FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to endocrinology, and can be used to reduce glucose levels in a subject. This method includes providing the subject with a low-protein diet containing less than 10 % of calories from protein sources for the first time period of 5 to 14 days. Then, the subjects is on the second diet during the second period of time after the low-protein diet, where the second diet provides a total calorie intake within 20 % of the subject’s normal calorie intake, for 25-26 days. If it is determined that the decrease in levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-I) is insufficient, the diet with low protein content is adjusted in such a way as to provide even lower amounts of calories per protein source.
EFFECT: use of the invention allows to reduce the level of glucose and IGF-I by reducing the protein content in the diet.
21 cl, 34 dwg, 7 tbl
