Thanks! What I kind of guessed...
Low Carb is v effective at burning off liver fat etc, which is why I questioned your assertion that low calorie was essential...
You make a very assertive claim in your post which I am forced to question.
"Low Carb is v effective at burning off liver fat etc,"
Where is the scientific proof? What Prof Taylor was able to do with his funding was to develop a tool (MRI) that demonstrated the before and after conditions of the liver and pancreas that proved that his diet was removing NAFLD from these organs
in vivo in other words in test subjects that were living before, during, and after the study ended. The evidence that LC diets do the same uses animal studies, and post mortem analysis to conjecture that humans gain the same effect. The proof is therefore weaker,
The other thing I have noted is that human LC trials use modified Mediterranean diets which are open to introducing confounding variants and are not tightly controlled. In the VLC trials the use of meal replacements produced less chance of variables and just as importantly from a scientific point of view, permitted repeatable experimentation to be performed if necessary. Yes I suspect that a similar trial could be run to demonstrate the same efficacy in an LC trial, if you can get the funding and a standardised LC meal plan that the nutritionists will accept. Till that day, we remain in a backwater.
And, yes, I did use LCHF myself and for short period was able to claim reversal. But it did not last, and I am back on low level medication.