Liver Health
It's just your age - the half-sentence that costs women years
After the change the middle arrives and the scales barely move. Why that is the clue, and the one check that almost never gets ordered.
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Your liver, the tests that track it and the everyday habits that matter.
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It's just a beer gut, they say. Nobody asks what's sitting behind it
For blokes who have heard it for years - and what usually sits right behind the belt that nobody checks.
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Drink less beer, they said - what the same blood test was showing about the liver
For men who cut the beer and the prawns and still got the next flare - and the number on the same pathology sheet nobody mentioned.
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Told to lose weight for years - and nobody had looked at the liver
Why years of doing everything right can change nothing, and the one check that almost never gets ordered.
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A realistic 2–4 kg a month once the load comes off
Why diets stall when the liver is carrying a load it cannot clear, and the liver drops readers are switching to.
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Fatty liver affects one in three Australian adults, mostly unnoticed
It is the most common liver condition in the country and it rarely causes symptoms. What the term means, who is more likely to have it and how it is found.
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Reading your liver function test: ALT, AST, GGT and the rest
A reader's guide to the six lines of the liver panel on an Australian pathology report, and why one mildly raised result is often simply repeated.
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Your liver does not need a cleanse: what Australian guidance says
The liver does its own clearing. Australian guidance focuses on four ordinary things instead: weight, movement, eating pattern and alcohol.
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