Type 2 Diabetes Treatment and Remission With a Very Low-calorie Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD) and Lifestyle Changes

There is a close association between overweight, abdominal type, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).The scientific literature of recent years shows the existing relationship between weight loss, of 15% or more of body weight, and the positive effect on body composition parameters as well as on glycemic profiles. Specifically, here the investigator focuses on very low carbohydrate ketogenic diets (VLCKDs) as a nutritional strategy for managing excess weight and improving diabetes. Current knowledge is changing the face of T2DM, showing that an effective, appropriate and early intervention can lead to a remission of diabetes involving a partial recovery of insulin secretion as well as its action.

Nevertheless, the daily life of the diabetic patient followed in an office can be less linear than that of a patient participating in a study protocol, with planned follow-up visits and close supervision. What about the impact of VLCKD, observed in clinical studies, in patients with T2DM in real-life? In order to answer this question, we would like to analyze here a series of patient files with T2DM and overweight, followed in a private practice, specializing in diabetology, who have adhered to a VLCKD, by a commercial method (PnK® Method), in order to improve their glycemic control.