Your liver plays a vital role in your metabolism, the biological process which converts food into energy. We know that being overweight can negatively affect metabolic activity, but not exactly how.

Many individuals assume that if their weight is normal and routine tests are within limits, their liver must be healthy. Unfortunately, this is not always true. A normal weight does not necessarily ...

A1C, LDL, HDL… the number of medical abbreviations you might see on your patient portal is enough to make you think your doctor speaks an entirely different language. Two such acronyms you may be less ...

Many people discover they have fatty liver disease during a routine health check-up. They walk into a clinic for a regular ...

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central finding of a new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Your liver is one of the most patient organs in your body, quietly handling hundreds of essential functions while rarely complaining about the abuse you put it through. But this stoic nature works ...

An illustration of the results of the trans-omic analysis. Allosteric regulation, which controls metabolism, decreased in typical mice during feeding (thin blue arrow, left) and increased during ...