My liver enzymes were slightly elevated at my 2021 physical. My PCP said everyone drank more than they should during COVID, and largely ignored it.
They were even higher in 2022, but still not concerning.
Then in 2023, my blood pressure and cholesterol had spiked, but I had also gained like 40 lbs. Nothing about my lifestyle had changed, but they put me on a statin. Solved the blood pressure, but it spiked my liver enzymes off the chart. I've had liver issues ever since, and just got a biopsy last week. I don't like to bother my parents with medical things, but felt like I should let her know about that. She then brought up that when my dad switched jobs in 1987 and had blood tests, they told him he had the liver of a lifelong alcoholic at age 32. But he didn't drink at all, because his dad drank himself to death. So at that point they just wrote it off, because every liver issue was written off as alcoholism, or the liver wasn't checked when you died from heart diesease.
Well, once I got diagnosed, talked to my siblings, they got checked, and 3/4 of us have faulty livers. And its getting tested more regularly because lots of unhealthy habits test it. In previous generations is was just alcohol, because we didn't eat the shit we do now. They also set me up with a dietician that makes easy changes. We eat more fried food in general, but we also eat out more, and the cheap side is chips or fries. Paying the extra $1 for broccoli or a baked potato is an easy change. But men are drinking less than they did in previous generations, but we are seeing MORE liver issues.
Funny thing was that the weight gain was liver related, and they treated it like a symptom, not a cause
