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This is a very interesting topic.

I found a study that demonstrated that you could actually reduce your liver fat by almost

50% in just two weeks, and I'm not kidding, this is not a joke, this is a credible study.

There was a 14-day intervention study putting people on a carbohydrate-restrictive diet.

This is called the ketogenic diet, where they consumed less than 30 grams of carbohydrates

per day.

And this demonstrated decreased liver fat by 43.8%.

So it's not actually 50%, but it's close, in subjects with obesity and NAFLD.

What is that?

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Now there's several other interesting things about this.

Number one, there wasn't much weight loss.

On average, there was only like a 1.8% weight loss, which is pretty insignificant.

And there was no change in waist circumference.

Now this is very good information to know, because if you start a ketogenic diet and you

loss hardly any weight the first week, and there's no change in your waist, you might

just quit and think it's not working, but apparently the body gets rid of liver fat,

an organ fat, as a priority before it goes after other types of fat.

And apparently, the loss of liver fat was due to decreased something called denovolipogenesis.

What is that?

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