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If someone has mild type 2 diabetes, how much fat builds up in their liver might be linked to how their pancreas hormones are balancing each other — when liver fat goes up, the hormone balance shifts the other way, and vice versa.
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Beneficial Effects of Carbohydrate Restriction in Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Traced to Changes in Hepatic Metabolism.
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2025 Dec 18The study looked at people with mild type 2 diabetes on a low-carb diet and found that as liver fat went down, the balance between two key hormones (glucagon and C-peptide) improved, which supports the idea that liver fat and hormone balance are linked.
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