Low Carbohydrate Diet May Reverse Kidney Damage In Diabetes

great subject line!!!

It's amazing to me; I know my astonishment when I read Dr. Bernstein's book and discovered his patients had their neuropathy reversed!

So this is wonderfully ironic; but not surprising

This saddens me because I tried to get my diabetic brother to go low carb, but he would only do what his doctor told him, which was to eat high carb to lower his weight. He died, of course, of kidney failure. Recently I put my fat dogs on low carb, and the vet said that they would have problems with their kidneys.

I end up not trusting doctors so much any more.

OK, this doc did a mouse study that showed that a very low carb diet could reverse kidney damage in diabetics. Then he said this: "Knowing how the ketogenic diet reverses nephropathy will help us identify a drug target and subsequent pharmacological interventions that mimic the effect of the diet . . . . We look forward to studying this promising development further."

Let me see if I have this right -- A low carb diet reversed kidney damage. But we're scared of low carb diets [usually because they are rumored to cause kidney damage]. So let's develop a drug that does what low carb diets do. !?!?!?!??

That's too funny - so basically keep on eating crap - and put a drug in your system to help with the crap. I'm sorry, won't your kidneys have to filter that as well?

I guess bunny must have been eating too many carbs!

BAD BUNNY!

I want that on a T shirt.



Sad, isn't it? In some ways we're still in the dark ages of medicine.

Of course. They are planning to develop a drug that mimics the beneficial effect of the diet without all the negative parts.

You mean the negative parts like "not being profitable for the drug companies"?

yep, and this quote from the article '. Considering the extreme requirements of the diet, it is not a long-term solution in adults. '

I guess they are so indoctrinated in the fat terror delusion they just can't help themselves.
All of us who low carb for any duration of time have learned that there isn't really anything extreme about this WOE and one can easily live without mounds of daily carbohydrate and still have incredibly delicious, nourishing and healthy meals.

That's right. And all the various deficiencies a lowcarb diet will induce. Like chocolate cake deficiency, and donut defiency, to name just a few.

This makes me so sad...and a little angry. My dad died of diabetes and all its complications. He was in end-stage renal failure at the end. I wish I knew 5 years ago what I know now, maybe I could have made a difference. Who knows if he would have listened to me though. It makes me so mad when I see them talking about developing a drug for this instead of USING THE FREAKING DIET.

--Melissa

These researchers live in a plastic bubble...Gary Taubes talked about this in a interview once..He said that while writing GCBC,he called several of the researchers whose studies he was using...He wanted to fully understand the dynamics of the study and results..In almost every case of which a study showed reduced carbs caused lower insulin levels and weight loss,he then asked the person,"What do you recommend for a person to lose weight?"..Several said they couldn't comment,it wasn't their field,they weren't a nutritionist...And most said,"Reduce calories and exercise more..."He was so frustrated by this..There is a disconnect between the petri dish and real life...

Both my dad (a physician) and older brother died from complications of diabetes. Two more of my brothers (one an MD, the other a PhD) are diabetics and, unfortunately, are following the ADA eating guidelines.