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What  Is Fatty Liver Disease?

Your liver is one of the hardest-working organs in your body. It helps regulate blood sugar, processes fats, manufactures important proteins, breaks down medications, and performs hundreds of other functions that keep you alive and kicking.

But sometimes, fat begins accumulating inside liver cells—often thanks to metabolic problems like insulin resistance and excess abdominal fat. When this happens in the setting of metabolic dysfunction, it's called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). But that's a mouthful, so we'll stick with fatty liver.