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mtx013 t1_is1fohj wrote

More about fatty liver and cirrhosis:

One of liver basic functions is to store energy, one pathway to it is transforming sugar (and ethanol) in fat. Once you fat storage/usage is skewed, the liver keeps producing and storing fat, which leads to chronic inflammation.

Alcohol, hepatitis virus B and C or even your own autoimmune system cause direct inflammation in your liver.

Inflammation, while reversible, leads to cell damage, which cause (1) repair and (2) scars.

(1) chronic inflammation-repairing leads to increased cancer risk.

(2) scars are mostly irreversible and when accumulated, are called cirrhosis.

How much fatty liver you have before developing cirrhosis depends on genetics, amount and speed of liver damage. For reference, when discussing fatty liver disease, we usually divide it between alcoholic and non-alcoholic due to how much more damage alcohol causes.

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Wh0rse t1_is1povb wrote

Alcohol can't be stored at all, it has to be prefered to be metabolised over all macros because of this. In the presence of ethanol, dietry fat is stored and sugar converted to fat, but ethanols matabolism is to be eventually converted to CO2 and water for elimination.

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cervicalgirdle t1_iscrqak wrote

Why are scars in the liver called cirrhosis while elsewhere they are called sclerosis?

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