Until not long ago, diabetes seemed like a degenerative process that was always getting worse and ended up requiring insulin and other drugs. However, this idea has changed in recent years. In 2017, The Lancet magazine published the DIRECT study, a study that showed that if significant weight loss was achieved, it was possible to make the disease remit and get rid of drugs.
The obstacle to that knowledge changing the course of the disease was that the nutritionists and personal trainers who helped the patients in this study are not within the reach of the public health.
Since the publication of that study, different techniques are being tested to achieve that weight reduction that makes diabetes regress.
Today, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism publishes a paper showing how an intermittent fasting intervention can improve the health of people who suffer from the disease, reduce the need for medication, and even eliminate it altogether. for the remission of the disease.
The authors, researchers from the Hunan Agricultural University (China), applied a type of diet, baptized as Chinese medical nutrition therapy, which combined five days of fasting in which 840 kilocalories were consumed daily at controlled times, followed by 10 in the which was eaten normally.
