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May 6, 2024

Do You Have a Friend With Fatty Liver?

Fatty liver can be reversed in days to weeks with a ketogenic diet. Dr. Ken Berry shares the evidence.

Do You Have a Friend With Fatty Liver?

Do you have a friend with fatty liver? They can fix it in days to weeks with keto.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease — NAFLD — develops when the liver is overwhelmed by excess fructose and carbohydrates that it converts into fat and stores within its own cells. The good news is that the liver is extraordinarily resilient. When you dramatically cut carbohydrates, the liver stops receiving the flood of substrate it was using to manufacture fat. It begins burning through its stored fat at a remarkable rate. Many patients see measurable improvement on ultrasound within two to four weeks of starting a well-formulated ketogenic diet.

If someone you care about has been told they have fatty liver, elevated liver enzymes, or early NASH, share this with them. The standard advice — "eat less fat, lose weight gradually" — is the slowest and least effective path. A low-carbohydrate or ketogenic approach targets the root cause directly and produces results that are hard to argue with. Talk to a physician who understands metabolic nutrition, get a baseline ultrasound, and start cutting carbs today.