ABOUT THE LIVER TRANSLATOR
Nobody should need a research background to understand their own diagnosis.
The Liver Translator takes published fatty-liver and MASLD guidance and turns it into language, frameworks and questions normal people can actually use.
WHY THIS EXISTS
A diagnosis can take ninety seconds. Understanding it can take weeks.
Someone says “fatty liver.” Maybe your ALT or AST was elevated. Maybe an ultrasound report mentioned steatosis. Maybe prediabetes or insulin resistance entered the conversation too.
Then you go home.
That is where the difficult part often begins: dozens of tabs, contradictory food lists, unfamiliar test names, and advice that sounds certain even when the evidence is not.
The Liver Translator exists to organise that information without pretending that general education can replace personalised medical care.
MEET MARA
Mara is the translator. The evidence is the authority.
Mara Reyes is the illustrated host and editorial voice of The Liver Translator.
Her persona is built around the discipline of a former clinical research coordinator: reading studies, comparing guidance, noticing the limits of a claim, and translating technical language into something more usable.
Mara is not presented as a doctor, nurse or dietitian. She does not diagnose, prescribe, stage disease, or interpret an individual reader’s medical results.
“A clear explanation should leave you with better questions — not the illusion that a website knows your medical history.”
HOW THE WORK GETS DONE
The voice comes last. The source comes first.
Find the source
Start with published clinical guidance, consensus documents and peer-reviewed research.
Check the claim
Ask what the evidence actually supports, for whom, and under what conditions.
Translate the language
Explain the useful meaning without turning nuance into false certainty.
Show the boundary
Make clear when the next answer belongs with a qualified clinician.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Clear health information should make you more informed, not more dependent.
Explain the why.
A food list may answer today’s question. A framework helps with tomorrow’s.
Keep uncertainty visible.
Evidence does not become stronger because somebody sounds confident.
Avoid miracle language.
No detox promises, miracle supplements, or guaranteed outcomes.
Respect the medical boundary.
General education has limits. Individual treatment decisions belong with qualified clinicians.
Make the source visible.
Readers should be able to understand where important claims come from.
Translate without dumbing down.
Plain English should remove unnecessary complexity, not remove useful nuance.
WANT TO SEE THE RULES?
Our editorial standards are public.
See how we think about sources, uncertainty, health claims, corrections, and the boundary between general education and personalised medical advice.
Read Editorial StandardsNEWLY DIAGNOSED?
Start with the first seven days.
The free guide gives you a place to begin before you try to understand everything at once.