Low carb and keto for doctors
Contrary to old paradigm that type 2 diabetes is a chronic, progressive disease, recent evidence has shown that it is possible to entirely reverse it!
Just that, as healthcare professionals, we need to open our mind and change our mindset to embrace this new development in the diabetes treatment!
It all started with findings from type 2 diabetic obese patients who underwent Bariatric surgeries. It was found that in majority of them, their diabetes went into remission! How it is possible, just by making their stomach smaller, their diabetes vanished into thin air?
Bariatric surgery and diabetes remission: Who would have thought it?
Prof Roy Taylor and his team at Newcastle University was one of pioneering researchers in type 2 diabetes reversal using very low calorie diet. His recent DiRECT Study, published in Lancet, showed 46% remission rate in the intervention group.Very impressive!
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)33102-1/fulltext
In recent Virta Trial, where 262 participants were induced into nutritional ketosis with ketogenic diet, HbA1c were reduced on average, from 7.6% from baseline to 6.6% after 10 weeks. The study is ongoing for 2 years and we expect very exciting result!
http://diabetes.jmir.org/2017/1/e5/
Newest data from Virta clinical trial, published in Diabetes Therapy, showed outcomes of their diabetes reversal programme after 1 year. Here are among the results:
- 64% of patients reversed type 2 diabetes!
- 94% of patients either reduced insulin usage or removed it altogether!
Dr Jason Fung, Nephrologist from Toronto, Canada, actively disseminating knowledge of intermittent fasting to his diabetic and had shown very promising result in reversing the disease. You can find many great articles in his blog:
https://idmprogram.com/blog/
Great article on intermittent fasting (pdf form)-please download:-
intermittent fasting-Dr Jason Fung (pdf)
A mind blowing article on insulin by Dr Ron Rosedale:-
Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects (pdf)
Review article from Journal of Obesity (2017) :-
Flipping The Metabolic Switch: Understanding and Applying The Health Benefits of Fasting
From European Journal of Clinical Nutrition:
In this posting, I'm presenting some of the articles, links & videos for your reference. Happy reading & welcome to new journey!
Some of other interesting lectures on low carb diet...ꜜ
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