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

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.

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.

For overweight people with a fatty liver condition, following a very low-carb, low-calorie diet for 8 weeks can cut down the fat in their liver by about two-thirds.

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.