10 Weird Signs You Already Have LIVER DAMAGE

Hello Health Champions. Is your liver dying? And  if so how could you tell? The first sign might  

just be something as common as a big belly whereas  some of the other signs we're going to talk about  

may seem a little weird but once you understand  what causes them then it just goes to show how  

incredibly common they are and how far-reaching  liver damage could be and sign number one is dry  

eyes or dry mouth I mean this has happened to  everyone at some point but when is it serious  

well this could be due to a hormonal imbalance  and there's two hormones that can be get out of  

balance from a liver damage and that's cortisol  and insulin and they can affect fluid balance  

in the body you can get dehydrated and lose fluid  that way it could also be the thyroid because the  

liver is responsible for converting and activating  most of the thyroid hormones you can't really have  

good good thyroid function without a healthy liver  and the thyroid will stimulate the salivary glands  

that produce tears and saliva but it could also  be a metabolic imbalance and there's something  

called hepatic encephalopathy which means the  liver is supposed to neutralize toxins and if  

the liver isn't so healthy now toxins build  up and if they build up enough at a certain  

point the whole brain chemistry gets affected  and the Brain can't carry out all its function  

and all its regulation appropriately and one of  the most important things it does is to regulate  

your autonomic or your automatic function in  the body so you don't think about breathing or  

making saliva and all this and whenever you have  a stress you're going to turn off your relaxing or  

your parasympathetic part of the nervous system  and this part is responsible for all secretions  

so again if the brain is stressed and it can't  relax properly now you can't regulate secretions  

so obviously the liver can cause this but it  could also be something as simple as stress  

and it's important that you start understanding  some of these mechanisms so that you can tell when  

it's really serious and when it's just something  temporary and one example that you've probably all  

experienced is if you're having to do a speech  like a public performance and you get really  

really nervous and your mouth dries up that's  the perfect example some people call it cotton  

mouth and you can hear this on people when they  get nervous and they speak into a microphone and  

all of a sudden you hear that smacking dry sound  in the mouth so that's just the stress turning  

off the salivary function and perhaps the most  important reason that we understand some of these  

things is because of how common this is this  is what a healthy liver looks like it's kind  

of pinkish reddish but then as the liver starts to  get damaged it changes color and it goes pale and  

yellow and that's because of fatty infiltration  it's called a fatty liver and it used to be that  

this mostly happened to alcoholics but today the  vast majority are just caused by poor diet and  

today we have as much as 40% of the population has  fatty infiltration in their liver and this is the  

first time this isn't necessarily A unhealthy  liver but this is where it starts becoming  

unhealthy This Is Where It Starts developing  some low-grade inflammation and taking on some  

damage in the next stage called liver fibrosis  the this is where the inflammation progresses  

and some of the healthy tissue turns fibrous it  hardens and now it's much much harder to reverse  

the damage and this could be as many as 12% so  if we look at these numbers and realize that in  

the us alone there's probably a 100 million  people with fatty liver and maybe even more  

with a small degree of fatty liver and there's  tens of Millions with fibrosis with progressing  

damage then the next step is where this fibrosis  gets very very severe and now they call it liver  

cirrhosis and this can affect as many as 5% of  the population so we're still talking tens of  

millions in the United States now the good news is  that the liver is the most amazing organ in terms  

of regenerating you can cut off a huge portion of  the liver and and it rebuilds itself in weeks and  

months the problem is that you need to do that  you need to start taking care of the liver in  

the early stages while there's just some fatty  infiltration you can probably reverse that 100%  

or near 100% but once there is more and more  healthy tissue turning fibrous then it becomes  

harder and harder to reverse and repair that  liver and by the time you're in cirrhosis and  

significant portion or most of the liver is turned  into fibrous tissue now there's probably not much  

that you can do about it and there's several  things that can cause liver damage one would  

be the hepatitis virus another one traditionally  people think about is alcohol excess alcohol that  

liver has to metabolize that all that alcohol  and the alcohol turns into fat and just like we  

talked about creates damage you can also Al  have autoimmune hepatitis where your immune  

system gets confused and starts attacking the  tissue and breaking it down causing inflammation  

and then there is acute liver failure and this  is where you're basically feeling good one day  

and then the next day you are feeling terrible  and you rush to the emergency room so a lot of  

these processes develop over a long time but this  acute failure Could Happen very very quickly and  

now the number one cause is going to be medication  and some of this would be prescription medication  

