The dietitian/nutrition/medical model for diabetes is deeply broken. Person, after person reports success using Keto and the response is.... The response is silence.
My BIL died from diabetes, and saw several dietitian/nutrition/medical staff as he was coached to eat carbs and avoid fat. My wife now says: DOCTOR’S ADVICE KILLED MY BROTHER.
“My wife now says: DOCTOR’S ADVICE KILLED MY BROTHER.”
Sorry to hear that. He may have died anyway, if he wasn’t able to keep to Keto, but he never even had the chance to try it. There are some recent studies on low-carb (not necessarily Keto) that say people have trouble sustaining it.
Well, that’s all good and fine for people who are just trying to lose weight, but otherwise are healthy, or at least think they’re healthy. But dealing with the medications, and then the complications of diabetes has a way of getting people to better focus and better understand the implications of eating that delicious cherry pie.
I don’t know of any studies on the Keto diet where one group of diabetics is told to listen to the ‘usual people’ and continue to eat ‘healthy carbs’ (whatever they are), while the other group is told that they will likely reverse and never have to deal with meds again, not to mention complications - as long as they stay in Ketosis. Something tells me the results will be a bit different than the group simply trying to lose weight.
And don’t be surprised if those studies never happen, and the reason doesn’t even have to be the usual conspirators. It could be medical ethics that prevent it - as the result will likely be a huge difference in the group which gets (and stays) healthy and the group which gets sicker and sicker and starts dying.
In other words, the medical profession is somewhat trapped by their own rules, even if they wanted to break loose of the corporate/government/animal rights groups which control them.