#1 Absolute Best FATTY LIVER DETOX

Hello Health Champions. Did you know that fatty  liver is a condition that affects over 2 billion  

people today and if they don't make any changes  to improve on it, it can lead to scarring of  

the liver and even death. Most people who have a  fatty liver don't even know it but to make things  

worse if they were to find out and wanted to do  something about it most of what they would be told  

would be the exact opposite of what they needed to  do to fix it and for most people when they try to  

fix it they go about it the wrong way they think  in terms of superfoods what can I take for this so  

what foods help cure a fatty liver then people ask  what fruit is the best is apple good is milk good  

what about curd almond turmeric yogurt what about  honey or banana they're looking for something to  

fix it rather than asking what caused this problem  so is there an amazing herb is there a magic  

potion is there some supernatural root that we  can take I'm not saying that there aren't things  

that can help but we don't want to start looking  there but almost all of the blogs and videos and  

articles are about that because it gets the views  and it sells products but the problem is we're  

still stuck in a medical mindset which is about  treating something what we need to realize is  

that the body can fix this there was an imbalance  that created it and we don't need to treat it we  

need to reverse the imbalance the number one  thing to understand is the order of things  

so if you're fighting a fire and you're doing  pretty well with a water hose what if someone's  

standing next to you with a gasoline hose now that  water hose is going to have no effect whatsoever  

and it's the same thing with the body that most  the vast majority of the results are going to come  

from stopping the cause we have to stop  adding the thing that is causing the problem  

and then we have to provide some resources to the  organ in question so if the liver has an important  

job that requires certain raw materials then we  have to provide those raw materials and then maybe  

we can add the last few percent maybe five percent  would be these so-called magic potions that i call  

them sort of tongue-in-cheek that could be garlic  turmeric coffee green tea milk thistle and I'm not  

saying that these are good or bad what I'm saying  is don't start there because just like the fire  

not having any success with the water  hose until you remove the gasoline hose  

you're also not going to have any success  until you stop the insult the thing that is  

causing the problem but what is that root cause  then if we look a little further they tell us  

that one root cause is to be obese or overweight  and is that a problem is that a cause no that's  

a correlation because you can have excess weight  without being metabolically unhealthy or having a  

fatty liver so it's not a cause it's a correlation  next we have type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance  

and there I absolutely agree insulin is a storage  hormone high levels of insulin over a long period  

of time creates insulin resistance and then  the body will be in a state of congestion  

we are storing too much and that is a whole  problem when we store too much a little bit  

everywhere it's going to affect the liver as  well and then there's something called metabolic  

syndrome which is just like a diagnostic group  term for the same thing which includes insulin  

resistance high blood pressure high cholesterol  and high triglyceride levels one more criteria  

is a large waist circumference and the only thing  I don't agree with there is the high cholesterol  

because it depends on the type of cholesterol  just because we measure a high total cholesterol  

or a high LDL that does not mean that we have  an unhealthy situation we need to look at the  

size and health of the particles which would  indicate the state of inflammation and oxidative  

stress in the body so everyone pretty much  agrees that it's about metabolic syndrome and  

insulin resistance this congestive state  but then what causes that which foods  

create this metabolic problem and which foods  make the fatty liver worse well they tell us  

then to avoid poultry except for lean white meat  they tell us to avoid full fat cheese and yogurt  

except for low-fat yogurt we should avoid red meat  and any goods including palm oil or coconut oil so  

what do these all have in common well obviously  they're high in fat especially saturated fat and  

even after decades of research turning the picture  around then we still get these recommendations as  

if saturated fat was something bad the reason fat  got a bad wrap was that for decades we ate trans  

fats and margarine and those fats are horrendously  bad for us but they sort of grouped all the fats  

together and they didn't realize that the real  culprit was actually next on the list which is  

sugary items candy soda and any added  sugars including high fructose corn syrup  

so interesting is they spend most of their time  on the fat but then they throw in the sugar  

as causing fatty liver even though it's fat free  because sugar is the real problem sugar turns  

into fat but also we'll talk about some  more sugar is a toxin to the liver next step  

of course is to look up how to fix the fatty liver  and these four steps are the standard medical  

treatment this is how they would address  it in a standard medical model so first  

they want to avoid alcohol and is that a good idea  absolutely yes because there's no doubt alcohol  

is a toxin to the liver especially in large doses  but what I would want to know is why is sugar not  

on that list as well because there's way way way  more people especially children who use sugar  

that don't use alcohol next on the list  we have losing weight is that a good idea  

maybe but it's not the problem in this case like  we talked about number three taking medications  

to control the diabetes so they know that  diabetes is a problem and associated and a cause  

with fatty liver but when they say to control  diabetes with medication they're talking about  

blood sugar and if you treat blood sugar  with insulin or something that will  

force down the blood sugar now you're making the  body more insulin resistant so unfortunately there  

is a trade-off here and most of the medications  that they use to control diabetes actually makes  

