According to US research team a proscribed diet that is high in fat and low in carbohydrate may repair kidney damage in diabetic mice. A ketogenic diet could reverse the injury caused to tubes in the kidneys due to excessive of sugar in the blood, reported the study published in Journal PLoS ONE.
About a third of the nearly three million people suffering either type 1 or type 2 diabetes go on to develop kidney damage in the UK. In the lab study carried out by researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, used mice suffering both type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
On developing kidney damage, about half of the mice were put onto the ketogenic diet the period of eight weeks. The highly proscribed diet including eighty-seven percent fats imitates the effect of hunger and should not be used without therapeutic recommendation. The researchers noted that after eight weeks kidney damage was upturned.
According to study author Prof Charles Mobbs, their study is the first to show that a dietary intercession alone is sufficient to reverse this grave complication of diabetes. However they could not recommend that until they have done clinical trials. They also require fathoming the accurate process which leads to repair.
This study was conducted in mice so it is intricate to observe how these results would decipher into any real benefits for people with diabetes at this stage, explained Dr Iain Frame, director of research at Diabetes UK. It is east to pronounce that kidney failure could be prevented by diet alone.
It is also questionable if the diet used in this pattern would be sustainable for humans, even in the short term, added Dr Frame.