The SURPRISING Way To Reverse A FATTY LIVER | Dr. Mark Hyman
Summary
TLDRThe video script highlights the alarming prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affecting 90 million Americans, linked to sugar, particularly fructose. It emphasizes the disease's role as a risk factor for severe health conditions like heart disease and diabetes. The script offers insights into diagnosing fatty liver through blood tests and imaging, and underscores the importance of lifestyle and dietary changes, including avoiding high-fructose corn syrup, reducing starch intake, and incorporating liver-supporting foods and supplements to prevent and reverse the condition.
Takeaways
- 📊 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects approximately 90 million Americans and is linked to major health risks like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and dementia.
- 🍬 The primary cause of fatty liver disease is sugar, particularly fructose, which is abundant in high-fructose corn syrup found commonly in sodas and processed foods.
- 🦆 Foie gras, a delicacy made by force-feeding ducks or geese, is an example of how starch (in this case, corn) is converted into fat in the liver, illustrating the process of lipogenesis.
- 🧪 Blood tests for liver enzymes like AST and GGT can indicate fatty liver disease, but more sensitive tests such as a fibro scan or an MRI may be needed for a definitive diagnosis.
- 🚫 High-fructose corn syrup is singled out as a major culprit in the development of fatty liver and should be avoided at all costs in the diet.
- 🍞 Starchy foods, even those considered 'healthy' like whole grains, can contribute to fatty liver when consumed in a refined form without the benefits of fiber and other nutrients.
- 💊 There are no medications to cure fatty liver disease, but lifestyle and dietary changes, along with certain supplements, can significantly improve and even reverse the condition.
- 🥑 Consuming healthy fats, such as those found in MCT oil, avocados, olive oil, nuts, and seeds, can aid in liver health and healing.
- 🏃♂️ Regular exercise is crucial for improving metabolism, reducing insulin resistance, and decreasing inflammation, all of which are beneficial for managing fatty liver disease.
- 💊 Supplements like N-acetylcysteine, lipoic acid, milk thistle, and B vitamins can support liver detoxification and overall health.
- 🥦 Incorporating detoxifying foods such as cruciferous vegetables, garlic, onions, and herbs rich in sulfur can support liver function and contribute to the reversal of fatty liver disease.
Q & A
What is the main cause of fatty liver disease according to the script?
-The main cause of fatty liver disease, as mentioned in the script, is sugar, particularly fructose found in high fructose corn syrup.
How is fatty liver disease related to common health issues like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer?
-Fatty liver disease is a major risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and dementia because it generates inflammation, impairs detoxification, worsens cholesterol levels, and creates insulin resistance, leading to a cascade of health problems.
What is the connection between the consumption of soda and fatty liver disease?
-Soda, which is high in high fructose corn syrup, is a significant contributor to the development of fatty liver disease due to the high sugar content that leads to lipogenesis, or the production of fat in the liver.
What are some of the tests that can be used to diagnose fatty liver disease?
-Tests for diagnosing fatty liver disease include blood tests such as AST and GGT, a FibroScan which is an ultrasound-like scan, and an MRI of the liver to determine the degree of fat and any scarring.
What is the liver fat percentage considered normal according to the script?
-According to the script, normal liver fat should be less than two percent.
How does the script describe the impact of fructose on the liver compared to glucose?
-The script describes fructose as being absorbed differently than glucose and causing more harm to the liver. Fructose, especially when found in high fructose corn syrup, is free and not bound to glucose, leading to rapid absorption and contributing to fatty liver disease.
What dietary changes are suggested in the script to help with fatty liver disease?
-The script suggests eliminating high fructose corn syrup, reducing starch and sugar intake, and increasing the consumption of detoxifying liver-supporting foods such as cruciferous vegetables, garlic, and onions.
What are some of the supplements mentioned in the script that can help with fatty liver disease?
-Supplements mentioned in the script include N-acetylcysteine, lipoic acid, milk thistle, B vitamins, zinc, selenium, and magnesium.
