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Short Summary
Main recommendation: Reverse fatty liver (which Dr. Ken Berry calls metabolic associated fatty liver disease, MAFLD) by eliminating sugar, grains, and vegetable oils, eating a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet of fatty meat or eggs plus green vegetables, and fasting 16 to 18 hours daily. Dr. Berry frames this as a seven-step cure and claims people can reverse fatty liver within weeks to months, verifiable with follow-up imaging and blood work.
Key Points
- MAFLD is the renamed term for fatty liver the speaker says is driven by metabolism and diet rather than alcohol, which he argues the older name "non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" obscures.
- The speaker attributes fatty liver largely to improper diet that overworks the liver, and says children are increasingly being diagnosed.
- Fat is presented as safe to eat, while carbohydrates and sugars are presented as the cause of fatty liver.
- Liquid sugars, including fruit juice even without added sugar, are described as the worst offenders.
- Intermittent fasting, avoiding snacks, and omega-3 from whole foods (not supplements) are presented as supporting liver recovery.
Details Worth Noting
- Concrete instructions:
- Step 1: Remove all sugar, added and naturally occurring. Stop all sugary soft drinks and most fruit juice. Stop processed foods with added sugar and high-sugar whole foods.
- Step 2: Remove all grains, including whole grains: wheat, corn, rice, oats, and soybean.
- Step 3: Remove vegetable oils (shortening, Crisco, canola, soybean, corn, peanut). Cook with beef tallow, butter instead.
- Step 4: Fill at least half, ideally three quarters, of each plate with fatty meat or eggs, and the rest with green vegetables.
- Step 5: Fast 16 to 18 hours daily, starting from your usual roughly 8-hour overnight fast and lengthening gradually. During the fast, drink water (still or sparkling), unsweetened tea, or black coffee. Do not buy liver detox products.
- Step 6: Eat two or three discrete meals within a 6 to 8 hour window, with no snacks between them.
- Step 7: Get omega-3 from foods rather than supplements.
- The speaker excludes avoiding alcohol and liver-stressing drugs (such as acetaminophen or statins) from the seven steps, treating them as already known precautions.
- Proposed verification: follow up with your doctor in three or six months for repeat ultrasound, CT scan, and blood work.
- The speaker says the diet amounts to a ketogenic, carnivore, or very low carbohydrate diet, and cites research suggesting coffee may speed fatty liver resolution. These are the speaker's claims, not professional medical advice.
Bottom Line
According to Dr. Ken Berry, fatty liver is diet-driven and reversible by cutting sugar, grains, and seed oils while eating fat and fasting, a claim that should be discussed with a doctor before acting on it.
