Fatty Liver and 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.

24 years old Fatty Liver patient






Few hours later I sent him the following answer:


Have you performed any abdominal ultrasound test for fatty liver diagnosis?



Waiting for your reply.
Dr. Mark Bar-Gomel

David replied:


My report produced from the ultrasound is as follows:

No hepatic mass or intrahepatic biliary ductal dilatation is seen. The

hepatic lesion or intrahepatic biliary ductal dilatation is seen.


My answer to him:



Fatty Liver and Weight Loss


Why weight loss is important in Fatty Liver







Fatty Liver Causes

There are two types of fatty liver – one that develops due to excessive consumption of alcohol, and the other that develops in non-drinkers, after an excessive amounts of fat buildup around the liver.

Alcoholic Fatty Liver

Chronic alcoholism can lead to a slow and progressive liver failure. This is known as one of the two common fatty liver causes, because the first phase of an alcoholic liver diseases will probably be an Alcoholic liver disease (also called “alcoholic steatosis”).

The damage is usually reversible if the patient becomes determined and abstinent. But with continued drinking, the result could be unfortunate. When this happens, liver cells gradually die and will be replaced by scar tissue. Excessive amounts of scar tissue can lead to a liver failure and/or Cirrhosis.

Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

The second fatty liver type and by large a more common one, is a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Until couple of year ago, it was believed that a non-alcoholics fatty liver was just a symptom of being overweight, or a diabetic. But studies from years ago have concluded that a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a completely different disease, which can lead to serious consequences if untreated. The most common causes of the disease are:

  • Bad Food habits – eating high-fat concentrated, fried food with high cholesterol; “fast food”; sugar rich snacks.
  • Lack or very low physical activity.
  • Being overweight or obese.

Non-alcholic Fatty Liver Disease and Cirrhosis Progression

NAFLD includes two different levels

  • Simple Fatty Liver (steatosis)
    This is caused due to the deposition of fats in the liver. It usually does not lead to liver inflammation or scar tissue, and the risk of progressive liver damage is relatively low. There are no identified symptoms for simple fatty liver.
  • NASH (Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis)
    In NASH, besides the excess of fat, there are some signs of inflammation and the liver cells are dying (necrosis).

NASH considered to be more severe than other forms of Non-Alcoholic fatty liver. This is because the simple fact that liver cells are dying. Patients who suffer from NASH are one stage closer to liver cirrhosis. In the United Status, NASH is now considered to be the 3rd most common cause of liver disease in adults (followed by hepatitis C and alcohol). This is most popular cause of liver disease among adolescents.

How common is a Fatty Liver?

So how really common is fatty liver? It’s more common than you think.

Just is the United States, fatty liver is undoubtedly the most popular cause of elevated liver enzymes (ALT) found in a liver function blood test. It now affects around 25% of all adult Americans.

Even though any person can have a fatty liver, the typical patient is expected to be overweight or obese.

In many cases, patients also suffer from elevated levels of triglyceride and cholesterol in the blood; but consuming fatty foods is not the only direct cause of fatty liver.

Fatty Liver is thought to be more common in men than in women, but it effects both sexes. Consuming excessive amounts of alcohol can increase the chances of developing an alcoholic fatty liver.

Until now, heredity was not found to play a significant role in the disease, so it is not passed from parent to child.