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by joobus 1459 days ago
You're missing a very key point of this work:

> Carbohydrate restriction is currently the only whole-foods approach that can reverse a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

Carbohydrates break down to glucose in the bloodstream, the same as pure sugar. For a large and growing number of people, low-carb diets are not simply a means of weight loss.

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Right. Virta Health has shown success in reversing type-2 diabetes with nutritional ketosis.

https://www.virtahealth.com/research

Anecdata here, but keto reversed my type-2 diabetes. Went from an A1C of 6.5 to 5.4 in ~4 months.