Results Just came back from a routine blood work. Everything normal but the liver enzymes are elevated. AST is 67 ALT is 207 I have been drinking an average of 2-3 drinks per day for the last 4 months. I am thinking this is the problem. I am also 15 lbs heavier than the last test (which was completely normal, about a year ago). Any tips to reduce these and bring back to normal? TC 500k Yoe 15
Reduce meat and carb/sugar. Go majority vegan diet. Exercise, too. 2-3 mile walks and do 50 air squats a day. Good luck
Vegan is tough for me. Do you think keto will help?
Reduce your meat to 4oz. Watch your cholesterol and sugar level by getting blood test once a year. I never tried keto but I can't bare to simply eat more fat for energy. It's really easy actually. If vegetables are hard to swallow like romain lettuce or mixed greens, pair it with dates, raisins or nuts, mandarin oranges or granny Smith apples, cucumbers, half and avocado. Thats my daily lunch there. Spaghetti sauce with spiral squash helps against cravings. Loading the stomach up with hardy cabbages helps too.
- stop drinking - cut out all sugars - lower dietary fat intake and consume only healthy saturated/PUFA from non-seed oils Make a change before you end up with cirrhosis. Bad way to go.
This. Plus work up to 2 meals a day , say noon and 6pm, where you do not snack the other 18 hours. See Doctor Ken Berry on YouTube
Thanks both. Yes I have done OMAD for a few months in the past. Thinking of doing 2MAD as you mentioned above this time.
Luckily liver is lot more forgiving than lungs. Just reducing carbs, alcohol and stress can bring it back to normal from these levels.
Thanks . Hoping so. This is a wake up call for me.
Hey! I had the same issue for years, I started going to the gym 5-4 times per week lifting weights 3 days and 2 days cardio, and my results are very good now since at least 2 years ago. I highly recommend doing exercise, and reduce alcohol maybe drink only on the weekends.
Thanks. For now abstaining from alcohol completely until the numbers come down. Them an ultrasound to check for scarring and then will decide if I should get into moderate alcohol consumption
These levels are chronic issue and not just due to 4 months. Did they get an ultra sound done? Cut down alcohol, red meat completely, eliminate added sugars.
What do you mean by chronic? Last year the same time my results were fine. Marked increase in alcohol consumption is the one difference.
Liver is pretty robust. This much elevation doesn't happen in a year. Your doctor should have prescribed you to get some imaging. You either have an alcoholic or non alcoholic fatty liver. There are grades for that. You have to check and make sure there are no lumps as well as cirrhosis.
A serious day in the weight room can also elevate those enzymes. AST : ALT = 2 : 1 or higher is the rule of thumb for alcohol liver damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST/ALT_ratio
Thank you. But this was not the case with me
Stop drinking?
Thanks. Stopping from yesterday