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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.

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The study tested the exact same diet as the claim and found it did increase ketone production in the liver, just like the claim says, but it also found some bad side effects that the claim doesn't mention.

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