Overcoming Liver Disease With A Fatty Liver Diet

Did your doctor give you a diagnosis of fatty liver? If so, did he also give you information about a fatty liver diet?

Most medical doctors aren’t up to date on the latest nutritional therapies for fatty liver, so it’s best to do your own research and start reversing the condition. You’ll get the basic principles here.

Overall Strategy for Overcoming a Fatty Liver

You don’t have to be an alcohol drinker to end up with a fatty liver. A B vitamin deficiency can cause it, and a deficiency in antioxidants could facilitate it. A fatty liver is more apt to occur in those who are overweight, experiencing insulin resistance, and/or are already diabetic.

Eating too much of the wrong fats in the diet may be a culprit, too – and there are plenty of animal studies that overfeed fats just to create a fatty liver, and then use different substances to attempt to reverse it.

B Vitamins and Antioxidants

With this in mind, let’s start with the vitamin and antioxidant component. Are you getting enough B vitamins? Don’t expect that you are if you aren’t taking a supplement of the B complex. Make sure that your B complex includes choline and inositol, as choline deficiency is a sure path to create fatty liver. The inositol works along with the choline and must be with it; otherwise you’ll induce a deficiency of inositol.

One good way to check to see if your B complex is adequate is to check for biotin. A supplement that only offers 10% or 33% of the biotin for the day is not one put together with your best interests in mind. Don’t settle for anything less than 100% of the biotin you need daily.

Next are the antioxidants. If you check your multivitamin/mineral tablet label, you may find what many others are finding – the vitamin A has been replaced by beta-carotene. This is mostly because beta-carotene is more economical.

However, the problem with this is that beta-carotene is a precursor for the active vitamin A and it is not easily converted to vitamin A in the body in diabetics and others. Vitamin A is one of your most important vitamins for antioxidant power. You may want to take a few 10,000 IU pearls of vitamin A per week to ensure consumption of enough to boost your antioxidant functions.

Vitamin D, vitamin E, and vitamin C are also needed to protect your liver. Vitamin D deficiency is found in two-thirds or more of the population, so get your levels checked. They should be around 55 or 60 ng/dL on a scale of 0-100. Vitamin E can reverse scarring and fibrosis so don’t be afraid of it. And vitamin C is yet another antioxidant that has its own antioxidant functions and also prevents the other antioxidants from being destroyed.

Your fatty liver diet thus should contain foods that are high in B vitamins (vegetables, animal proteins) and antioxidants (fruits, berries, superfruits, olive oil, and avocado). Eating them as close to their natural state as possible is always preferred.

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