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The precursor work done by Taylor and Lean was done at Glasgow Uni, and was exploring VLC diets and low energy liquid diets on groups of people who were a mixture of T2D and non-diabetic to gauge weight loss efficacy in obese people. Their first diet study was apparently a small-scale 600 cal VLC using just shakes. The first trial at Newcastle was the low-energy Optifast trial. I believe it was the second trial that used the MRI scans of the liver to show the effects of the diet on NAFLD The diabetes results came out of the second trial. There is no evidence I could see that any of his studies used keto level diets,I don't think that is correct - the primary aim was to try and improve blood glucose in people with type 2 diabetes. This is a quote from a BBC interview with Prof Tayloe:-
"Although everybody has thought for a long time that Type 2 Diabetes is a disease for life that gets worse and worse, it started to become clear there are some clues that it could be completely reversed, and quite simply. In 2008 I started planning a research project to test out that idea. This involved persuading people to follow a very low calorie diet for 8 weeks. We developed some special new tests using the magnetic resonance scanner which brought together several different lines of work." https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/8ZgRfSypm8l8R9ymrTDSg4/q-a-with-professor-roy-taylor
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/130256/
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