Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. (NAFLD). Presented by Dr Alex Hodge, BSc, MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACP
NAFLD is an exceedingly common and very serious disease. An authority on research into this field is Dr Alexander Hodge from Monash Health. Alex has a PhD in stem cell therapy for chronic liver diseases and lifestyle modifications for fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome.
Alex outlines how changes in diet and lifestyle since Palaeolithic times have contributed to the increase in NAFLD. He talks us through the range of medical tests used to diagnose it and their accuracies, and discusses its links to type 2 diabetes, metabolic disorder, and liver diseases such as cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
As well as the latest in pharmaceutical clinical trials, Alex discusses research on how lifestyle interventions such as a higher plant based diet, weight loss and increased physical activity can help your clients decrease or even rid themselves of liver fat to greatly improve their overall health.
About the presenter – Dr Alex Hodge, MBBS (Hons), BSc, PhD is a consultant at Monash Health in gastroenterology and clinical nutrition. He is Principal investigator on Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials for NAFLD.
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