Symptoms, conditions and causes
What are some unexpected signs of fatty liver?
Liver functions:
• Makes bile
• Makes proteins
• Makes cholesterol
• Makes glucose + glycogen
• Turns ammonia into urea
• Detoxifies certain things like chemicals, poisons, drugs, etc.
• Buffers excess hormones
3 weird fatty liver symptoms:
1. Heart pain
2. Gynecomastia (the liver can’t filter out excessive amounts of estrogen)
3. Night blindness
*Fibroscan – a scan to check if you have a fatty liver, scar tissue, or fibrosis.
Causes of a fatty liver:
• Gastric bypass
• An extremely low protein diet
• Drugs – steroids
• Viruses
• High insulin – carbs (most common cause)
Last updated: Jul 24, 2023 14:07 PM