fatty-liver
3 stories tagged "fatty-liver"
Nutrition & Food
Your Gut Bacteria Decide Whether Sorbitol Is Harmless or a Liver Problem
Sorbitol was sold for decades as the inert, guilt-free sugar swap. In zebrafish stripped of their gut bacteria, WashU researchers watched the intestine's own sorbitol reach the liver and feed the same fructose-metabolism pathway that packs on liver fat.
Metabolic & WeightBerkeley Dusted Off a Shelved 1970s Fat Compound That Burns Energy Instead of Appetite, and in Mice It Spared the Muscle
GLP-1 drugs quiet your appetite, and along with the fat they can pull out a real chunk of muscle. A shelved acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor from the 1970s went after the other lever, energy burned, and in obese mice it left the lean mass alone.
Metabolic & WeightA Gut Microbe Was Feeding Ammonia to Sick Livers. A Michigan Peptide Cut Off the Supply in Monkeys.
The compound reversed severe fatty liver in monkeys by starving one ammonia-making gut bacterium. It also comes from a company its lead inventor founded, and no human has taken it for this.