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.

If you're an adult with mild type 2 diabetes, switching to a keto diet for 12 weeks might lower a fat in your blood linked to liver fat, more than a low-fat diet would.

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

In mice, eating a super high-fat, very low-carb diet causes fat to build up quickly in the liver — way more than with other diets — which could be harmful.

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.

If you're overweight and have fatty liver, going on a keto diet for just 6 days might cut the fat in your liver by over a quarter—even if you barely lose any weight.