Figure 7.

BHB concentrations of subjects in a very low carbohydrate diet program after one year. 349 subjects with T2D enrolled and after one year, 218 of them remained enrolled. Each day, participating subjects consumed 30 g of carbohydrates, 1.5 g/kg of protein, and fat ad lib for satiety. Mean BHB concentrations in the blood increased from baseline 0.18 mmol/L to 0.31 mmol/L at one year and remained elevated at 0.27 mmol/L at 2 years (BHB concentration after one year is not shown in the figure). 62% of subjects uploaded a BHB concentration above 0.5 mmol/L at least once. Figure modified from Hallberg et al ¹¹⁷ under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.