Hormonal
Eight weeks of resistance exercise reduces intrahepatic lipid (liver fat) by approximately 13% in adults with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) without causing any change in body weight or visceral fat.
If you have fatty liver, you do not need to lose weight to start improving your liver health. Start a resistance training program (lifting weights) 3 times a week. Focus on progressive overload (lifting heavier over time) rather than burning calories through cardio. You will likely see improvements in liver fat and insulin sensitivity even if the scale stays exactly the same.
This is the first study to demonstrate that resistance exercise specifically improves NAFLD independent of any change in body weight... Resistance exercise elicited a 13% relative reduction in liver lipid... Resistance exercise had no effect on body weight, visceral adipose tissue volume, or whole body fat mass.
Why this rating
Small sample size (n=11 exercise, n=8 control) and short duration (8 weeks), though the study design is a randomized controlled trial.
Source
Resistance exercise reduces liver fat and its mediators in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease independent of weight loss
Kate Hallsworth et al. · Gut · 2011
DOI 10.1136/gut.2011.242073
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