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* INCLUSION CRITERIA: In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria: * Any individual \>=18 years of age who is enrolled in 14-AA-0181 and is seeking inpatient treatment. * Vibration Controlled Elastography parameters with initial CAP of \>295dB/m. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: * Pregnancy * Existing diagnosis of hyperlipidemia or essential hypertension * Hemoglobin A1c \>= 6.5% * Waist to hip ratio: \>=0.90 in males, \>=0.85 in females * Existing use of cholesterol lowering medications including statins, fibrates, or other similar medications used for the purposes of treating hyperlipidemia. * Those with evidence of severe alcoholic hepatitis with a Maddrey s Discriminant Function \> 32 * Those with other chronic liver diseases including chronic hepatitis B (positive hepatitis B surface Ag on admission), hepatitis C (positive hepatitis C RNA), or autoimmune hepatitis (clinical diagnosis based on high titer of positive ANA and or anti smooth muscle Ab and a history of autoimmune disease) * HIV infection * Contraindication or inability to perform a liver biopsy. * Participants with coagulopathy (PT/PTT values that are prolonged (Bullet) 3 seconds from the upper limit of the normal, including treatment with oral and parenteral anticoagulants), thrombocytopenia (\< 70,000), abnormal bleeding time or platelet dysfunction. Antiplatelet agents taken for cardiovascular prevention will not exclude participants, unless they cannot be stopped safely for the performance of a liver biopsy. * Hemoglobin level \< 11 g/dL * Inability to provide informed consent.