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It would probably a very good idea if you can keep to it.

Doing so with mild T2 diabetes could lead to complete remission (as long as the diet is kept).

In more advanced T2 diabetes it could lead to significant improvement, and reduction of required medication.

People with T1 diabetes simply don't produce enough insulin. External insulin is required.

Management of T1 diabetes is also way more complicated and mistakes are immediately life threatening.

Are you familiar with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's approach? It is a very low carb diet (he doesn't call it Keto as Ketosis is not the aim) combined with a lifetime of experience managing it.

See his book The Diabetes Solution, his Youtube channel, and the Type1Grit facebook group. There are a lot of type 1s running <5% HbA1C on his program.

He's definitely very contreversial, but I always found his reasoning extremley presvasive. Not to mention that he's a 90 year old with T1 from childhood, still practicing medicine and seeing patients (or at least he's been practicing up to a few months ago).

https://www.diabetes-book.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@DrRichardKBernstein/videos

https://www.facebook.com/Type1Grit/

There's also the great Gary Tabues and his books, especially Rethinking Diabets

https://garytaubes.com/rethinking-diabetes/



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