The Claim

Adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease have significantly higher plasma endotoxin concentrations than healthy controls.

Source: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in humans is associated with increased plasma endotoxin and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 concentrations and with fructose intake.

What the research says

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Correlation
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In plain English

Adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease have higher levels of bacterial endotoxins in their blood than adults without the disease.

See the scientific wording

Plasma endotoxin concentrations are significantly elevated in adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease compared to healthy controls, indicating a potential link between gut-derived bacterial products and liver inflammation in NAFLD.

Why this might work

Eating too much fructose causes bacteria to overgrow in the small intestine and makes the gut lining leaky. This allows bacterial toxins to escape into the blood and travel to the liver, where they bind to special receptors on liver cells and turn on inflammation pathways that damage the liver.

Supported mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in humans is associated with increased plasma endotoxin and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 concentrations and with fructose intake.

    People with fatty liver disease had more bacterial toxins in their blood than healthy people, which suggests that bacteria from the gut might be leaking into the bloodstream and hurting the liver.

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