I loved to wind down with a couple of glasses of wine every night – until I was told I had liver disease at just 47. I gave up alcohol for a year and lost three stone – but this is how I REVERSED my condition

I am not sure I could have blushed a deeper red. At a friend’s dinner party, I was slightly alarmed to see my own GP among the guests, and then utterly mortified when she leaned over to whisper at me as the host filled my wine glass. ‘You shouldn’t be having that,’ she hissed.

She was right. No more than a week before I’d sat in her office to hear the results of a series of tests, which she’d delivered with an equally stern frown.

‘Your blood tests are back and they’re showing your liver is under stress,’ she said. ‘A lot

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