In this week’s podcast, we discuss how the ketogenic diet can reverse diabetes. Despite what traditional medical professionals tell you, diabetes doesn’t have to be a chronic lifelong condition. It can be reversed.
Low carb intervention can reverse diabetes because at its core, diabetes is a disease of too much fat accumulation. Years of bad eating, meaning pairing high carb and high fat meals together, lead to an accumulation of fat in cells in places like our liver, pancreas and muscles. This is called ectopic fat. Once this occurs, your body is no longer able to maintain a healthy blood sugar value and your blood sugar goes sky high.
The trick to reversing diabetes is to get the fat out of these tissues that don’t want it. The best way to do that is to go low carb. Switching to a ketogenic diet will lower your blood insulin levels and give your body the opportunity to mobilize the fat out of your internal organs and burn it for fuel. Once this occurs, your cells will slowly start to become more sensitive to insulin and you will officially be on the road to recovery!
To learn more about how a ketogenic diet can reverse diabetes, listen to this week’s podcast.
Links To Studies Mentioned
Insulin: understanding its action in health and disease
A New Look at Insulin, Glucagon & the Pancreas (a.k.a. ITIS part 9)
A deep dive in to Insulin Resistance and Personal Fat Threshold – Part 1
The New Biology and Pharmacology of Glucagon
Hepatic secretion of VLDL fatty acids during stimulated lipogenesis in men
Dr. Mariela Glandt – ‘Reawakening the pancreas in Type 2 Diabetes’
Dr. Ted Naiman – ‘Insulin Resistance’
Adipocyte size predicts incidence of type 2 diabetes in women.
Normal weight individuals who develop Type 2 diabetes: the personal fat threshold
Lipodystrophy: metabolic insights from a rare disorder.
Ectopic fat in insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and cardiometabolic disease.
