behavioral and metabolic changes."
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