that's controlled and restricted but most of it  is actually over the counter medication that you  

can go and buy anywhere But even with all these  different causes the number one cause today of  

fatty liver is fructose and that's what we get  in added sugar so table sugar Agave molasses  

high fructose corn syrup they're going to be  50% on average fructose and 50% glucose so if  

you eat a 100 grams of sugar which most people do  based on the average then you're getting 50 grams  

of fructose that is almost as bad as alcohol in  turning the liver fatty and therefore fructose  

is also the driving factor between obesity and  cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and  

a day goes by that we don't hear about how  obesity causes different diseases but it's  

not how it works and it's super important if we  want to try to address some of these things we  

need to understand the difference between a cause  and an association so if they tell us for example  

that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is caused  by obesity then they don't understand really how  

things work because a non-alcoholic fatty liver  is going to be caused by insulin resistance and  

this insulin resistance which is when we eat  too much sugar and too much processed foods and  

too many processed carbohydrates this insulin  resistance is what leads to obesity and then  

this insulin resistance also leads to type two to  diabetes so there's no causal relationship between  

fatty liver and obesity they just occur together  the cause is insulin resistance and just like we  

what we said is the cause of insulin resistance  is primarily fructose it's not the only cause  

excess carbohydrates processed carbohydrates  even seed oils and inflammation have a role in  

this but fructose tends to be the thing that  tips the scale so rather than blaming type 2  

diabetes and obesity for the problem we need to  understand that the cause is fructose causing  

insulin resistance causing these other problems  sign number two is increased thirst which could  

also be part of the metabolic imbalance so if  that's not working now we could have a buildup of  

a waste product called ammonia and if that builds  high enough now it can start affecting the brain's  

ability to regulate fluid balance and also the  kidney's ability to regulate fluid and there's  

more players than that there's also something  called the adrenal gland that makes a hormone  

that tells the kidney how much sodium and water  to reabsorb so I'm only showing you this for the  

relationship to understand that the brain talks to  the kidney and the kidney and the adrenals talk to  

each other and the Brain talks to the adrenal  and then a bunch of things that the liver does  

affects the adrenal so everything is interrelated  so it's kind of like tumbling dominoes that if the  

liver is compromised now it starts affecting all  kinds of other things but it works the other way  

around as well that once you start improving one  aspect now you get a domino the other way where  

it starts improving a bunch of other things which  is what holistic healthcare the holistic Viewpoint  

is that you look at the whole picture and once you  start improving one thing it starts affecting all  

kinds of things sign number three is spider veins  and this is a circulatory imbalance that can also  

be caused by an unhealthy liver and spider veins  are spider like looking veins that are very close  

to the surface very superficial and very small and  the cause is something called portal hypertension  

so that is when the blood pressure increases in  the portal vein and what is that well whenever  

you eat food and that gets digested and absorbed  the blood vessels in the gut takes that blood and  

comes together into the portal vein which is one  big blood vessels that takes it into the liver so  

the liver gets first shot at everything that you  eat it needs to process and detoxify and figure  

out if it's good or bad stuff that's coming in  but now if the liver is compromised if it starts  

getting fatty infiltration and fibrous tissue  now that blood can't flow from the portal vein  

and through the liver so it kind of backs up  and now that blood pressure increases because  

the liver is backed up and that's where we could  get things like these spider veins when that back  

pressure increases and bursts some of these fine  blood vessels but there other blood vessels that  

can also be affected such as in sign number four  you could get hemorrhoids from this same mechanism  

because that's also expanded blood vessels that  are affected by the portal vein and sign number  

five is difficult breathing which could also be  due to the portal veins so here if the pressure  

if the blood backs up and the pressure increases  now some of that water could be squeezed out of  

the blood vessels and into the surrounding tissue  so you get water in the abdominal cavity and this  

is called AES it could result in a big belly in  some cases and the way you could tell from other  

big bellies is that it would be like water if you  push it it would kind of be like a wave floating  

around in the stomach and then some of this  water in the abdominal cavity could actually  

get into the plural space called plural fusion  and this is the space around the lungs there's  

like a double layer with vacuum around the lungs  and if we have water leaking in here and if that  

goes far enough now we could actually compromise  the lungs ability to absorb oxygen and sign number  

six is very low cholesterol so most people are  taught that cholesterol is a bad thing and the  

lower the better well that's not true because  cholesterol is super important and the body  

