Low Carbohydrate Diet May Reverse Kidney Failure in People With Diabetes

[Sherrie]

Low Carbohydrate Diet May Reverse Kidney Failure in People With Diabetes

Charles Mobbs, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and his research team evaluated mice that were genetically predisposed to have Type 1 or 2 diabetes. The mice were allowed to develop diabetic nephropathy, or kidney failure. Half of the mice were put on the ketogenic diet, while the control group maintained a standard high carbohydrate diet. The researcher founds that after eight weeks, kidney failure was reversed in the mice on the ketogenic diet.

"Our study is the first to show that a dietary intervention alone is enough to reverse this serious complication of diabetes," said Dr. Mobbs. "This finding has significant implications for the tens of thousands of Americans diagnosed with diabetic kidney failure, and possibly other complications, each year."

[Sherrie]

Reversal of Diabetic Nephropathy by a Ketogenic Diet

[Morte]

Wow, that's pretty impressive.

I guess I'll see how it works in me. I have VERY minor impaired kidney function ... from the type 2 diabetes ... I wonder if it'll heal now that I'm low-carbing it.