Dr. Ron Najafi compares normal and diseased liver tissue, showing how fatty liver disease now affects 25% of children, many of them non-obese. The condition was once linked to alcohol but now appears in people with no alcohol exposure, raising questions about what metabolic factors are causing it.
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Dr. Ron Najafi
August 24, 2024
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Here's a histological micrograph of.
Normal liver.
And you can see the sinusoids and the biocanalliculi.
And the Kupfer cells.
All nicely ordered. And over here we.
Have fatty liver disease.
The fat vacuoles and the beginning of scarring. You can see all the macrophages.
Infiltrating.
Now prior to 1980, if you saw this under the.
Microscope.
That was alcohol.
Alcoholic fatty liver disease.
The problem is if you look at this in 25% of children you will see the same thing. And children don't drink alcohol and that is called non alcoholic.
Fatty liver disease.
Or now a new name, metabolically associated.
Fatty liver disease.
So nafld maffled all the same. So the question is how come something that causes disease in alcoholics is causing disease in children? What's that about? What's the exposure there? Because everyone's got it. 45% of adults have non.
Alcoholic fatty.
Liver disease, 25% of children. Now I didn't say obese. Total.