The disease’s early stages often go unnoticed without any symptoms

Paying attention to changes in our bowel habits is an important way of monitoring our health.

Though seeing blood, experiencing diarrhoea or constipation, pain and unexplained weight loss all warrant a trip to the doctor, there’s another sign to look out for that could be a sign of a disease that impacts your liver.

While the early stages of the disease often go unnoticed without any symptoms, experts are warning that one tell-tale sign can be spotted in your bowel habits.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which is also known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is a condition which occurs in people whose liver contains over five per cent fat and who consume little to no alcohol.

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