[neverdem]

Yes. but the body has the ability to generate all the glucose you need from protein.

If the diet is poor in protein, you're SOL because you will catabolize your muscle.

[Varda]

True but that would be starvation. I choose not to starve. I like my steak big and rare.

I don't know if you've seen this from the open access journal "Metabolism & Nutrition"

Dietary carbohydrate restriction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal

"Reduction or elimination of medication -
A striking effect of carbohydrate restriction is reduction or elimination of medication. Table 1 shows results from Yancy, et al. [19] in which 17 of 21 patients with type 2 diabetes reduced or discontinued diabetes medication upon carbohydrate restriction. Similar results were found by Boden [8] and Nielsen [10,20]. Practitioners have pointed out the need to reduce medication in advance of undertaking a low carbohydrate diet [6,10,20,21] highlighting the power of carbohydrate restriction to bring about the same therapeutic effect as drugs."