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You know, there's this idea that if you have a fatty liver, it's an isolated problem.

It's an individual problem that's probably not related to other organs.

That is actually not quite true.

So if you have a fatty liver, you also have fatty organs.

They should really call a fatty liver just fatty organs because the fat is going to spill

off into your muscles, into your heart and vessels, into the pancreas, into the kidney,

and many other organs.

Now what's the significance of that?

Well, the more fat you have in your organs, the less function you're going to have in those

organs.

And you're also going to get inflammation.

So for example, the more fat in your liver, the less your liver is going to be able to

produce bile, the less your liver is going to be able to convert poisons into harmless

particles, the less the liver is going to make certain proteins in your blood, which

end up giving you edema in your legs, the less the liver is going to make certain clotting

factors and the more you're going to have leading and issues with it.

If you bruise yourself, one of the best predictors for a fatty liver is ALT.

That's a liver enzyme test.

So if you have high ALT as a blood test, chances are you have a fatty liver.

Another good test would be high levels of triglycerides, probably because the body now doesn't

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