Fatty liver disease: 46% of Americans are struggling with it right now, let alone the number of people around the world who are dealing with it.

Sometimes this can be created by alcohol, but non-alcoholic fatty liver is becoming more common due to the explosion of obesity, overconsumption, and too much sugar hitting your liver.

Fatty liver disease can cause fluids to back up in the body, and your liver can’t process chemicals as well.

It’s going to raise triglyceride levels and be very hard on your heart.

Many doctors are not going to really recommend treatments for this, or even check for it if you have health issues.

So what can you do about it on your own to help prevent long-term issues?

If you want to test for fatty liver with your doctor, I would recommend getting your AST and ALT liver enzymes tested.

That’s an easy way to tell if there is damage being done to the liver.

If there is a big concern of fatty liver, doctors can also perform an ultrasound to find this.

The problem is that the typical doctor’s solutions of drugs could actually make the problem worse.

Here, I’ll cover 5 things you can do at home to address your liver health.

1. Address Medications

The number one step for fixing a fatty liver at home is removing as many of your medications as you can.

I’m not telling you to stop taking your drugs, but try going to drugs.com and looking up the potential side effects that your medication could be causing.

You’ve got to know that almost every single one of them is going to impact your liver and create damage.

The most common ones that are hardest on the liver are non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) like aspirin, Motrin, and ibuprofen.

Tylenol gets into that mix as well; it’s not an NSAID, but it’s also very hard on the liver.

If you have fatty liver disease problems, or you have high ASTs and ALTs, the number one thing to avoid at home are over-the-counter pain relievers.

What can you do instead? Take something like an omega-3 or turmeric.

Those are two of the most powerful anti-inflammatories, and studies have shown they can reduce pain as well as NSAIDs without damage to your liver.

2. Add In Antioxidants

Getting antioxidants can be very simple, and the top two are vitamins C and E.

The American Association for the Study of Liver Disease recommends that you take 800 IUs of vitamin E a day.

That’s especially important if you know you have fatty liver disease or have high AST or ALT numbers.

Vitamin E is the mother of antioxidants.

It is very powerful for making sure chemicals and free radicals don’t do more damage to your liver.

Vitamin C is another easy one to get in. You can get it from foods like acerola cherries, strawberries, and oranges.

I would avoid orange juice and some of the high-sugar fruits.

That’s why I like acerola cherries, because they’re a little better on the sugar side of things.

Broccoli is a good source of it, or you can just supplement it to get the ascorbic acid.

A 2013 study out of Japan showed that taking vitamin C and vitamin E together is very beneficial for liver problems and fatty liver disease.

3. Remove The Fructose

Now, fructose is found in fruits, so we want to watch out for that.

It’s not that you can never have fruit again, but we drink a lot of fruit juices that have added sugar as well.

We also drink a lot of high-fructose corn syrup or eat foods that are high in it..

The fructose explosion has an almost direct correlation with fatty acid and fatty liver explosion. It could create overweightness and obesity very quickly.

When fructose hits the liver, the body is so overburdened with so much extra sugar and has to figure out what to do with it.

So much energy is in the liver at that point that the liver has to either burn it up, or store it as fat if you’re not moving very much.

Exercise actually helps fatty liver disease, so I would add that into your regimen as a bonus.

The liver can keep a little bit of the sugar, but the liver’s so bogged down that it turns into fat in the liver.

The rest of it is shipped out as triglycerides in your body.

If you have a high glyceride count, chances are, your liver is struggling.

The best way to counteract it is by lowering the damage to your liver by going on a low-carb, low-sugar, and low-fructose diet.

That means cutting out all forms of fruit except Granny Smith apples, grapefruits, lemons, and limes.

Those would be approved because they’re very low in fructose, but other fruits have to go.

More importantly, you also want to cut out high-fructose corn syrups, sodas, carbohydrates, grains, breads, and crackers.

4. Rotational Fasting

You can make a massive difference in two weeks by going on that diet. If you want to accelerate those results, I recommend adding in rotational fasting.

What that does is put your body into cleanup mode, especially your liver, and you can help protect liver health by incorporating it.

Rotational fasting lowers your consumption, which means less burden on the liver, especially if the only foods you’re eating are low-carb and low-sugar.

You’re going to go longer periods of time where the body is not being given raw material in the form of food.

The body is going to have to find its own food, which means it will break down fats, especially in the liver, in order to build new cells and keep your body running.

That’s because you are burning 300 million cells every minute.

If you don’t give the body food to make those, it’s going to use things like fat, and liver fat is what’s going to burn up first.

If you need help getting started with that type of fasting, you can find my video on rotational fasting here.

It’s been a game-changer for my physiology. and for so many tens of thousands of people that I’ve taught it to, but a lot of people don’t know what it is.

5. Cut Out Alcohol

Drinking alcohol is obviously hard on the liver, especially if you’re a frequent drinker.

If you want to reduce how much alcohol you’re drinking, try substituting it with some lemon water.

You’re going to juice a lemon every morning into a glass of water for breakfast. I want to help you understand the power of how this can impact you.

If you apply the above four that I talked about, and then you add in lemon water instead of alcohol, you are going to significantly support your liver’s health.

I made a whole video showing how powerful lemon water is, how to make it, and how easy it is to consume.

You are the solution to your fatty liver problem. You just have to take some action here.

You created it, you can undo it. I’ll be here to help you to make health simple.