Why is the script critical of high fructose corn syrup?
-The script is critical of high fructose corn syrup because it is a major contributor to fatty liver disease due to its high fructose content, which is absorbed quickly and leads to increased fat production in the liver.
What is the script's stance on the consumption of starch and sugar in relation to fatty liver disease?
-The script suggests that starch and sugar, particularly in the form of high fructose corn syrup, should be significantly reduced or eliminated from one's diet to prevent or treat fatty liver disease.
Outlines
🍬 The Silent Epidemic of Fatty Liver Disease
This paragraph discusses the prevalence and impact of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), affecting 90 million Americans and being linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and dementia. The primary cause identified is sugar, particularly fructose, found in high quantities in sodas and other processed foods. The paragraph explains the process of lipogenesis, the production of fat in the liver, triggered by sugar and starch consumption. It also touches on the difficulty in diagnosing fatty liver through standard blood tests, suggesting more sensitive tests like AST and GGT, a fibro scan, or an MRI for accurate diagnosis. The paragraph concludes with the alarming fact that fatty liver disease can lead to severe health complications and organ damage, including the need for liver transplants in extreme cases.
🍏 Combating Fatty Liver Through Diet and Lifestyle Changes
The second paragraph focuses on the role of fructose and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the development of fatty liver disease. It emphasizes the importance of avoiding foods containing HFCS and reducing starch and sugar intake. The paragraph suggests that even whole grains can contribute to fatty liver when consumed in processed forms. It also highlights the benefits of consuming healthy fats, such as MCT oil, avocados, and olive oil, which can aid liver healing. Exercise is recommended to improve metabolism and reduce inflammation. The importance of supplements like N-acetylcysteine, lipoic acid, and milk thistle for liver detoxification and health is underscored. The paragraph concludes with advice on incorporating detoxifying foods rich in sulfur, such as garlic, onions, and Brassica vegetables, to support liver function.
🌱 Empowering Prevention and Reversal of Fatty Liver Disease
The final paragraph serves as a call to action, urging individuals to get tested for fatty liver if they have risk factors such as belly fat or a diet high in sugar and starch. It emphasizes the importance of eliminating high fructose corn syrup and reducing starch and sugar consumption. The paragraph suggests a diet rich in detoxifying foods and the right supplements to boost the liver's detoxification pathways and promote healing. It mentions the significance of B vitamins, zinc, selenium, and magnesium for liver health. The paragraph concludes with a reminder of the preventable and reversible nature of fatty liver disease, encouraging viewers to take control of their diet and lifestyle to avoid its devastating effects.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Fatty Liver Disease
💡Sugar
💡Lipogenesis
💡Foie Gras
💡High Fructose Corn Syrup
💡Soda
💡Liver Function Tests
💡FibroScan
💡Inflammation
💡Detoxifying Foods
💡Supplements
Highlights
Fatty liver disease affects 90 million Americans and is a major risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and dementia.
Fatty liver disease is primarily caused by sugar, specifically fructose, which is different from regular sugar and is absorbed differently by the body.
High fructose corn syrup is a significant contributor to fatty liver disease due to its high fructose content and lack of fiber.
Soda is a major cause of fatty liver disease in America due to its high consumption and sugar content.
Blood tests for liver function may not always indicate fatty liver disease unless it is severe.
More sensitive tests like AST and GGT, as well as fibro scans and MRIs, can detect fatty liver disease and its severity.
Fatty liver disease leads to inflammation, impaired detoxification, and a cascade of health problems including high cholesterol and insulin resistance.
Certain populations, such as Latin Americans, may be genetically more susceptible to fatty liver disease.
Fatty liver disease can occur in children and adolescents, with some cases severe enough to require liver transplants.
Lifestyle changes, diet modifications, and supplements can help reverse fatty liver disease.
Avoiding high fructose corn syrup and reducing starch and sugar intake are crucial steps in preventing and treating fatty liver disease.
