Reptiles do not die from "fatty liver disease" eptiles naturally have a fatty liver to begine with. It is because of their life style. The way you explain it makes it too simple. Fatty liver disease is much more complicated.

Fat does not get mobilized into the bloodstream and deposited into the liver until a reptile goes off feed for whatever reason. In fact, fatty liver is found more often in anorexic reptiles than it is found in fat captives.

Now, body fat being mobilized into the bloodstream and deposited into the liver is a normal function for when reptiles go into brumation or aestivation, but when a retiles health is compromised by parasitic infestation, protozoan infection, improper temps, and overall poor husbandry that causes them to go off feed, the body does not react well to the influx of fats bing dumped into the liver. A reptile can be obese without having fatty liver disease. These terms get thrown around too often with out the user of the term actually knowing what is really going on.

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