The Claim
In adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes, a 20% reduction in body weight suppresses endogenous glucose production to a similar extent regardless of whether the weight loss is achieved through behavioral diet therapy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
What the research says
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When adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes lose 20% of their body weight, their liver produces less glucose, and this reduction happens to the same degree whether the weight loss comes from diet changes or surgery.
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In adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes, marked weight loss (approximately 20%) reduces endogenous glucose production similarly whether achieved through behavioral diet therapy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, indicating that suppression of liver glucose output is a common effect of weight loss independent of the method used.
When a person loses a large amount of weight, fat inside the liver drops, which allows insulin to work better at telling the liver to stop making sugar. This happens no matter how the weight is lost — whether by eating less or by surgery — because the liver responds to less fat, not to how the weight came off.
What the research says
1 studyWhether people with type 2 diabetes lose weight by eating less or by having surgery, their liver makes less glucose afterward—and this drop is about the same in both cases. The study shows this clearly.
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