If you have NAFLD without any other health problems, you don’t need any special treatment. But making some lifestyle changes can control or reverse the fat buildup in your liver. These may include:
If you have NASH, no medicine can fully reverse the fat buildup in your liver. Sometimes the liver damage stops or even reverses itself. But for other people, the disease keeps getting worse. If you have NASH, it’s important to control any conditions that may help cause the disease. Treatments and lifestyle changes may include:
Losing weight
Exercising more
Taking medicine to lower cholesterol or triglycerides
Taking medicine to lower blood pressure
Taking medicine to control diabetes
Limiting over-the-counter medicines
Not drinking alcohol. No amount of alcohol is known to be fully safe once you have NASH.
Eating a diet low in fat and simple carbohydrates
Seeing a liver specialist
Your provider may advise certain medicines if you have NASH. These include vitamin E in people without diabetes or heart disease. And they include pioglitazone, a diabetes medicine for people with or without diabetes. But these have side effects, so talk about them with your healthcare provider. Other medicines, including certain herbal supplements, are being looked into. Treating the underlying conditions is the absolute most important thing, and is more effective than any medicine.