The Claim
Healthy men with a family history of type 2 diabetes have 94% higher baseline intrahepatocellular lipids and 35% higher total triacylglycerols compared to healthy men without such a family history.
What the research says
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Men who have close relatives with type 2 diabetes show 94% higher fat levels in their liver and 35% higher blood triglyceride levels than men without such a family history, even when they are otherwise healthy.
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Healthy men with a family history of type 2 diabetes have 94% higher baseline intrahepatocellular lipids and 35% higher total triacylglycerols than those without such a history, indicating pre-existing metabolic vulnerability even before dietary challenge.
Men with a family history of type 2 diabetes have livers that make more fat from sugar even when they eat normally, and their livers do not respond as well to insulin, so they store more fat inside liver cells and release more fat into the blood.
What the research says
1 studyEven before eating lots of sugar, men whose parents had type 2 diabetes already had more fat in their liver and higher blood fats than other men. The study proves this difference exists naturally, not because of diet.
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