When people with type 2 diabetes and obesity follow a low-carb diet for 12 weeks, it changes certain blood chemicals that are linked to liver problems, which helps improve how their liver works.

A special low-carb diet for 12 weeks helps overweight people with diabetes lose fat from their liver, making their liver healthier.

Eating a low-carb diet for 12 weeks helps people with type 2 diabetes and obesity improve how their liver responds to insulin, making it work better without needing to change their medications.

If you're overweight and have type 2 diabetes, cutting back on carbs and eating more protein for 6 weeks can clear more fat from your liver than just eating a normal diabetes diet—even if you lose the same amount of weight. It’s like your liver gets a special boost from fewer carbs.

If you have mild type 2 diabetes, cutting carbs way down — even without changing your calorie intake — might cut liver fat by nearly a third in just three months.

Eating too many sugary or starchy foods and too many calories can make your body less responsive to insulin, which in turn can cause fat to build up in your liver and lead to a condition called fatty liver disease—even if you don’t drink alcohol.