In this broadcast, Dr. David Perlmutter provides a quick explanation about diabetes and recommends the best diet to follow to treat it. He refers to current research and scientific evidence suggesting that a keto diet is more effective than a low carbs diet such as Atkins diet.
Low-Carb Diet & Type 2 Diabetes
Over the past several years, we've seen the rates of type 2 diabetes in the United States absolutely skyrocket. At this stage, there's no doubt about it: lifestyle choices are playing a key role in causing this problem.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a threat to our collective health not only because of the harmful role diabetes can play in the body, but because of the myriad ailments that tend to be correlated with diabetes and its impacts elsewhere in the body, from the kidneys to the brain. For instance, did you know that type 2 diabetics may have as much as a 4x increase in risk for becoming a patient with Alzheimer's?
All of this in mind, let's look at what lifestyle choices can do to improve the healthspan of type 2 diabetics.
