My late husband had fatty liver disease, taking milk thistle lowered his liver enzymes. He also started eating more broccoli in his diet... Just fyi he died in car crash, not from liver disease.

Fast forward... My fiance had fatty liver disease when I met him, told him about milk thistle, he said "why the hell not," and now his liver enzymes are at normal levels.

And last but not least, my dog was diagnosed with Cushing's and of course... Fatty liver. You guessed it... Started giving the dog milk thistle...a lot cheaper than the vet's $300 a month meds for the dog. Of course, liver enzymes back within normal range by her next appointment.

Because there's no side effects, my daughter and I started taking before bed just for liver support for over ten years now.

I think choline helps the liver as well. It's found in liver and egg yolks. I've had a fatty liver for years as far as I know but my liver enzymes have been fine.

They told me I had a fatty liver from a MRI when I had a kidney stone about 5 years ago. I bought some milk thistle seeds and powder years ago but never took them. I think it’s about time.

I was told that I had NAFLD, and my ALT levels were always high and out of range. After a year of keto, they were normal. Subsequent blood draws have all been on the low end of the normal range.

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That's interesting, and unfortunate. In the reading I've done about keto, I thought eating low amounts of carbs was supposed to help avoid or reduce fatty liver. Yet you say you've been doing keto for a few years. So, I don't know.

The low carbs or the weight loss or something brought my ALT down. Whatever it was, I was happy to see it. I never processed this with my doctor, but I have a checkup tomorrow morning and will try to remember to bring it up. I predict he will say it is the weight loss. I claim it was the keto that brought them down, but since that is how I lost the weight, it may be the same thing in some ways.

I have been keto since 2016, and I am sticking with the diet in maintenance. I just increased calories a little.

Kidney stones are terrible, I feel for you. I actually read that baking soda can pass acidic kidney stones so I tried it and it was gone. No pain after that, No pain meds besides the hospital iv. I take potassium citrate, chelated magnesium, and vitamin c now to help stop kidney stones.

https://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/how-to-eat-a-low-oxalate-diet/
Kidney stones and gallstones, aw hell, that's a nightmare.
Check this list for high oxalate foods. I wouldn't worry about all the foods on the list but mostly the top 6.

So I had the conversation with my doctor about the liver enzymes being low normal these days after 30 years of being high and out of range. He attributes this to the weight loss. I asked him to explain how that my high levels first showed up when I was at the current weight 32 years ago. He said it was a mystery of science but that the weight loss was what brought it down. I said, "OK, thanks..."

Milk Thistle!!

I have Chronic Liver Disease with Stage 4 fibrosis/stage 1 Cirrhosis will have to get myself some milk thistle to see if it helps