Fatty liver is a common health problem. If not treated, it can become very serious and turn into liver cancer.
A team from the University of Jyväskylä did research to find a way to treat it.
The Role of Good Bacteria
The scientists did tests on rats that had fatty liver. They gave the rats a special food supplement that makes good bacteria in the stomach grow faster.
When these bacteria grew, the fat in the rats’ livers went down. This is a good sign that the food supplement helped.
They used a special kind of good bacteria called Faecalibacterium prausnitzii. This bacteria is known to fight inflammation in the body. But, it’s hard to find this bacteria in medicine shops.
Because it’s hard to get this bacteria, the researchers thought of another way. They wanted to make this bacteria grow naturally in the stomach.
They used a special fiber called Xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS). This fiber is like food for the bacteria. So, when they gave the rats this fiber, the bacteria grew fast.
For 12 weeks, they gave rats with fatty liver this special fiber. At the end, the rats’ livers had less fat. The main reason was that their livers processed fat and sugar better.
Satu Pekkala, one of the researchers, said that this special fiber made the good bacteria grow and reduced the fat in the rats’ livers. This is the first time that this kind of result was seen with XOS.
What This Means for Humans
Even though this test was on rats, the researchers tried the same thing on people with fatty liver. They gave them the special fiber to see if it helped.
There are also other things that people should know about fatty liver. There are studies that show how certain things, like some soap ingredients, can make fatty liver worse.
On the other hand, some studies suggest that eating dairy foods can be linked to liver cancer, while drinking coffee might reduce the risk of liver cancer.
If you want to know more about keeping your liver healthy, there are studies about a diet that can reduce fatty liver by half.
Satu Pekkala and her team’s research is published in the journal Nutrients.
If you care about liver health, please read studies about simple habit that could give you a healthy liver, and common diabetes drug that may reverse liver inflammation.
For more information about health, please see recent studies about simple blood test that could detect your risk of fatty liver disease, and results showing this green diet may strongly lower non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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