Fatty Liver

Fatty Liver has a lot of effects on someone who has it. Some are direct effects that you know about, and many are indirect effects that affect your life with you even knowing about it.

It’s very important to understand these effects and knowing them, but they are not to be afraid off. To fight the disease and cure it, you must understand the effects fatty liver could have in your health and your life-style.

Health Effects of Fatty Liver

Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver by itself doesn’t have a lot of health effects. In fact, many people have fatty liver for years without even knowing about it. The problem starts with its implications if it’s not treated.

If not treated, fatty liver could have severe complications, and develop into a more serious disease, such as Acute Fatty Liver, Hepatitis, Cirrhosis, and others liver diseases.

Effect of Fatty Liver that change your life-style

Food & Drinks
The most obvious effect fatty liver has, is that you pretty much immediately change your eating habits.

Many used to eat and drink whatever that want because they felt it doesn’t hurt anything. After knowing that the food you eat is a major factor in fatty liver development, you immendialy start to be aware of the different food types, and eat healthier food.

There is no way running from it. If you want to cure a fatty liver, changing your eating habits is a must have step, and this is one of the biggest effects of fatty liver.

Exercise
About the same effect as food. Physical activity is very important when treating a fatty liver. You might not be used to do any exercise, but physical activity is a crucial part of fatty liver treatment. A effect on your life is that you actually need to make up free time at least 3 times a week for your exercise.

“I’m not Healthy”
This is a very common psychological effect. You are not used to be “sick” or with a disease. And now the fact that you have ones, makes you think you’re not a healthy man you think you were. Although part of it might be true, you need to remember that fatty liver is reversible. So becoming a healthy person once again is not an impossible task.

Worrying more about sickness and diseases
You might haven’t noticed it, but most of the people I know who have or had a fatty liver disease, now worry more about sickness and diseases, even though it has nothing to do with fatty liver. This type of behavior is usually related to the thinking that you’re weak and vulnerable, because you had a fatty liver.

Triglycerides is known as a very common blood test and is tested almost in all blood tests people are taking.

The reason for this is because it gives a very good indication that something is wrong.

If someone has high triglycerides, it can be a sign to a wide range of heart diseases, but also some liver diseases as-well.

Having high Triglycerides basically mean your blood contains high level of fat. The main cause of high levels of fat in the blood is bad eating habits.

Usually, along with high triglycerides, people also have high levels of bad Cholesterol (LDL), but not in all cases.

High Triglycerides and Fatty Liver relation

One of the main causes for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is bad eating habits, that increases your fat level in your body. And a very good indication for this is high Triglycerides levels in the blood test results.

Along with elevated levels of liver enzymes, such as ALT and AST, people with fatty liver will also have increased level of Triglycerides, that can give even more indication of fatty liver existence.

How to Lower your Triglycerides level

The best way to lower Triglycerides in the blood is by targeting the cause of it – bad eating habits. Eat healthy food and limit yourself of food with high levels of fat.

Start a diet for fatty liver, and read the many articles we have about Food and Diet, and take control of what you eat. Make sure you take a blood test about every month, to monitor your progress.

You can find a good list of food you should and shouldn’t eat is in here, that contains the absolute recommended foods for fatty liver.

One month ago one of my patients was diagnosed with hepatomegaly (enlarged liver) with fat. At that time, his liver function blood test showed ALT values of 133, and AST 57.

My recommendation to him was to start a fatty liver diet program, and mild physical activity, like walking for 1 hour for 3 times a week.

One month was passed, and now his blood test shows a decreased ALT level – 79, and a decreased AST level -  37. This is extremely good results for such short period of time.

This means that the treatment actually works. ALT and AST values are effected pretty fast when the body receives different, healthy type of food. In a matter of 2-3 month, a new blood test would hopefully reveal these enzymes at their normal levels.

It is extremely important to monitor your progress through taking a new blood test about about 3 weeks. It gives a lot of motivation and keeps you in track.

Keeping normal ALT and AST ratios

Getting decreased ALT and AST levels to normal levels is one thing – but keeping at these levels are completely different task. There is a need to continue eating food with low fat, doing exercise, and generally watch your health and maintaining a healthy life-style.

Even if the blood test would show perfectly normal results, it can be deceiving, because your liver is still fatty. It doesn’t go away that soon. It takes few years at least. The best way to confirm if you still have a fatty liver is a combination of blood test AND a liver ultrasound.

Keep in mind that you will probably need to keep a healthy life-style all of your life, because your liver is vulnerable for fatty liver.

