Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Risk Factors, Symptoms (ex. Fatigue), Treatment (ex. Coffee)

Lesson on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis): Who is at risk, Pathogenesis, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment and Management. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease is one type of liver disease due to fatty infiltration, eventually leading to hepatitis and scarring of the liver, which is not related to ethanol consumption. Non alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease is due to insulin resistance and its risk factors are associated with insulin resistance. In this lesson we will discuss why this condition occurs, and how insulin resistance causes fatty infiltration and inflammation of the liver. We also discuss signs and symptoms of this condition and what lifestyle modifications we can use to treat it, including non alcoholic fatty liver disease treatments and dietary modifications.

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[Yeon]

I did my blood test yesterday after 5 weeks of 100% no carbohydrates no sugar no fruits no starch no red meat diet. My Liver panel test result shown AST, ALT, GGT level all perfect! Far from its top range. Just 5 weeks. My fatty liver is reversed to healthy normal. I lost 4-5kg just from dieting and stop eating after 7pm till next day lunch. 2 meals a day. Only boiled using water, steam Fish, tofu, cabbage broccoli veggies, chicken breast, black coffee no sugar for afternoon lunch and green tea no sugar during evening dinner not later than 7pm. After 7pm I fast till next day lunch 12pm. The fasting time is extremely important as this time allows digestion and some hunger which makes our body burn the fat within without exercising. Exercising barely able to reach the fat around our liver. So fasting is the effective way. I had No milk (contain high fat and high sugar) . No snacks. No all kind of bread which still are carbohydrates. No cake. No biscuits. No rice. No noodles. No fruits especially as it’s fructose are directly process only by our liver! Just 5 weeks and fatty liver is back to normal with proven liver function blood test compared to my previous test result 5 weeks ago. I feel very lively light and positive. I lost 5kg. Also My cholesterol and sugar level were also extremely good blood test result! I m looking way younger and my body is nicer too. I m 33 years old male. Non smoker non alcoholic. Didn’t work in a toxic environment. I didn’t exercise. But I ate much rice, fatty red meat, and milk and cookies and fruits. I slept late before. Now I kicked those bad habit n bad diet. After recovered from fatty liver, I continue my way of eating n fasting n sleeping time. I reintroduced some healthy carbohydrates back into my diet. Such as some corn carrot, some wheat bread, a little potatoes. Please make sure u do not overdo it. I really mean only some. Lack of discipline and taking it for granted will cause regrets. I’m sharing for mankind and for those who were helpless from useless doctors. And I’m sharing in memory of my late father who passed away due to end stage liver disease.

Months later I did followed up on ultrasound and report shown my liver is perfectly healthy, also my kidney and pancreas and gallbladder. Since then I resume back to normal diet which include some fruits and carbohydrates. I continue to exclude fast food, oily and unhealthy food. Please bear in mind that fruits and carbohydrates must be consume in moderation. And fruits cannot be consume everyday to prevent diabetes!

[dr.rajkumar]

Intermittent fasting and Low Carbohydrate diet are the mainstay treatment.

[Yeon]