Consuming healthy fats, such as MCT oil, avocados, and olive oil, can support liver health.
Exercise can help improve metabolism, reduce insulin resistance, and decrease inflammation, beneficial for liver health.
Supplements like N-acetylcysteine, lipoic acid, and milk thistle can support liver detoxification and healing.
Nutrients such as B vitamins, zinc, selenium, and magnesium are essential for liver repair.
Cruciferous vegetables, garlic, onions, and sulfur-containing foods are liver-supporting superfoods.
Fatty liver disease is entirely preventable and reversible with the right dietary and lifestyle changes.
Transcripts
this is affecting so many people
probably a third of America almost never
diagnosed but killing millions and
millions of people a year now there is a
very common disease out there that you
might never have heard about that
affects so many people 90 million
Americans in fact and it's a major risk
factor for heart disease diabetes cancer
and dementia and lots more and it's
called
fatty liver disease or non-alcoholic
fatty liver disease
now what causes it well in a word sugar
and not just any sugar we're going to
talk about the kinds of sugar so pay
attention because this is an easy thing
to fix but it's deadly and it affects so
many people so we're going to cover how
to find out if you have it what causes
it and how to fix it so what is fatty
liver well essentially you know what it
is because you've probably eaten it as a
foie gras or Pate okay this is actually
uh food that's created by force feeding
ducks or Goose geese whatever
starch they basically it's very sad it's
horrible actually it's cruel but they
take a big pipe they stick it down the
duck's throat and then they force feed
them corn which is basically
carbohydrate which turns to sugar
and that starts this process in the
liver called lipogenesis meaning
production of fat which means the body's
normal response to Sugar we also think
for so many years that fat causes you to
be fat but it's actually not fat that
causes you to be fat it's starch and
sugar and not just any kind of sugar
we're talking about fructose in a minute
and why it's such a unique factor in
fatty liver disease so bad news you
don't want frog raw for a liver I mean
basically foie gras means fatty liver in
French so
um and and the biggest cause in America
guess what is soda soda which is a huge
portion of our calories in America
there are literally billions and
billions and billions of servings of
soda consumed in America each year and
and that's what's driving so much of
this problem
so it's it's it's not just
that it's soda but what's in the soda um
we're going to talk about what's in the
soda and why it's so bad and in a minute
but first I want to tell you how do you
know if you have fatty liver well
sometimes you can get your blood test
when you go to your doctor get your
liver test done but they're typically
going to be normal even if you have a
fatty liver unless it's really really
bad
now there are better tests um and some
tests are more sensitive for fatty liver
for example this is a test called
AST which is a liver test also ggt
another liver test these are even at the
high end of normal or a little high I
would be concerned
I also would say that
there are other tests that are more
sensitive for example a liver skin
there's something called a fibro scan
which looks at the liver like an
ultrasound kind of scan and can tell you
the degree of fatty liver and the fact
um of how bad it is if you have scarring
or not in your liver
you can also do an MRI of your liver
and I've had that done as part of a
total body screening MRI and your liver
fat should be less than two percent mine
was but I see people with liver fats of
20 or more which is quite concerning and
that is the big risk factor of all the
diseases we talked about because it
generates inflammation it prevents you
from detoxifying it makes you have worse
cholesterol it worsens your blood sugar
it worsens your insulin it creates this
whole Cascade of problems it's a
consequence of eating too much starch
and sugar so this Cascade is really
driving in some resistance diabetes
pre-diabetes and basically causes all
this organ fat all around your belly
this belly fat this dangerous belly fat
is what really drives so much of the
heart disease diabetes cancer dementia
that we see today
it'll cause things like high
triglycerides or low HDL it'll cause
small cholesterol particles that you can
see on a special scan called NMR lipids
or cardio IQ from a lab core quests
which routinely do these tests now and
that puts you at high risk for heart
disease certain populations might be
