Ketogenic Diet Cut Liver Fat 67% and Drove 50% Prediabetes Remission in 42-Adult Trial
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Updated · ScienceAlert · Aug 27
Ketogenic Diet Cut Liver Fat 67% and Drove 50% Prediabetes Remission in 42-Adult Trial
3 articles · Updated · ScienceAlert · Aug 27
Summary
A 42-adult clinical trial found the ketogenic diet delivered the strongest metabolic gains after participants lost about 10% of body weight, outperforming Mediterranean and very low-fat diets on liver health and prediabetes remission.
Liver fat fell 67% in the keto group versus 45% in each comparison group, while liver insulin sensitivity improved two to three times more than with the other diets.
Prediabetes remission reached 50% on keto, compared with 29% on the Mediterranean diet and 7% on the low-fat plant-forward diet after roughly five months of fully provided meals.
Researchers said the benefit may stem from very low carbohydrate intake—4% of calories on keto—lowering glucose and insulin, reducing new liver fat production and promoting breakdown of existing fat.
The authors said the findings, published in Cell Metabolism, come from a small study and do not show whether less-restrictive low-carb diets would produce the same effects.