FORMULAR TO REVERSE FATTY LIVER. i have fatty liver. my dad have cirrhosis and passed away due to it. i spend months after months testing my diet and studying about nutrition. even the dr here have some error. first of all, make sure u do not suffer gallstones from gall bladder disease which all doctors only tell us to remove our gallbladder which does fix fatty liver at all.. while it is true that fatty liver can be due to liver disease mistaken as "Fat", but 99% of doctors who follow books and each other do not consider deeply from an art perspective that it is actually due to prolonged inflammation due to enzymes not being able to pass down the duct because the duct is obstructed on and off by gallstones. there is such cases whereby gallstones pancreatitis is the cause of liver inflammation. this case, first we need to stop eating high cholesterol food as 80% of stones are form by cholesterol. you can do your research about what food are high cholesterol. if cholesterol and gallstones are NOT the underlying caused of your fatty liver. and ofcos not alcohol then we look at the following... (DO NOT DRINK alcohol as they are turned sugar eventually, if u continue then there is no point studying here, just die eventually). HERE, we focus on the real fatty liver as underlying cause, is due to bad diet and inactive meaning no exercise, stop your excuses and do justice to your own life my friends. the number 1 poor habit we have is eating too much carbohydrates (white bread or even whole meal still have carbohydrates by the way, pasta, noodles, RICE, even brown rice red black ... all rice have carbohydrates, corn, potatoes, cakes, biscuits) these carbohydrates are everywhere out there selling to us just to keep us full but served tiny nutritional benefits to our body. it is just a habit. if you dont understand what is carbohydrates, it is another word glucose, which mean SUGAR! they turned into sugar in our body. more than often, we consumed more than enough carbohydrates and the excess are all unhealthy. supposedly if we exercise, our metabolism increase, and "burn" of calories and glucose in a form of energy. that is fine because it is math. but often we do not exercise, even if you are not obese which i am not, i am slim yet i have fatty liver, i do not drink and smoke ever, i wasnt on any medication, i had no other diseases ! it was because of all sugar, i ate lots n lots of rice! sometimes noodles, and extra bread everyday as snacks with kaya. i eat cookies too.. they are all sugar eventually. i did not exercise at all for years. i eat fatty red meat too. i used oil to cook. but it is actually the carbohydrates that is causing the fatty liver. now i exercise and lost 7 kg. but its no use, because it barely able to directly burn off liver fats even after we lost lots of weights from other part of body fat. the right way instead is to cut off all bread, potatoes, starch, corn, sugar drink, refined sugar, and FRUITS!!! apples, watermelon, banana.... they are high in fructose! which is sugar !! im serious here, cut off fruits ! now, we r left with veggies, tofu, carrots, beans, mushrooms, fish, chicken breast, coffee no sugar, tea no sugar. COFFEE AND GREEN TEA IS EXCELLENT for liver. thats it. seriously.... and boil or steam them only... no oil please. boring isnt it? but you need to reverse your fatty liver back to heathy liver isnt it or die. which do u choose? one way to know is ultrasound, but another is simple blood test for AST AND ALT level ! simple! if they fall back to healthy range, you are likely succeed. just 2-3 months and u can have SIGNIFICANT improvement ! also, you can continue to exercise as it works hand in hand with your diet ! no smoking please at all. stop that lame useless "cool" habit. if your friends smoke, then just don't stay beside. lastly, we need to eat on time, after 7pm, do not eat anything until next afternoon 12pm is best, to allow our body to digest, and to burn off fat, when our body do not source from food intake, it will source from our body fat, that is how without exercising, fat can be reduced. that is a superior way to burn off fat from liver just by fasting! again this is temporarily until you reverse fatty liver. I REPEAT as summary, 1) EXERCISE AND SWEAT IT OUT (BUT EVEN IF YOU EXERCISE BUT EAT LOTS OF SUGAR AND CARBS, IT IS USELESS!). 2) EAT NO CARBOHYDRATES, SUGAR AND FRUITS 3) SLEEP WELL ON TIME SO WE DONT STRESS OUR ORGANS LETTING THEM REST AND HEAL FROM INFLAMMATION 4) EAT AT THE RIGHT TIME TO PREVENT ORGANS FROM NOT ABLE TO REST AND RECOVER FROM INFLAMMATIONS AND TOXINS. 5) FASTING AFTER DINNER TILL NEXT LUNCH, OR AT LEAST NEXT BREAKFAST (NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT OVEREAT TO MAKE UP FOR THE HUNGER, THAT IS FASTING MISTAKE AND WILL BACK FIRE). YOU ARE ALLOW TO DRINK WATER AND MAKE SURE YOU DO. last tips, whole milk are high in sugar and fat too ! you think milk sound good, but not for diabetes and fatty liver patient. also no butter ! and i do not eat egg while trying to reverse my fatty liver. IT WORKS! im sharing you and the world, because i lost my father due to liver problem. and i have fatty liver. we were very uninformed and uneducated with our lifestyle. doctors often just see us 5 mins and we FO. they do not explain to us, they just say its fat. its wrong. its sugar and carbohydrates we do not understand at all. doctors like to condescending us. they feel like they r so high to behave like a real human and we r just another animals from part of their job. TRUST ME, you tell whatever i said to any doctors, they cant disagree, BUT THEY DIDNT and ginger, we must not over consume! while it is good, over consume is too heaty, and liver cant take it! heaty is bad for liver. so dont be theoretical . HERE LETS DO FALL VICTIM TO DOCTORS BUSINESS INTERESTS WHO WANNA PLAY US FOR MONEY. AND PROLONG OUR CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO KNOWS HOW TO REVERSE FATTY LIVER ARE THOSE WHO HAD REVERSED THEIR OWN FATTY LIVER. NOT DOCTORS!

