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Livers are actually really incredible at healing themselves. Hepatic steatosis, whether alcohol related or otherwise, can be reversed. For deathfats with hepatic steatosis (NAFLD), weight loss and dietary modification are the primary treatment strategies.The real ticking timebomb for the HAES/FA set is when the chronic non-alcoholic fatty liver disease sets in. There’s no undoing that outside of a partial or full liver transplant. Have any of the more visible spoonie lunatics mentioned having that yet?
Kind of shocked my favorite fat ass failure Boogie1488 hasn’t come down with that yet for sympathy points from his dwindling fan base. That bum needing a partial (or likely full) liver transplant to keep stealing oxygen would be peak societal leeching.
If hepatic steatosis is not addressed promptly, the accumulated fat in the liver causes inflammation, which is known as steatohepatitis. Eventually, this chronic inflammation kills normal hepatocytes (liver cells), which are subsequently replaced by fibrotic scar tissue. The remaining healthy liver tissue is able to compensate to a point, but if damage continues unchecked, the scar tissue interferes with the function of the organ. Cirrhosis is the term for this irreversible scarring of the liver.
Almost 20% of Americans have NAFLD. It's often asymptomatic. Were I a betting person, I'd put good money on Boogie and basically all of the other deathfats having some degree of fatty changes of the liver. Not everyone with hepatic steatosis will go on to develop NASH, and not all patients with NASH end up with cirrhosis. Liver failure is an absolutely horrible way to die, and the remedy is so simple.