insulin resistance worse and if it does then  those medications basically just shove more stuff  

into the cell including the liver so those  meds are going to make the fatty liver worse  

and number four is to take some vitamin e  which may be a good idea and also to take  

some thiazolidine diodes and I had to practice  that word for quite some time to get that right  

and how then do these thiazolidine diodes work  well they could theoretically be sort of a good  

idea but not really addressing the root cause  however when you have insulin resistance then  

the cells are resisting both sugar and fat because  insulin pushes sugar into the cell and then that  

sugar turns to fat so now the cell has too much  sugar and fat if we can reduce the fat in the  

bloodstream then there is less overall pressure on  the cell so what these drugs do is they take the  

fat from the bloodstream and they kind of shove it  into the subcutaneous fat cells so it's basically  

just redistributing which can help the metabolic  situation but you guessed it the side effect of  

that is that it causes weight gain so on the one  hand we're trying to reduce weight by lessening  

insulin resistance but then they give us more  medication that causes weight gain so the standard  

medication that acts like insulin that's going to  make weight gain and insulin resistance worse but  

these thiazolidine thiazolidinediones are going  to cause weight gain but in a different way and  

possibly reduce pressure the insulin resistance  a little bit but then again why don't we just  

eat fewer things that stimulate insulin a lot of  people will ask if fatty liver is reversible or  

what stages of fatty liver are reversible so  a normal liver looks something like this the  

next stage would be that it's infiltrated with fat  this is an NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease  

or alcoholic fatty liver disease now the thing to  understand is classically alcohol in alcoholics  

was what created a fatty liver but today probably  99 or more of all fatty liver in the world  

is not caused by alcohol but rather by sugar and  so far this liver is not too terribly unhealthy  

those cells are not really pathological yet the  cells are filled up with fat but it's just sort  

of a container the container isn't damaged yet it  can still do most of its job but if we let it go  

any further that's where we get some real problems  if we let it go one more step now we get something  

called NASH or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and  the "itis" gives us a clue there. "Itis" means  

inflammation so normally a fatty liver is  associated with insulin resistance which is a  

low-grade chronic inflammation but this is a much  higher level this is a more intense pathological  

inflammation where the cells of the liver  are breaking down to a much higher degree  

if you look at your blood work they'll typically  include two enzymes called ALT and AST where ALT  

is the most specific for the liver and if you have  an inflammation and the cells break down now these  

enzymes start spilling out into the bloodstream  and we can measure elevated levels now in the  

second level with just a fatty liver you will  probably not see an elevation of these enzymes  

so for a milder form of fatty liver there's really  nothing on the blood work that's going to tell you  

directly that the liver is in trouble but once  we get to number three here with inflammation  

we're gonna see significantly elevated levels so  if you see higher numbers it's probably a sign  

that you're slipping from stage two to stage three  and finally number four is where we get scarring  

of the liver also known as cirrhosis and now it is  probably not reversible to any significant degree  

but what we want to keep in mind is the vast  majority people are still going to be at the  

second level the fatty liver without significant  inflammation and this is just as reversible  

as insulin resistance we just have to stop putting  in the offensive compounds the sugar and the carbs  

and the toxins and the alcohol and so on and if we  get into number three and the longer it stays in  

number three it's probably still reversible but  it can be more difficult and it's going to take  

a lot longer now let's get into the solutions so  if we understand that the metabolic syndrome the  

insulin resistance is at the root of this how is  that affecting the liver what are the mechanisms  

and the first is overload the liver is getting  more work than it's equipped to handle basically  

number two would be inflammation and like I said  hepatitis is a stronger form of inflammation but  

when we're talking this general inflammation it's  a low-grade chronic inflammation that's associated  

with metabolic syndrome and number three is  lack of resources the liver is very hard working  

and if we wanted to do work we have to provide  some fuel and some resources for it to do that  

so let's look at these in a little bit more detail  overload is basically three things that we give  

too much one is sugar two is alcohol and three is  toxins so with sugar what we need to understand is  

that things like bread which has glucose in it  that raises blood glucose that's not nearly as  

hazardous for the liver because the glucose  can be processed by every cell in the body  

but these three the sugar which contains 50  fructose 50 glucose the fructose portion can  

only be processed in the liver the alcohol  and the toxins can only be processed in the  

liver so all the other stuff gets spread out  over all the cells in the body but these three  

we overload the liver because it's the only thing  that can handle those and the toxins that only the  

liver can handle are things like medications  and pesticides and heavy metals and so forth  

and even though very small amounts don't  hurt us the liver is equipped to handle that  

if the liver is overwhelmed with other things  then these small amounts of toxins can also start  

building up and hurting us the low-grade chronic  inflammation that causes a lot of these problems  

is associated with the congestion that results  from high levels of insulin and this metabolic  

syndrome number two is vegetable oils and I want  to clarify a little bit because a lot of people  

