In mice with fatty liver disease, a special diet with certain nutrients and less carbs seems to boost the liver's ability to make ketones, which are energy molecules. This diet made ketone production about 50-100% higher than just a high-fat diet.

In sick mice with fatty livers, a special diet with certain nutrients and less carbs helps their livers make more energy-boosting ketones—about 50-100% more than other high-fat diets—which might mean their cells are working better.

If you're overweight and have fatty liver, going on a keto diet for just 6 days might make your liver burn fat for fuel way more—like over 3 times as much—instead of storing it.

When mice with fatty liver disease eat a special high-fat, low-carb diet with certain protein building blocks for a long time, it seems to make their liver problems worse by increasing signs of damage, scar tissue buildup, and fat storage, especially when they haven't eaten for a while.

A special diet with certain proteins made mice with fatty liver disease worse. It caused more fat buildup in their livers, higher levels of a liver damage marker in their blood, and signs of scar tissue forming, which means their liver disease got more serious.

If you're overweight and have fatty liver, going on a keto diet for just 6 days might supercharge your liver's energy system and shift it into fat-burning mode, possibly helping your body make more ketones.