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Old Sat, Jan-26-19, 14:28
Amedee Amedee is offline
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I’ve been low carb for 3 weeks, ALT liver, blood work was high. Can induction cause this?
I have not lost weight, only carbs are cup of iceberg lettuce, cheese & Ranch dressing.
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Old Sat, Jan-26-19, 15:18
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As the tissues of the liver are damaged the enzymes spill into the blood. Definitely not caused by low carb. Typical causes are alcohol, autoimmune hepatitis, and celiac eating gluten.

Your dr should go over this with you.
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Old Sat, Jan-26-19, 15:38
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Hi and welcome.

Did you have it checked before you started? It could be coming down. How poor was your diet before? IMO, a crappy high-carb diet is infinitely worse for your liver than real food and vegetables. I'd have a hard time believing that would be causing liver problems. In fact, our crappy diet is causing an epidemic of NAFLD among teenagers. KIDS. 10% of them have it! Imagine what the rates are among adults.

Other causes of elevated ALT can be heart conditions, muscle damage, and exposure to alcohol, medications, etc. There are MANY medications - prescription and non-prescription - that are harsh on the liver, including statins and NSAIDS.

FWIW, my ALT was elevated at my last physical, but the doc wasn't concerned and neither was I.

HTH.
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Induction would not cause this, NAFLD is caused by high sugar and refined carb foods, and the ALT and AST take a long time to come down. It is more likely a reflection of your previous diet. Search the DietDoctor website for tags fatty liver and liver disease..good info like this brand new study: https://www.dietdoctor.com/cutting-...-be-that-simple

There was a previous thread on Elevated Liver Enzymes here that had good info from many members:
https://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=468056


When I started LC eight years ago my liver markers were on the high end of normal, a level LC specialists like Robert Lustig would state as "too high". They only slowly reduced, as did my weight.
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