Good news...or not?

"Reality has a way of intruding, whether you want it to or not."

This quote came up as I was reading an AV Club recap of the Mad Man season one finale "The Wheel." And today, in a small way as I was standing in line at a Walgreens to buy some batteries, it did.

Gonna call it outright. I was looking to use pioglitazone to accomplish two goals: improve liver health and gain weight. Well, the need for pioglitazone depends on bad liver health. Which, according to my latest blood numbers, does not exist. Today, both of my liver enzymes (ALT and AST) are so well within normal limits as to be completely unworthy of discussion. Tied for second lowest in my health history. So apparently intermittent fasting is quite effective for helping to keep my liver destruction at a minimum. It would be interesting later to get a liver ultrasound and see what it shows. Would hepatomegaly decrease? Would there be less echogenicity?

I'm not entirely thrilled about this, contrarily enough. Two cheers for health. But this means that I'd have to rely on non-pharmaceutical methods to gain weight again. And intermittent fasting will probably result in further weight loss. I dunno. Maybe the resultant anger I have can be put toward the gym and help me build up muscle or something.