aren't clear on what they are I get a lot of  questions sometimes they're called seed oils but  

they could be made from seeds grain or legumes  the seeds usually used would be things like  

rapeseed also called canola it could be safflower  or sunflower seed the grain they use is corn and  

the legume is typically soybean oil and why are  they so bad well they're not really easy to get  

the oil out of the seed or the grain or the legume  if you take something like an avocado or an olive  

those oils are typically very healthy because  you can cold press it you just apply a little  

bit of pressure to the olive and you get oil  whereas these you have to apply extreme pressure  

combined with extreme high temperature and  sometimes even solvents like petrochemicals  

to extract the oil and that makes this a very  oxidized very damaged very toxic product so before  

it ends up on the shelf and they have deodorized  it and cleaned up the flavor so it has absolutely  

no flavor it's gone through so much that it is  very very unhealthy at that point another reason  

they're bad is that plant oils typically are very  high in omega-6s relative to omega-3s and that  

pushes everything into a pro-inflammatory state  also number three is food allergies if you're  

sensitive to something then it creates an immune  reaction and it creates inflammation so this does  

not apply to everybody but if we want to avoid  certain foods we want to try to avoid the ones  

that affect the largest percentage of people and  those are wheat dairy corn and soy and number four  

item causing inflammation is stress so stress  you're going to see on virtually every list  

and we'll come back to that a little more and if  we want to heal a fatty liver we have to make sure  

there is no lack of resources what are  the resources well certain amino acids  

like methionine and cysteine they're used  to make glutathione and that's the body's  

primary antioxidant it's like a cleanup molecule  basically and here's the interesting thing some of  

the richest sources are going to be beef chicken  pork and eggs the things high in saturated fats  

that we're told not to eat next we have choline  the choline is a b vitamin it's very important  

for energy production it basically helps the liver  dissolve that fat that has been built up if the  

body needs to burn through that fat it's going  to need lots of choline so if we're low in these  

then the liver can't do its job some of the  sources again egg liver and dairy and here is  

where the cruciferous greens come in that if you  want to take care of your liver you basically eat  

meat and vegetables animal products and lots  of vegetables lots of cruciferous greens  

one more thing we need is plenty of bile so  here's how that works bile is a fat emulsifier  

the liver makes bile and then it puts the bile  into a little pouch called the gallbladder  

and along with the bile the liver also dumps  a lot of the toxins that it is processed  

so the way for the liver to get rid of them  get them out of the body is to put them in  

the gallbladder and then when the gallbladder  empties this ends up in the bowel for elimination  

but if the liver isn't making enough bowel because  it's not healthy or if we're eating a low-fat diet  

if there's no fat in the digestive tract there  is no signal for the gallbladder to empty the  

bile and then the toxins are going to stay in the  gallbladder and if the gallbladder can't empty out  

the toxins then the liver can't put new ones in  there so the whole system backs up so a low-fat  

diet is just not a great idea for so many reasons  and number four is stress and here i want you to  

really pay attention because anyone can give you  a list of foods but here is where you really start  

understanding more about how the body works  so what does stress have to do with the liver  

not recovering well basically it's about blood  flow there are many other things as well but  

stress increased stress is going to reduce  blood flow and why does that matter well  

the blood if you think about it everything the  liver needs and everything the liver gets rid of  

like nutrients and toxins has to be in the  bloodstream and all the fuel and all the resources  

for the liver also has to be in the bloodstream  so if we have less blood flow then it's like we're  

turning off the faucets of the supply faucet  to the liver and this goes so much further  

than just the liver you have something called the  autonomic nervous system and that's the part of  

your nervous system that handles everything that  you don't have to think about so your heartbeat  

and your breathing your digestion and your blood  flow and growing fingernails and making enzymes  

all of that is handled for you by your autonomic  nervous system and this system is basically a  

resource allocator it decides where do we have  to put the resources in this moment based on this  

situation and then we have two branches called the  sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system  

and they're basically responsible for  defense or repair sympathetic is your stress  

response anytime that you have a stress response  you're going to put your body in a defense state  

and then what's going to happen is you're going to  increase this side at the expense of that side so  

any time that you have a stress response you're  going to decrease repair so basically you can  

defend yourself or you can repair stuff but you  can't do both at the same time and the thing about  

stress is that it's not about how you feel or how  you think you feel it's about how your nervous  

system has been programmed and conditioned  to respond to your everyday environment  

and most of that conditioning is in place  by age five so that is why relaxation and  

meditation and exercise is so important because  doing those things regularly will help your body  

balance these two things but if you get stuck in  the sympathetic in the stress response which the  

vast majority of people are then you are defending  yourself you're sending most of your resources  

to heart and muscles at the expense of sending  resources to liver and vital organs so anytime  

you stress it's basically like you're shutting off  the faucet the supply line to your vital organs  

and to your liver so essentially you can worry  or you can heal your liver but you can't do both  

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