Over time, a number of studies have been performed on human subjects to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet on type II diabetes, and it is well known that this diet regulates blood sugar. One of the studies we will refer to can be found here and was performed on 28 overweight patients diagnosed with type II diabetes.
The subjects of the group maintained, for 16 weeks, a diet low in carbohydrates, with less than 20 grams of carbohydrates per day, and at the beginning of the study, their drugs specific to type II diabetes were reduced quantitatively. Weekly, they returned for measurements and analyzes.
Of the 28 patients, 21 remained in the clinical trial until the end, 20 of them being men, with a mean age of 56 years and an average body mass of 42.2. After adapting to the ketogenic diet, glycosylated hemoglobin (HBA1C), a marker that provides the average blood glucose over the last three months, decreased by 16 percent, from 7.5 ± 1.4% to 6.3 ± 1.0%. If you already have diabetes or have family members who have diabetes, you probably already know that HBA1C must be within 4-5.9% to be within normal parameters. To regulate it, adopting a ketogenic diet is one of the best options.
The medication was discontinued in 7 of the participants, reduced to 10 of them and unchanged in the last 4. Also, by the end of the study, there was an average weight loss of 6.6%.
The conclusion, based, of course, on a plethora of studies, one of which has been offered as an example, is that a low carb / ketogenic diet improves the blood sugar of patients with diabetes to the point where they can control their disease with the help of diet, and in time may even give up medication, under the close supervision of a doctor.
In fact, before the advent of injectable insulin in the 1920s, the therapy used was food. The dietary recommendations of that period were meant to control glycosuria (glucose in the urine) and were totally different from the recommendations accepted worldwide today (low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet). For example, Dr. Elliot Joslin's diet in 1923 recommended the consumption of "meat, poultry, game, fish, soups, gelatin - bone broth, eggs, butter, olive oil, coffee, tea" and contained, as a percentage. , about 5% carbohydrates, 20% protein and 75% fat. Currently, the WHO and all other globally recognized organizations recommend to diabetics, on average, 130 grams of carbohydrates per day and a low amount of fat.
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