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There is no dose-response relationship for liver enzyme improvement beyond 60 minutes/week of increased physical activity in NAFLD patients.
You don't need to exercise excessively to improve your liver enzymes. Increasing your activity by just 60 minutes per week (e.g., 10 minutes a day) is enough to see significant benefits. Going beyond this threshold does not provide additional liver enzyme improvements, though it may help with weight loss.
GoodQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
There was no dose-response effect on liver enzymes with incremental increases in physical activity above 60 minutes/week.
Why this rating
Based on subgroup analysis within the same RCT.
Source
Independent effects of physical activity in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease #
Alexis George et al. · Hepatology · 2009
DOI 10.1002/hep.22940
rct · n=141Cited 319×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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