17/11/2025
🚨 Big Kidney Health News — and it’s not coming from a pill bottle. 🚨
For years, we were told that low-carb or higher-protein diets were dangerous for the kidneys. That eating meat would somehow push people with type 2 diabetes closer to renal decline.
But what happens when we actually look at the data instead of repeating old fears?
That’s exactly what Dr. David Unwin, MD and colleagues did.
📊 Seven years of real-world clinical data.
📉 Patients with type 2 diabetes following a low-carb approach.
💡 The result? Kidney function didn’t decline — it IMPROVED.
Their peer-reviewed analysis found no evidence of harm, and instead noted improvements in weight, blood sugar, blood pressure, medication use, and yes… renal markers. It turns out that stabilizing glucose and insulin (instead of flooding the kidneys with chronic high sugars) is one of the most kidney-protective things you can do.
Citation:
Unwin, D., Unwin, J., Crocombe, D., Delon, C., Guess, N., & Wong, C. (2021). Renal function in patients following a low carbohydrate diet for type 2 diabetes: a review of the literature and analysis of routine clinical data from a primary care service over 7 years. Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity, 28(5), 469–479.
And Dr. Thomas Weimbs illustrated the contrast perfectly at ASN Kidney Week 👇
On the left: “Drug X slows kidney disease”
👏 Big applause.
On the right: “Keto diet reverses kidney disease”
đź‘€ Crickets.
Because nobody profits when food works.
But real people do.
Real patients do.
Real families do.
Low-carb medicine is challenging decades of assumptions — not by theory, but by outcomes.
Metabolic health is kidney health.
And improving both starts with stabilizing blood sugar, lowering insulin load, and nourishing the body with real food — not fear.
If you want peace, clarity, and better health… the data keeps pointing in the same direction.
Strong • Nourished • Real. 💪🥩