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Liver health

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A radiographer positioning a patient at the mouth of an MRI scanner

Lean people with fatty liver and no risk factors still faced 2.5 times the liver death rate

Fatty liver is treated as a consequence of obesity and metabolic problems. A Gut analysis of 30,847 MRI-scanned UK Biobank participants found a slim group with none of those markers, and followed it to a higher rate of liver-related death.

Aug 30, 2026

Grey capsules spilled from a clear bottle onto a yellow background

verdict

NAC: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

NAC is a hospital antidote sold as a supplement, and the two are not the same claim. It saves lives in paracetamol overdose. For almost everything it is marketed for, the evidence is thin or uncertain.

Aug 5, 2026

A heap of pale dried ashwagandha roots on a patterned market cloth

verdict

Ashwagandha: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Ashwagandha has real evidence for stress and sleep, thinner evidence for strength, and a liver problem that arrived in 2017. The list of people who should avoid it is unusually long, and now includes thyroid patients.

Aug 3, 2026

Ground turmeric filling an open sack, with fragments of dried root through it

verdict

Turmeric and curcumin: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Curcumin barely absorbs, and the high-absorption forms built to fix that are the ones LiverTox links to liver injury. Knee osteoarthritis is the one solid use; the rest is thinner than the shelf suggests.

Aug 3, 2026