Niki Nash, 36, from Swansea in Wales, posted a video to her\u00a0TikTok<\/a>\u00a0account @nikkin1988, listing the foods she is cutting out in the hopes of getting her liver back to full health.\u00a0<\/p>\n She told her 27,700 followers:\u00a0‘Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is just a build up of fat in your liver.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘It’s nothing to do with alcohol. Hence, by the name, however, limiting or reducing alcohol completely will help.<\/p>\n ‘This is usually found in people who are overweight to obese…however, I’m not classed as overweight or obese. Mine is all to do with my diet.<\/p>\n ‘So to reverse the condition, you need to limit salt, you need to limit fat, such as processed food, takeaways, McDonald’s, etc, and eliminate sugar from your diet as much as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘This is probably my biggest factor of why I’ve got the disease I am addicted to sugar.’\u00a0<\/p>\n Alongside making vital changes to her diet she, she has also taken up doing 30 minutes of daily exercise.<\/p>\n This she said: ‘It will significantly increase the chances of it being reversed.’<\/p>\n She added: ‘And if you smoke, stop smoking, because that doesn’t help either.’<\/p>\n Her final tip for other people with a NAFLD diagnosis was to increase their fruit and vegetable intake\u2014something which Chinese researchers previously found can help reverse the condition.<\/p>\n In the video she added: ‘There isn’t any medication that you can take to help. Either, it’s just all through a diet, health and lifestyle.’<\/p>\n Replying to one follower, she said that she was diagnosed after having a liver function test (LFT) and ultrasound, and that she also has an autoimmune condition which affects the organ.<\/p>\n While early stage NAFLD does not usually cause any harm, it can lead to serious liver damage, including cirrhosis if it gets worse.<\/p>\n The potentially life-threatening later stage condition cirrhosis is when the organ is scarred, resulting in permanent damage.<\/p>\n After posting the video, she received lots of comments from social media users going through similar experiences.<\/p>\n One user said: ‘I’ve just been told I’ve got a fatty liver when investigating something else.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I blame my lack of inactivity and diet since switching to working from home. I just switched my diet up and now waiting…’<\/p>\n The 36-year-old shared which foods she’s cutting out from her diet to reverse her NAFLD<\/p>\n Another user commented: ‘I have NAFLD not been told what stage it is. Mine was incidental finding on an ultrasound scan. I’ve done lifestyle changes like you guys.’<\/p>\n Meanwhile a third wrote: ‘I’m due a scan this weekend. I’ve lost nearly six stone since I was told, fingers crossed this helps.’\u00a0<\/p>\n A fourth user said: ‘I’m eating loads of veg, salad, fruit, chicken, tuna and wholemeal bread, [and] sugar free jelly.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I’m three stone down since Dec awaiting a date my next scan, hopefully before Dec again.’\u00a0<\/p>\n They are among millions<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>of people in the UK living with the condition in its early stages, which affects one in five people.\u00a0<\/p>\n Early signs include a dull or aching pain in the top right side of the tummy, extreme tiredness, unexplained weight loss and weakness.<\/p>\n If you have cirrhosis, you can get more severe symptoms like the yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes (jaundice).<\/p>\n Other signs of the late stage of the condition are itchy skin as well as swelling in the legs, ankles, feet or tummy.<\/p>\n It comes after a recent study suggested liver cancer cases will double globally by 2050<\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n The condition is often diagnosed after a blood test called a liver function test, but they don’t always pick up NAFLD.<\/p>\n It may also be spotted during an ultrasound, as described by some of the social media users.<\/p>\n If you’ve been diagnosed with NAFLD, further tests may be needed to determine which stage you have.<\/p>\n This can be a special blood test or having another type of ultrasound scan such as a Fibroscan.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100736669-14951283-image-a-1_1753802103263.jpg\")
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