I am not diabetic, but I was developing insulin resistance, and my endocrinologist put me on the diabetic diet, which is similar to KETO.
I can eat all the greens veggies I want. I am supposed to limit carbs to 60g. per day or less. That’s like a piece of toast or a glass of milk with each meal and 1 snack.
If you keep your insulin response low, your insulin receptors can sort of heal themselves and eventually become less resistant. Several doctors discovered this by experimenting with their own diet and getting off the diabetic treadmill.
Insulin shots/meds make you gain weight. They also make your diabetes worse, because the resistance continues to build. The sooner the diet is corrected the better the results.
Adult diabetics will never recover enough to be able to eat carbs like young people do, but then most people aren’t able to do that either.
Right, the difference between a diabetic diet and keto as I understand it is that on a diabetic diet your just keeping your insulin relatively low and somewhat constant. No? Nothing too drastic, just making sure your carb intake is quite moderate.
On keto, you are going past that and restricting carbs enough to pull the metabolism out of glycogenesis and forcing it to produce ketones from lipids.
The dietary changes seem similar, but the metabolic difference is significant.