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.

If you're overweight and have fatty liver, going on a keto diet for just 6 days might cut the fat in your liver by over a quarter—even if you barely lose any weight.

If you're overweight and have fatty liver, going on a keto diet for just 6 days might reduce how your liver burns fuel, pushing your body to make more ketones instead.

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.

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.