Although there are no absolute indication that Ayurvedic medicine is effective against fatty liver disease, many researches around the world believe that Ayurvedic herbs could actually help.

Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient way to remove toxins from the body by using plant-based (Herbs) medicine as treatment for many diseases.

It is known to help cleanse (detox) the body for many toxins; and for this reason exactly, it is considered especially effective again liver disorders, like fatty liver.

In addition, Ayurvedic based treatment could also help against obesity and over-weightiness. As you might already know, being over-weight is one of the main reasons of why fatty liver is developed at the first place. Treating this factor could help in fatty liver treatment.

Common Ayurvedic Herbs

• Phyllanthus Amarus
• Phyllanthus Niruri
• Eclipta Alba
• Turmeric

These herbs are usually sold as pills. I would highly advise consulting with a physician prior taking any of these medications.

Ayurvedic herbs are not fully researched, so please bear in mind that their effectiveness are not fully understood. Anyone with fatty liver should start treatment it with known methods, as mentioned here.

Ayurvedic medicine for fatty liver could only assist, but it cannot replace the known accepted fatty liver treatments. In addition, if you’re serious about natural treatment for fatty liver, I highly recommend the Natural Fatty Liver Solution guide from Duncan Capicchiano N.D.

A recent study done in Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in South Korea, found that people who were diagnosed with fatty liver, have also an increased chance to for Type 2 Diabetes.

This is quite a significant find, because until now it was believed that a Fatty Liver could be a side effect of other diseases, but this research clearly shows that a fatty liver can actually endorse serious conditions, like Diabetes.

Why Fatty Liver and Diabetes are related?

The main reason that fatty liver can promote diabetes development is because fatty liver has many properties that are shared with Diabetes, like excess weight, metabolic abnormalities, and high glucose & triglyceride levels in the blood.

The research has found that 27% of the people with diabetes also have a Fatty Liver, and concluded that fatty liver is the most common disease shared with diabetes.

This doesn’t mean that a fatty liver is a direct cause of diabetes, but it does suggest that a fatty liver could be an important sign of diabetes development.

What does this mean about me?

This is one more reason to cure a fatty liver as soon as you’re diagnosed, or even better prevent fatty liver development at the first place. Diabetes is just one example of serious diseases that has relation to fatty liver. We are still unaware of the full list of potential conditions and diseases that are somehow related to a fatty liver.

In addition, if you do have Diabetes, I highly recommend getting The Diabetes Reversing guide by Matt Traverso. It helped many of my own patients.

Scientific facts indicating the health benefits many vegetable have are now bigger than ever. Not just for fatty liver, but for a long list of disease and conditions.

The secret of vegetables is the combination of fiber, minerals, vitamins and various unique active compounds which create together a powerful synergy.

Consumption of varied vegetables from different “families” and colors ensures a good balance between the different components needed by your body, and achieving various health benefits, including help curing a fatty liver.

What about Frozen Vegetables, are they healthy?

Frozen vegetables go through a process of scalding and freezing few hours after harvest, compared with fresh vegetables that sold in market days after harvest.

The freezing condition of the vegetables has a significant implications for the conservation and vitamins.  The lower the freezing temperature is, so the preservation of vitamins during the freeze gets better. In general, vegetables are kept frozen at about minus 86 °F (or 30 °C).

The fiber content in vegetables is not damaged at all by the freezing process, and even found a small increase in their contents.

The mineral content of vegetables is not affected as-well by the freezing process. Moreover, frozen vegetables require a shorter cooking time than fresh vegetables, and thus have significant impact of the antioxidant vitamins passed through the cooking compared to when you cook fresh vegetables.

Another advantage of frozen vegetables is that they are available all year round. However, frozen vegetables lose some of their essential nutritional compounds during harvest, storage, and marketing. So the initial nutritional compounds found in fresh vegetables might be a little higher than in frozen vegetables.

List of Vegetables for Fatty Liver

• Onion – high levels of vitamin C and dietary fiber.
• Broccoli – high levels of vitamin C, dietary fiber, protein, and anti-cancer components.
• Cabbage – Contains multiple anti-inflammatory components, and very high levels of vitamin C.
• Carrot – excellent source of vitamin A and dietary fiber.
• Tomato – contains Lycopene, a very powerful natural antioxidant.
• Peppers – great source of vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C.
• Garlic – high levels of vitamin C, fights high cholesterol and blood pressure, and cancer.
• Beet – known to be good against diseases related to digestion system, like fatty liver.

You might also be interested to read about the recommended foods for fatty liver and fruits for fatty liver.