[reginaphalange]

I was just diagnosed, today, with "severe diffuse hepatic steatosis", which I think is NAFLD. I. am overweight and in poor health. I am on several medications for several different problems. Over the last year, I have dealt with my skin itching so badly, that I scratched till I bled. I was worried that all of the pills had destroyed my liver. Now, I know that it's a side-effect of this disease.
P.S. Thank you for the wonderful, and more importantly, highly intelligible video. The few I watched before this one were terrible. They were describing everything, using only the medical community's terminology. I think I'm a fairly smart person, but I was very confused, until I found this video.

[janicep]

I'm surprised none of the liver videos out there mention how dangerous acetaminophen is to the liver. Mixing acetaminophen and alcohol is especially dangerous.

[haleydoe]

I was diagnosed with this at 25, and stopped drinking diet soda. They can no longer find any indication of this disease on imaging.

[DrippleDragon]

I’m 23 and was diagnosed with fatty liver (from too much Tylenol), somethings that helped me feel so much better 4 days in already is more fruits, cutting off fast food/fried foods, drinking green tea, stopped taking pills/medication and exercise (I do core and ab and muscle workouts every morning and before I go to sleep and I jog every morning)

[leahgopaul]

I had acute fatty liver disease during pregnancy, although i struggled, both my baby and I survived

[es]

I just got diagnosed with this today, I quit drinking 2 years ago only to get NAFLD I am gonna have to loose weight but I hadn’t felt well in 6 months didn’t see this coming.

[EnigmaCodeCrusher]

Why not mention the reduction in sugar consumption as a treatment?

[lollifrances]

Most of the people that are overweight would love to lose it. If they have insulin resistance you can’t just say lose weight and drink coffee. I had NASH/fibrosis for a few years before it was discovered. I saw 2 different gastroenterologists who both failed to diagnose me. It wa my endocrinologist that did. She put me on Metformin even though I never reached the point of how the medical community currently defines diabetes. The Metformin caused me to lose 10lbs of water weight in one week and 20lbs in one month. After researching I learned that corn syrup is in virtually every processed food in America. So I stopped eating everything except meat and veggies. Eventually I started eating only one meal a day 5 days a week. I lost 55lbs and per my last ultrasound markedly improved my liver. I had to get healthy to lose weight, not the other way around. And NO supplements. My liver specialist advised not to use anting because the aren’t regulated and we don’t know what’s in them.

[theOlLineRebel]

What about Tamoxifen? Breast-cancer medication? I’ve heard it can lead to this. I definitely have fatty liver and it seems to have coincided with using Tamoxifen.

[analitoiglesia]

I have a moderate fatty liver at age 32, but my internist doctor avoided me to drink coffee and milk? But in this case, while I viewed this video you have to drink coffee 3cups a day as a benefit? Meanwhile my doctor prescribed me a medicine like Hepatik and Omeprazole.

[traleyton]

Very Good - Plain and simple easy to undertsand.

[shreyathakur]

My cousin had liver disease from last 5 years. His SGOT and SGPT level was high. Took medicines from everywhere but no relief was found. Then he took Ayurvedic medicine from Chandigarh Ayurved Centre. Now he is feeling good. Thanks

[jamiemc]

I was diagnosed with this after keeping a pain in my right side for 6 months, I was told it was a pulled muscle. After starting a health diet how long until my pain goes away

[rafiqrehman]

My friend after two months I became normal (allhamdullah )
I give you tips. 1 use ispaghol (psyllium husk) two time .used fish oil tablet 2 time. Vitamin E 2 time. Cut off all carbohydrates just use salad and oats.🤗.just two months be normal (inshallah )

[finnicvoice]

Got diagnosed with fatty liver about a year ago. I made some changes in my diet, started exercising and lost 11 kgs. I just went to have my bloodwork done, I hope the results are positive.

[tulinbeyduz]

I have chronic lose oily stools for 6 years . I do have hashimotos disease. I’m 5’3 and 65 kilos . I also get nausea . I’ve taken tablets for parasite but to no avail . Chronic oily stools and indigestion pieces . My dr just tells me I have IBS . I’m worried long term I’m going to have issues … :(…. Help … ? I am addicted to caffeine and Coke Zero could this be the culprit

[zainabndakun]

Thank you doctor for this video. I was diagnosed of fatty liver grade 3 a month ago. And am so afraid I might come down with full liver cancer. Am on intermittent fasting and eat just once a day. I live more on water for energy. Doctor, can mine be reversed with these lifestyle changes? I have lost about 4kg in just a month. My body itches so much. I used to have severe weakness of my joints especially my legs. But since I changed my diet and started water fasting I noticed that the joints pains has reduced alot.