I lost my mother suddenly to late-stage NASH when she was only 62 years old. The search for answers and meaning has led me to working with the American Liver Foundation and starting this blog. One thing that has become increasingly clear to me was that my mom’s decades of hypothyroidism could have been a major cause of her progression to NASH. Now, a new meta-study examining 18 years of data has concluded that those patients with primary hypothyroidism are at a 42% increased risk for developing NAFLD, the precursor to NASH. Continue reading “The Thyroid’s link to NASH”