A doctor has shared three ways people at risk of diabetes can prevent getting the disease and how to reverse it. In a recent episode of Steven Bartlett's podcast show, Diary of a CEO, Dr Robert Lustig details all the steps people can take to improve their blood sugar levels. Dr Robert Lustig is professor of paediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco.
He specialises in the impact sugar has on fuelling diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome. The health expert says diabetes is reversible by improving your insulin production and your liver's response to insulin. Three diets people can follow to reverse diabetes include the ketogenic diet, paleo diet and intermittent fasting.
These diets can help reduce your intake of refined carbohydrates and sugar. This in turn allows the liver to burn accumulated fat, which can lead to weight loss and decrease your blood sugar levels. Dr Lustig said: "Numerous studies of various diets show that you can absolutely reverse type 2 diabetes.
In order to do so, you have to get the pancreas to make insulin properly and the only way to do that is to get the liver to respond to insulin properly. "One way is to not challenge the liver, give the liver a rest while it's metabolising all that refined carbohydrate and sugar. Drop the refined carbohydrate and sugar and make your liver work better.
"So ketogenic diets are the extreme version of this. But it's not the only way. Paleo diet is another way and intermittent fasting w.