The risks of ketogenic diet diabetic patients go for this keto cause health problems
Q What are the risks of the ketogenic diet? can diabetic patients go for this diet? There are certainly some risks to the keto diet, but it can be very helpful to SOME diabetics but be aware, there are SEVEN totally different diseases called diabetes, and only ONE of them really benefits from a keto diet but two others may get some help from it. To start, there are four different diseases called DI Diabetes Insipidus. These diseases all involve a loss of, or poor response to, the hormone vasopressin aka, ADH, or Anti Diuretic Hormone. This is the hormone that co.ntrols fluid balance in the body in all four versions of this group of diseases, the lack or poor response to that hormone causes the patients to suffer polyurea excessive urination and polydipsia extreme thirst. There are treatments for most of these patients, but they vary a lot, and NONE of them has anything to do with diet. So for these four diseases, the keto diet is pointless. Then there are the three types of DM Diabetes Mellitus. ALL of these involve a lack of, or poor response to the hormone insulin which is the primary BG Blood Glucose lowering hormone. It is ONLY ONE of SIX gluco regulatory hormones, but without it we die. T1 Type 1 autoimmune DM is the disease wherein insulin production is totally lost due to the immune system malfunctioning and at.tacking and dtroying the cells of the pancreas the pancreatic endocrine beta cells that produce insulin. This is a TINY portion of the pancreas less than 2pc of it, but without these cells, no insulin or amylin a helper hormone to insulin is produced. ONLY by injecting insulin can we live until the discovery, isolation, extraction, and purification of insulin from animal pancreases in 1921, ALL T1s died within weeks or a few months of diagnosis. For us Ive been a T1 since May 1966, the keto diet is NOT appropriate only insulin injections will keep us alive. T3c Type 3c pancreatogenic DM is a sort of collateral damage version of T1. It is NOT caused by the immune system, but rather, an unrelated disease of the exocrine pancreas that damages the endocrine pancreas including those endocrine beta cells, thereby causing a drop in insulin production. BUT… these patients do NOT lose ALL insulin production just some and how much varies from patient to patient. The primary causative diseases of T3c are pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, and haemochromatosis. Some T3cs MAY benefit from a keto diet but most, like T1s, must inject insulin to live. AND… they must typically ALSO take digtive enzymes to digt their foods because of the damage to the exocrine pancreas. T2 Type 2 Insulin Resistant DM is the disease wherein the bodys cells fail to respond to insulin properly they need MUCH MORE than normal amounts of insulin to allow glucose to pass through the cell wall into the cell, where its NEEDED for fuel. As a result, too much glucose gets left behind in the bloodstream. BUT.. their bodies produce LOTS of insulin, and at least some glucose gets into the cells though too much gets left behind in the bloodstream. For these patients, a keto diet can be VERY helpful. SO… what about the keto diet? It was originally invented to treat EPILEPSY it had NOTHING to do with T2 originally. Only in recent years has it come into vogue for treating T2. Heres a study of the diet and its use for T2 patients from 2005 be aware, the keto diet was first used for treating epilepsy in the 1920s. Here goes A low carbohydrate, ketogenic diet to treat type 2 diabetes Heres an outline I wrote for a similar query on the keto diet There are four phases to a proper keto diet Induction, Weight loss, Pre maintenance, and Maintenance. The induction phase is the very low carb phase. It induces your body to burn excess fa.t tissue, by denying the primary source of glucose carbohydrates. Carbs are nothing more than sugar chains, which in your digtive tract, rapidly become glucose the type of sugar our bodies literally run on. When you have more glucose than you need your body stores it, as fa.t tissue. The purpose of this is to provide long term nutritional storage during lean periods, early mankind survived on their own body fa.t. BUT… nowadays, there are no lean times. We eat too much, and get fa.t. The induction phase is maintained only for a few weeks. A true ketogenic diet co.nsists of about 80pc to 90pc fa.t, 8pc to 15pc protein, and 2pc to 5pc carbs. Thats the typical target range in the induction phase of the keto diet. The objective of this phase is to initiate the burning of fa.t tissue to create ketone bodies, which are the ONLY fuel source our bodies can run on besides glucose to get these ketones, the body breaks down fa.t tissue into ketones and fay acids, and burns off
