Common liver diseases with no early symptoms often go undetected. This vitamin supplement rides to the rescue.

You probably have no idea what shape your liver is in. Most of us don’t. Symptoms of liver problems usually go undetected – until they reach a crisis stage.

The crisis is called NASH. That’s nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. It’s the serious inflammation stage between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cirrhosis. Just beyond that is liver failure.

But let’s not go there. Let’s back up to the beginning.

As I’ve often mentioned, NAFLD is a silent disease. It’s characterized by excess belly fat. But there are no symptoms. Not at first, anyway. There’s no pain. So it often progresses to NASH undetected.

There are two ways to avoid NAFLD and NASH.

First, exercise regularly and avoid junk food – especially foods with added sugars.

Second, take a vitamin E supplement.

A new study shows that E supplementation reduces triglyceride fat in the liver. That’s huge. Triglyceride accumulation is what gets NAFLD started in the first place.

E supplements also inhibit liver scarring. That’s also huge. Scarring leads to cirrhosis and liver failure.

This animal study confirms human research I told you about two years ago. Researchers gave 250 NASH patients 800 IU of E daily for two years.

NASH markers improved significantly in more than 40 percent of subjects.

If you’re taking a good quality E supplement (with mixed tocopherols), you’re already doing your liver a world of good.

Sources:
“Effects of tocotrienol on tumor necrosis factor-a/d-galactosamine-induced steatohepatitis in rats” Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition, Vol. 52, No. 2, March 2013, jstage.jst.go.jp

“Pioglitazone, Vitamin E, or Placebo for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis” New England Journal of Medicine, Published online ahead of print 4/28/10, content.nejm.org