When your liver gets fatty, it releases a protein called Fetuin-A that messes up the pancreas’s ability to release insulin when blood sugar rises—this happens through a specific cellular glitch, not the usual inflammation pathway.

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Metabolic crosstalk between fatty pancreas and fatty liver: effects on local inflammation and insulin secretion

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2017 Nov

The study shows that a protein called fetuin-A, released by a fatty liver, stops insulin-producing cells in the pancreas from working properly by messing with calcium and activating JNK — not through TLR4 — just like the claim says.

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Metabolic crosstalk between fatty pancreas and fatty liver: effects on local inflammation and insulin secretion

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DOI: 10.1007/s00125-017-4385-1

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When your liver and pancreas get fatty, a protein called Fetuin-A wakes up immune cells in the pancreas, making them pump out a chemical that causes swelling and irritation—kind of like a false alarm that turns into a local riot.

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