Diabetes is a illness the place you’ve gotten issues producing or utilizing the hormone insulin (Kind 2 Diabetes), or when your physique doesn’t produce insulin in any respect (Kind 1 Diabetes).

Insulin is the hormone that’s produced to assist your physique take up glucose, retailer glucose as glycogen, or retailer glucose as fats.  The extra glucose you devour, the extra insulin your physique will produce.

The precise causes of Kind 2 Diabetes are unknown, however we do perceive the first threat elements to be weight, fats distribution, inactivity, household historical past, race, age, prediabetes, gestational diabetes, and polycystic ovarian syndrome.  [7]

There have been a number of research on how the ketogenic food plan impacts individuals with Kind 2 Diabetes:

1.)  In 2005, a examine at Duke checked out 28 obese individuals with kind 2 diabetes.  After 16 weeks of occurring the Ketogenic Food plan, receiving dietary counseling, and decreasing medictions – they discovered a median of 19 lbs misplaced, decreased blood glucose ranges by 17%, and decreased triglyceride (fats) ranges by 42%.  [18]

2.) One other examine in contrast outcomes of Kind 2 Diabetes between a low calorie food plan and a Ketogenic Food plan.  Here’s a desk of the outcomes: [19]

3.) One other examine in contrast individuals with out diabetes to find out how these diets would possibly influence the chance of getting Kind 2 Diabetes. [20] They put individuals into 3 totally different food plan teams:

Listed below are some key outcomes of this examine:

• All diets produced comparable physique fats and weight reduction.
• VLCARB was simpler in bettering tracylglycerols, HDL ldl cholesterol, fasting and post-meal glucose and insulin concentrations. Extra particularly, triacylglycerols decreased by 39.9% in VLCARB topics, 4.0% in VLF topics, and 9.6% in HUF topics.
• Insulin ranges decreased by 33.6% in VLCARB topics, decreased by 18.7% in HUF topics, and elevated by 15.1% in VLF topics.