Challenging Fatty Liver Disease Treatment: The Power of Low-Carb, High-Fat Diets with Dr. Ben Bikman

So much of what we think we understand about metabolic health is just wrong. For example, fatty liver disease. Fatty liver disease has traditionally been treated through avoiding dietary fat and generally eating a high carb diet. This study, just published this week, is further evidence of just how terrible that strategy is. In this study, people with confirmed fatty liver disease were put on two different diets that had the exact same amount of calories for just a few days. They were either put on a low carb, high fat diet or a high carb, low fat diet. Again, same calories. Interestingly, as you see here in the results, the high carb, low fat diet, which is again, the standard dietary advice that people are given all the time, even with fatty liver disease, elicited no improvement in the amount of fat in the liver. In other words, at the end of those days on that diet, high carb, low fat, the liver was just as fat as it was before. In contrast, after just a few days of the low carb, high fat diet, even though they were eating the same amount of calories, their liver fat went down by a third, a substantial and meaningful reduction in liver fat. By eating more fat. Remember, you burn what you eat.