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In people with fatty liver disease, the liver makes way more of its own fat from scratch than it should, but the fat we eat or that’s in our blood doesn’t change — it’s the liver’s internal fat factory going into overdrive.
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Role of Dietary Fructose and Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Fatty Liver Disease
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2016 MayThis study shows that in people with fatty liver disease, the liver makes way more of its own fat (from sugar like fructose) than usual, while fat from food and blood doesn’t change much — which is exactly what the claim says.
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