Having a fatty liver should be taken seriously. Not enough people know that it’s a big cancer risk factor. A healthy liver protects your immune system. If your liver is fatty and inflamed, metabolic wastes and toxins can accumulate in your bloodstream. A fatty liver also produces high levels of inflammatory chemicals. Chronic inflammation is a cancer risk factor.

Fatty liver disease is one of the most prevalent chronic liver diseases in the world. Currently it affects approximately 25.2 percent of the world’s population. The disease spectrum ranges from non alcoholic fatty liver to non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventually in some people, the development of liver cancer. It’s not just cancer in the liver you need to be worried about though.

Fatty liver raises the risk of these 7 types of cancer:

  • Colorectal
  • Esophagus
  • Stomach
  • Pancreas
  • Cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile ducts)
  • Kidney
  • Breast

Risk factors for developing a fatty liver include sedentary lifestyle, obesity, sugar and seed oils, sarcopenia (loss of muscle), insulin resistance, genetic susceptibility and overgrowth of bad gut bugs. Fatty liver raises the risk of many diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients with a fatty liver, but as you can see, the risk of cancer is also high. If diagnosed with cancer, the prognosis is poorer in a person with a fatty liver compared to one with a healthy liver. Chemotherapy and targeted therapies for cancer can often cause liver inflammation, and this means treatment may need to be halted. People with a fatty liver may already have raised liver enzymes, so they are less able to tolerate cancer treatment.

Do you have a fatty liver?

Many people have an unhealthy liver and don’t know about it. This is because fatty liver often produces no symptoms at all, or the symptoms are very mild. People with a fatty liver are usually overweight in their abdominal area, they may be tired and bloated and feel intolerant of the heat.

Women with a fatty liver often suffer debilitating hot flashes at menopause, but put the symptom down to a lack of hormones and take HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). This usually fixes the hot flashes but may increase the risk of breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer.  It is much healthier to just address the cause of the problem: a fatty liver.

If people become more aware that a fatty liver is a major risk factor for cancer, strokes, heart attacks and diabetes, hopefully they will be more motivated to try and reverse it. The good news is fatty liver is reversible in the vast majority of cases; you just have to know which eating plan is best.

The book Fatty Liver: You Can Reverse It contains a comprehensive plan to help you achieve just that. It can be difficult to stick to a healthy diet if you have a fatty liver. This is because your liver finds it harder to regulate your blood sugar. That means hypoglycemia, intense sugar cravings and low energy are more likely to occur. The herbs and nutrients in Glicemic Balance help to stabilize your blood sugar and reduce those symptoms.

Having a fatty liver means there is a great deal of inflammation inside your liver and this inflammation causes damage to liver cells as well as other organs and tissues of the body. This greatly compromises the ability of your healthy cells to function. It makes it harder for your liver to burn fat and detoxify your bloodstream. A good liver tonic like Livatone Plus will help to improve the health of your liver cells.

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The above statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease.