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Nutritional therapy is important to treat the type 2 diabetes optimally, but the recommendations are unclear. According to the Danish Health Authority, up to 85% of newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes are overweight, and they are typically advised to follow a diet focused on weight loss: containing less calories than they burn, low fat content and a high content of carbohydrates with a low 'glycaemic index' (which indicates how quickly a food affects blood sugar levels). Reduced carbohydrate content -- increase in protein and fat A central aspect in the treatment of type 2 diabetes is the patient's ability to regulate their blood sugar levels, and new research now indicates that a diet with a reduced carbohydrate content and an increased share of protein and fat improves the patient's ability to regulate his or her blood sugar levels compared with the conventional dietary recommendations. In addition, it reduces liver fat content and also has a beneficial effect on fat metabolism in type 2 diabetics. "The purpose of our study was to investigate the effects of the diet without 'interference' from a weight loss. For that reason, the patients were asked to maintain their weight. Our study confirms the assumption that a diet with a reduced carbohydrate content can improve patients' ability to regulate their blood sugar levels -- without the patients concurrently losing weight," explains Senior Consultant, DMSc Thure Krarup, MD, from the Department of Endocrinology at Bispebjerg Hospital. He continues: "Our findings are important, because we've removed weight loss from the equation. Previous studies have provided contradictory conclusions, and weight loss has complicated interpretations in a number of these studies." New dietary recommendations for type 2 diabetics in future Based on the growing body of evidence, we might rethink the dietary recommendations for patients with type 2 diabetes, stresses Thure Krarup: "The study shows that by reducing the share of carbohydrates in the diet and increasing the share of protein and fat, you can both treat high blood sugar and reduce liver fat content. Further intensive research is needed in order to optimise our dietary recommendations for patients with type 2 diabetes," says Thure Krarup, stressing that the findings should be confirmed in large-scale, long-term controlled trials. Summary: What did the study show? A diet with a reduced carbohydrate content, high protein content and moderately increased fat content improves glycaemic control (the ability to regulate blood sugar) by reducing blood sugar after meals and 'long-term blood sugar' (measured by 'HbA1c', which is a blood test used to measure the average blood sugar level over approximately the past two months). A diet with a reduced carbohydrate content, a high protein content and a moderately increased fat content reduces liver fat content. A diet with a reduced carbohydrate content may be beneficial to patients with type 2 diabetes -- even if it does not lead to weight loss. About the study The study forms part of CutDM, which -- supported by a grant of DKK 4 million from Arla Food for Health -- examines whether a diet with reduced carbohydrate content and increased protein and fat content improves type 2 patients' blood sugar regulation. 28 patients with type 2 diabetes participated in the study over a total period of 12 weeks. For six weeks, the patients were given a conventional diabetes diet with a high carbohydrate content, and, for the other six weeks, they were given a diet with a reduced carbohydrate content, high protein content and moderately increased fat content. The patients were given the diet types in random order. Story Source: Materials provided by Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference: Mads J. Skytte, Amirsalar Samkani, Amy D. Petersen, Mads N. Thomsen, Arne Astrup, Elizaveta Chabanova, Jan Frystyk, Jens J. Holst, Henrik S. Thomsen, Sten Madsbad, Thomas M. Larsen, Steen B. Haugaard, Thure Krarup. A carbohydrate-reduced high-protein diet improves HbA1c and liver fat content in weight stable participants with type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial. Diabetologia, 2019; DOI: 10.1007/s00125-019-4956-4

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I think more people need to read and understand the concept of insulin sensitivity/resistance and its role in metabolizing nutrients, as well as digestion.

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I know this is an old thread but I wanted to respond as I have some 1st hand experience in this area. My sister has thyroid issues and has struggled for years as her tests/bloodwork kept coming back without issue. A close friend of mine same deal. My sister got fed up with being told it wasn't thyroid because the labs kept coming back ok and this is from 2 different Canadian Labs in Ontario, yet she was convinced thyroid was the issue. My friend had tests done from 2 different Labs as well. She had periodically gotten hold of meds or thyroid, whatever it is yu treat with, I'm not knowledgable in that area, and she would feel better after having some of that but as soon as she ran out, BOOM, back to feeling like shit. So my sister decides to go down to the US and have bloodwork done there from now a third lab and guess what, the results came back showing a clear problem. She asked them how the F could she have multiple labs and tests ran on multiple occasions and they all came back showing no issue now here is yours showing the exact issue that I believed was in play. Apparently the lab folks said they see this all the time from Canadians and that the most common labs up here, and primarily CML/Lifelabs use shit equipment to run the assays, their policies on site are rubbish and samples are far to often contaminated, or lost/destroyed and instead of saying that they just send results back showing something in the normal range. Now I can't speak to the veracity of this or say it applies to any other tests they do, but that is what she was told regarding the Thyroid stuff. So she decides that this one test wouldn't be enough to sway her doc so she goes and gets another from a different lab in the US and low and behold, same results as the first US lab and now we have 2 US labs vs 2 Canadian labs with the US labs showing completely different results.. She was due for more bloodwork at CML/Lifelabs in Canada, goes and gets it done and wouldn't you know it comes back same as the rest before, showing no issue. So she goes to the lab and waves the US results under their nose and they stuttered and stammered and had all sorts of reasons why this could have happened but given how many tests came back wrong it had to have been pretty much as the US lab described it or how else could it be possible. So CML/Lifelabs "promises to get to the bottom of it" lol, takes more blood and WOW, it's a bloody miracle, now their test results come back same as the US ones! Their story is that they identified a flaw in the firmware of some such machine or other, ya right, but it's fixed now. Ya ok, I'm sure that's it. Anyway, finally my sister gets the meds she needs and is way better off. So once I found this out I told my buddy and said man, scrape up the cash and head to NY and get this shit done. He does and same deal, results show Thyroid issue that previous labs didn't show. He couldn't afford any more testing or trips to the US but he took those labs back to his doc and told the doc everything I told him and got put on meds and was hugely improved as a result. So this was a couple of years ago and no idea what the state of things is at CML/Lifelabs with this or I think the other lab is "Dyna" or something like that. But in my sister's case she hasn't gotten incorrect labs from CML/Lifelabs ever again, for this issue anyway or anything else that she is aware of. Sorry for the long story but maybe it's worth trying for you and who knows. Cheers

Finasteride will not help against Proviron. Finasteride blocks test conversion to DHT. Proviron is a DHT derivative and so 'already reduced.'