Health Highlight: Did you know fasting can reverse fatty liver disease?

Roxi fasted for 10 months without losing much weight but completely reversed her fatty liver disease and went from prediabetic to exceptionally low blood sugar numbers.

Today I want to share with you the amazing story of Roxi, a faster who’s been a guest on Gin Stephen’s podcast Intermittent Fasting Stories. Roxi went to her doctor in January of 2019 complaining of pain under her ribs. Her doctor ordered an ultrasound and found that Roxi had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that is becoming increasingly common from increased sugar and ultra-processed food consumption.

Roxi’s blood glucose level and A1c also showed that she was prediabetic. Roxi’s doc wanted to put her on medications for both fatty liver and diabetes but Roxi said she wanted a chance to try to heal her conditions naturally first. Roxi went home and began intermittent fasting.

Roxi started fasting 16:8 (fasting for 16 hours and eating within 8 hours) but quickly progressed to 22:2 and stayed there. Although she was doing quite a bit of fasting, she was disappointed to find she was losing only about 1 lb per month. She wondered if all that fasting was even working.

However, 10 months after she began fasting, she went in for a follow-up ultrasound and found that she had no signs of fatty liver disease!

Not only that, her A1C went from 6.1 to 4.7, far below the prediabetic range, and all without medication. (A1C measures average blood glucose for the last three months by measuring the glycation or sticking of sugar molecules to proteins. 5.7 and above is prediabetic.)

Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made, and when we give them a chance to heal, they know what to prioritize. The fat surrounding Roxi’s liver didn’t weigh much, but it was vitally important that her body clear it out before she could lose other weight. All those months of fasting when she thought she wasn’t seeing many results, her body was clearing away the most deadly fat first.

Roxi continued fasting and ended up losing 32 lbs total and went from a size 22W to a size 10.

Roxi’s advice for new IFers: “Don’t be afraid to get out of your comfort zone. Where has comfort gotten you to this point? Don’t be afraid to be uncomfortable at first. Embrace it!”

I really enjoyed hearing Roxi tell her entire story below. Don’t have Spotify? Click here.