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Alternate-day fasting could be a good option for patients with fatty liver disease (With exercise)
Medical Xpress / University of Illinois at Chicago / Cell Metabolism ^ | Feb 14, 2023 | Mark Ezpeleta et al

Posted on 02/15/2023 4:14:10 PM PST by ConservativeMind

Nutrition researchers studied 80 people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and found those who followed an alternate-day fasting diet and exercised were able to improve their health.

The researchers report that over a period of three months people who exercised and alternated feast and fast days—eating without restriction one day and eating 500 calories or fewer the next—saw increased insulin sensitivity and decreased liver fat, weight and ALT, or alanine transaminase enzymes, which are markers for liver disease.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a buildup of fat and inflammation in patients who drink little to no alcohol. Approximately 65% of obese adults have the disease, and this condition is strongly related to the development of insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.

Study author Krista Varady called the findings "pretty amazing."

Participants in the clinical trial were randomized to one of four groups: an alternate-day fasting group, an aerobic exercise group, a combined group and a control group in which participants made no changes to their behaviors. Participants in the diet groups tracked their food intake and participants in the exercise groups used an elliptical machine in Varady's lab for one hour, five days a week.

Varady said the study did not test if alternate-day fasting was better or worse than other diets when combined with exercise, but she was surprised to see very few participants drop out of the study.

In addition to seeing improved metabolic indicators, the study authors also noted there were no serious safety events during the trial—the patients were able to safely maintain the diet and exercise for the three-month study.

"Our findings also indicate that the combination intervention was effective for reducing body weight, fat mass, waist circumference, ALT, fasting insulin, insulin resistance, and increasing insulin sensitivity, among patients with obesity and NAFLD, versus controls."

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It looks like all the health indicators that normally matter got better, fastest, when the diet was combines with exercise.

Alternate-day fasting is actually not that hard, because you still east 500 calories on your fast day.

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See Pantethine (pantethic acid) for non-prescription treatment of fatty liver. Derivative of vitamin b-5. Interesting results from several studies.


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