Paul Cherry was in his mid-40s when he first felt unwell enough to see his GP. ‘I was so tired, I was sleeping all the time and feeling unusually snappy,’ recalls the father of two. ‘It hurt to pee as well.’
Paul was diagnosed with type 2 and initially put on metformin to lower his blood sugar levels, then later he began taking insulin daily. At the same time, he was also diagnosed with NAFLD – non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a build-up of fat in the liver that is a common precursor to cirrhosis (liver scarring).
As the name suggests, NAFLD is not related to intake: risk factors include a family history of fatty liver and having type 2 diabetes. It usually affects those who are overweight, although liver specialists say people of normal weight can also develop it – known as ‘lean’ NAFLD.
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