In honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, Diet Doctor wants all our readers to know: if you have type 2 diabetes, or prediabetes, eating a low-carb diet can help reverse it. That’s the hopeful and inspiring message in the DD News video created earlier this fall by Dr. Bret Scher, the Medical Director of Diet Doctor. If you have diabetes, this is a video we strongly recommend you watch. “It is really important to help all of us with our mindset about how we think about diabetes,” explains Dr. Scher. Diabetes is now affecting some 13% of adults in the US alone, for a total of 34 million cases. Bu ..read more

Do you have a diagnosis of diabetes or prediabetes? If you do, you’re not alone. There are millions of people like you the world over, and the numbers are growing every year. Diet Doctor is here to help. We want everyone to know that diabetes can be reversed and its complications can often be avoided by adopting a low-carb diet and other lifestyle changes. In honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, we have collected our key diabetes guides and resources into a handy, centralized hub. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to find everything you need to help you manage, and yes, even rever ..read more

When Kathy first discovered a low-carb diet, it was a life-changing revelation. After decades of struggle with weight and high blood sugar, she was able to get out of the morbid obesity range and reverse her type 2 diabetes. But after a while, she found herself eating too much fat and over-eating low-carb, high-fat treats. During a difficult time in her life, she regained almost all her lost weight. But when her physician, Dr. Ted Naiman, started recommending a higher protein, lower carb plan, she decided to double her protein intake. The result was 130 pounds (60 kilos) lost to date and revi ..read more

Over the last decade, rates of gestational diabetes (also known as diabetes of pregnancy) have significantly increased in the US among all pregnant women. In fact, between 2011 and 2019, rates increased from 47.6 to 63.5 per 1,000 live births in the US, according to a recent report in Medpage Today. Medpage Today: Gestational diabetes rates climb among all racial, ethnic groups In gestational diabetes (GD), a woman’s blood sugar rises too high. The condition puts the mother and the unborn baby at higher risk of many complications including very large size, birth defects, miscarriage, dangerou ..read more

Calvin has told his keto diet success story twice before and now he’s back to update Diet Doctor readers on even more of his incredible progress. In 2017, Calvin was our most popular success story. He described how within two weeks of starting a keto diet he came off all insulin for his type 2 diabetes and soon had normalized his blood sugar. In 2018 he was back with another update, describing how he had lost 140 pounds (63.5 kg) but then stalled. He told how he got the scale moving again with information from Diet Doctor and by more closely tracking his food intake. In this interview, Calvi ..read more

Meet Terri: 200 pounds (91 kilos) lost, type 2 diabetes reversed, mental health greatly improved, and psoriatic arthritis gone. These are the results that Terri has gotten from a low-carb diet. “My energy is great, and I feel at least 25 or 30 years younger than I am!,” Terri says. Over time, Terri has found that a strict carnivore diet, a low-carb diet based only on animal products, suited her the best. In this interview, Terri shares her story, which has been edited for length and clarity. What’s your name, age, and where do you live? I’m Terri from Ontario, Canada, and I’m 64 years old. I ..read more

Diet and lifestyle changes can be powerful treatments! With the help of a keto diet, Marie-Jeanne is down 64 pounds (29 kilos) compared to her highest weight. But most importantly, she has greatly improved her type 2 diabetes and reduced the amount of medication that she needs. Here, Marie-Jeanne shares her story, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Marie-Jeanne’s story I am Marie-Jeanne, a 66-(nearly 67!)-year-old retired secretary, living in Belgium. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about 15 years ago. At that time, I weighed 258 pounds (117 kilos) at 5 foot 5 (167 cm ..read more

How does a low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet impact your blood sugar levels? Nick sent us a beautiful graph of his results from his continuous glucose monitor (CGM). Since switching to LCHF, Nick’s blood sugar is much more stable than it was on the American Diabetes Association (ADA) diet, and the lines demonstrate this. He also lost 45 pounds (20 kilos). Here, Nick shares his story, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity. What’s your name, age, and where do you live? My name is Nick, and I’m from Georgia, USA. How did you discover keto or low carb? I am 62 and I’ve had type 2 dia ..read more

After fighting to get to an ideal weight by following the dietary guidelines, Linda’s hard-earned progress was erased after a stressful move. She and Tom, her husband, entered a cooking, baking, and eating cycle, and everything started to revolve around food. But then, Tom was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and they realized they needed to make a change. With each doctor’s appointment, Tom was advised to cut down more and more on carbs. Soon, after doing some research on their own, the couple decided to take the full step and go on a keto diet together. “Nine months after beginning the jour ..read more

Photo: Spencer Bibbs Dr. Tony Hampton is a family physician on the South Side of Chicago. He is writing a monthly column for Diet Doctor. This is his fifth column. When I was a young doctor in training, going more than 24 hours without sleep was expected. It proved that you were tough and strong, that you could handle the demanding pace of medicine. We’d boast about how long we’d been awake, but then driving home from work I’d almost fall asleep at a stoplight. I’d struggle to stay awake when a patient gave their medical history. Going without enough sleep wasn’t good— for me and my health ..read more