Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease

Carolyn Gretton

The evening habit that increases serious liver trouble by 30%

Your liver could pay a price for something a lot of us do almost every evening. A study involving nearly 200,000 people uncovered a troubling connection to serious liver disease. The encouraging news? A surprisingly simple change may help protect this vital organ.

Margaret Cantwell

What depression, sleep apnea and migraines may reveal about your liver

Depression, sleep apnea and migraines may seem to have little in common. But their surprising connection to a silent health problem affecting nearly 30% of adults worldwide challenges what we thought we knew about who’s most at risk.

Joyce Hollman

The metabolic link between microplastics and fatty liver

Microplastics are nearly impossible to avoid. But research suggests they may do the most damage when they encounter a liver already struggling with fat, inflammation and poor metabolic health. Here’s how to strengthen your defenses and reduce your exposure.

Carolyn Gretton

The fiber that could stave off liver damage

High fructose corn syrup isn’t healthy, in the least. But the damage it can do to our livers, without a single symptom, should be criminal. Protection against, and even reversal of, fatty liver could lie in the right fiber…

Joyce Hollman

Diabetes + obesity = a recipe for serious liver damage

Metabolic syndrome can lead to serious trouble impacting different organs in the body. But it’s the combination of diabetes and obesity that can wreak significant harm on the liver. Here’s what you need to know…

Joyce Hollman

Trouble sleeping? It could lead to liver disease

Fatty liver has a new name that recognizes its ties to metabolic dysfunction. That means high cholesterol, blood sugar and belly fat can foreshadow liver trouble. But poor sleep could be a common factor that brings it all together…