I wonder if keto diet causes diabetes in the long run

[Anonymous]

No, again what the new weightloss drug shave taught us anything it's that biology and brain chemistry play a huge roll in all of this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I have T2D and my endo & nutritionist both have me on a modified keto diet. I say modified because most of the fruits & veggies that are banned with a strict keto diet are not banned for me. I also do not eat the fatty foods allowed with keto because there's a history of heart disease in my family.

My A1C prior to starting the modified diet was 8.2. I have been on it for 16 months now and my A1C is now 5.6 which is the borderline with normal and prediabetes.

I went from taking 2000mg of Metformin per day to 1000mg/day to now just 1 500mg pill each day.

I have lost around 25 lbs. with diet alone and no exercise added in other than my daily walks with my dog. I am working on my gym and exercise phobias because I know I need to add in exercise to make things better.

This is not a keto diet. Just a modified lower carb diet which is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This got me curious and i found this article below. At first i thought any possibility of keto causing diabetes seemed crazy,
But a quick google search turned up a lot more controversy than expected. In a nutshell, it seems keto is beneficial in avoiding type 2 diabetes and not causing it, but there are some skeptics out there and lab studies on mice have shown some becoming diabetic for keto.


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6738531/

Thank you for that link! There could be something to it, it seems.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think keto causes diabetes, but it also doesn’t reverse it either. It just gives you less symptoms of diabetes if you are eating zero/very little carbs. It isn’t really reversed if you can’t eat a normal diet with varied food groups.

The biggest risk factor for diabetes is extra weight. Extra adipose tissue is a known hormone disruptor