Eating fewer carbs and more protein for a week might help turn off fat-making genes and turn on fat-burning and metabolism genes in the livers of obese people with fatty liver disease.

If you're an obese adult with fatty liver, going on a low-carb diet for just two weeks—even without cutting calories—might slash your liver's fat production by nearly 80% and boost fat burning in your body by almost 5 times.

If you're an obese adult with fatty liver, how much folate is in your blood might help explain how much fat is in your liver — and it could account for nearly 1 in 5 cases, even after considering body weight.

If you're an obese adult with fatty liver disease, switching to a very low-carb, high-fat diet for just two weeks might cut your liver fat by nearly half—and you could see improvements in as little as one day.

People with fatty liver disease make more of their own fat inside the liver than healthy people—about 23% of the fat in their liver comes from this internal process, compared to just 10% in people without the disease.

If you're an obese adult with fatty liver disease, switching to a low-carb, higher-protein diet for just two weeks might quickly boost good gut bacteria that make folate—and your blood folate levels could go up in as little as one day.