His research team limited them to 800 calories consisting of shake, salad and starchy vegetables for weight control and kept them for eight weeks.
After the extreme diet, they recovered normal blood sugar and stopped diabetic medicine. Seven of them continued to have no symptoms of diabetes until three months later.
At least 4 of these did not show diabetes symptoms until after 18 months.
After the extreme diet, the researchers examined their pancreas and liver by MRI and found that the fat accumulated around the two organs disappeared.
"The accumulation of fat in the pancreas and liver prevents the production of insulin and the insulin that is produced is not used properly," says Taylor. "The absence of fat in the two organs implies normalization of insulin production and utilization.
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder caused by insufficient production of insulin and failure of cells to fully utilize insulin.
He said he was surprised by the breakthrough results and said he would start a full-fledged clinical trial with 280 diabetics under the auspices of the British Diabetes Association.
However, this study has no relation to type 1 (diabetes).
Unlike type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin and produces little or no insulin.
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