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Received: 11 December 2024

Accepted: 25 April 2025

First Online: 9 July 2025

Acknowledgements

: We express our deepest gratitude to all participants in the study for their time and effort.

: Raw data are not publicly available to preserve participants’ privacy. They can be accessed in the form of a justified request via the directory of the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland ().

: Open access funding provided by University of Bern. This research was funded in whole or in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (32003B_185019). The funding body played no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, writing of the report or decision to submit the article for publication.

: The authors declare that there are no relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.

: AG and NS were entrusted with participant recruitment, performed study interventions, completed electronic case report form (eCRF), interpreted data and wrote the manuscript. AL was the study statistician and contributed to the composition of the manuscript. DM provided laboratory analysis and contributed to the composition of the manuscript. AM and ML developed the study design, were entrusted with the supervision of the project, performed experimental visits, interpreted data, completed eCRFs and wrote the manuscript. All authors were included in reviewing the content and in approving the final version to be published. ML is the guarantor of this trial, who undertook the responsibility for the conduct of the study and the data acquired and controlled the final decision to publish.