makes the vast majority of all the cholesterol  that you have and that you use is manufactured  

because we need it so if you have very very low  cholesterol it could be that you're not able  

to make it so what could be the mechanism behind  that well if you have an impaired liver that can't  

neutralize toxins some of those toxins are going  to be heavy metals so now you get a heavy metal  

toxicity and these heavy metals can interfere with  key enzymes involved in the man manufacturer of  

cholesterol Metals aren't the only thing but it  is one example of what could happen and now the  

mechanism the problem is impaired synthesis so  I hope you can start seeing how many different  

functions the liver performs and how far-reaching  it can be and in addition to cholesterol of course  

the liver makes all kinds of things primarily  proteins and it makes tens of thousands even  

hundreds of thousands of different proteins some  of these are blood proteins that help regulate  

the thickness and viscosity of the blood some are  enzymes that perform various metabolic functions  

in the body some proteins are hormones others  regulate inflammation and then we also have  

proteins that are involved with immune regulation  and there are transport proteins and this brings  

us to sign number seven which is muscle wasting  also due to impaired synthesis because some of  

these proteins that the liver make are necessary  for maintenance and support of muscles they don't  

actually make the muscle proteins because that's  made in the muscle but they make other proteins  

that support and enable the muscles to function  and if you start seeing muscle wasting it's going  

to be most obvious in the large muscle groups  first in areas like your thigh the quadriceps  

and your hamstrings but also of course the butt  the Gluteus Maximus so now you're seeing things  

like really skinny legs and a big belly and a flat  butt and a bad liver is not the only thing that  

can cause this it can also be caused by stress  and high cortisol levels and insulin resistance  

but liver is just one more way that this can  happen so if you start putting the signs and  

symptoms together now maybe you can start seeing a  bigger picture sign number eight is taste per and  

this is kind of a weird one to most people and  they're not really sure of the exact mechanism  

but they know with liver damage that it's common  enough that there's a clear association between  

liver damage and a change in taste and it could  be that you get a metallic taste it could be a  

bitter taste or even a lack of taste and some  of the suggested mechanisms would be a change  

in B composition or it could be a deficiency in  nutrients like B12 or zinc and it could also be  

that the liver damage causes inflammation that  affects how The Taste receptors process or when  

the taste receptors send the signal to the brain  there could also be a change in neural processing  

from that inflammation so I think you can see why  it's appropriate that the first four letters of  

the world liver is live and why it's such a bad  thing if your liver is dying but you can also see  

that the signs that we're going through could  have multiple different causes not just liver  

failure and this is why it's so important that  we understand some of the mechanisms and see  

the bigger picture why it's not enough to just  memorize a list it's not enough just to get a  

quick idea we have to become students of Health  today we have to start understanding our bodies  

and why is that because the world has changed  the world has changed more in 50 years than the  

previous 50,000 and most of the thousands or  tens of thousands of different chemicals and  

factors that affect us today your ancestors never  had your DNA was never exposed to these factors  

before so we need to start understanding how they  affect us and a rather sad illustration of that  

is the fact that we today they have a sick care  system where we treat symptoms and disease and  

emergencies and this is costing us $4.9 trillion  this year when I started talking about this 10,  

15 years ago it was three trillion and now we're  in a few years we'll be double that and that  

doesn't mean as I'm sure you've seen that people  are getting healthier. No, the rates of diabetes  

and obesity and cancer it's all going up because  the sick care system is not addressing root causes  

it's only trying to cover things up and the reason  we get so sick is that we don't understand how the  

world has changed or what to do about it how to  make ourselves fit in to this new world and that's  

why I do the videos the way that I do they're a  little bit longer than most but once you invest  

that time now you can start understanding the  mechanisms and you can truly be empowered and  

start taking charge of your health number nine  is restlessness anxiety and agitation and again  

this is when the liver is pretty far gone in  terms of damage and we have something called  

hepatic encephalopathy liver is failing causing  brain damage or even if it's not damaged brain  

it's interfering with the proper function of the  brain so now we have neurological compromise and  

we have toxicity in the bloodstream to the point  where the brain just isn't able to carry out its  

normal function with the precision that we're  looking for and this could lead to sign number 10  

which is mood swings which could have to do also  with irritability or even behavioral changes and  

I'm not going to go into depth on solutions in  this video because I made several other videos  

that talk about that so if you enjoyed this video  you're going to love that one and if you truly  

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