more susceptible to this genetically for
example Latin Americans have much more
risk I I went to a conference on Obesity
and uh
it was enrolled on Obesity in children
and I saw this guy who was a
a GI liver specialist there and I'm like
well why are you here he says well we're
now seeing fatty liver in 12 years old
and they're on the transplant list
because their livers are so scarred from
drinking so much soda for so many years
that's scary to me when a teenager needs
a liver transplant from drinking soda we
have a problem
so
what I would say you know
you don't want a liver transplant and
the good news is the good news is you
can actually fix the problem there
aren't really any medications to fix it
unfortunately but there's a lot of
Lifestyle things a lot of diet things a
lot of supplements
and a lot of foods that can make a huge
difference in fixing fatty liver so it's
not only what you don't eat meaning
start your sugar and high fructose corn
syrup but also what you do eat all the
detoxifying liver supporting foods that
we're going to talk about in a minute
so so what what what food should we
particularly be concerned about well
there's been a lot of research lately
about fructose and fatty liver and
fructose is absorbed differently than
regular sugar it just goes right in and
in high fructose corn syrup the
difference with high fructose corn syrup
unlike for example fruit which has
fructose and glucose but it's all packed
in a fiber Matrix with lots of vitamins
and minerals and lots of phytochemicals
and lots of antioxidants doesn't get
absorbed super quickly
that's okay eat fruit but when you have
a high fructose corn syrup it's free
fructose it's not bound to the uh
glucose molecule because sucrose
basically is sucrose plus as is glucose
plus fructose that that's what sucrose
or table sugar is but when you actually
separate out the fructose and the
sucrose
you end up with this free fructose and
it's often not just at 50 50 with sugar
uh with for example glucose it's maybe
75 fructose and that's when you see
often in sodas or anything with high
fructose corn syrup so if you want to
get rid of fatty liver or avoid it do
not eat anything with high fructose corn
syrup in fact there's one thing you can
do to radically change your life is
avoid every single food product with
high fructose corn syrup just get rid of
it there's no need for it it's super
toxic and it has no health benefits in
fact it has a lot of harms and it's just
a sign of poor quality food so make sure
you get rid of all of that and it's in
everything it's in salad dressing it's
in tomato sauce
um I mean there may be more servings of
high fructose corn syrup in your tomato
sauce for your pasta than there is in
two Oreo cookies so get rid of it no
exceptions 100 if you make one rule
about diet no one's going to argue with
that like nobody whether you're a vegan
or paleo or raw food or low-fat high fat
low carb high carb nobody's going to say
high fructose corn if it's good for you
second is starch
so it kind of doesn't matter what it is
if it's starchy or sugary it's going to
be also a problem remember the Ducks who
were force fed corn foie gras well that
is
a form of starch and it sounds like oh
corn is good what's wrong with corn but
actually even whole grain corn is a
problem whole wheat or whole grain flour
is a problem it's just starch and when
it's broken down like that it's a
problem now if it's in whole kernel
bread like whole curl Rye or whether
it's in you know whole beans or whole
grains not as much of a problem
especially if you eat it with a matrix
of food protein and fat it's mostly
absorbed has fiber in it very different
but but if you eat any of that flowery
starchy Foods it's going to dry fatty
liver and that's what's really what's
really driving this I've written a lot
about this I've written in all my books
the blood sugar Solutions and the detox
diet food what the heck should I eat the
vegan diet I go a lot into all this but
it's basically you know below the neck
your body can't tell the difference
between a bagel and a and a soda so when
you're eating a bagel or having a slice
of bread you think you're doing okay and
you're not and you just you need to
think of it like a treat or a drug I
mean I do I have alcohol yeah rarely
I'll have a drink but I don't have it
every day at every meal which is what we
do in America
also you want to do things that really
help to heal your liver now first is
getting rid of the bad stuff obviously
get a starred sugar processed foods next
is up the good fats fat heals your liver
particularly MCT oil which is a
derivative of coconut oil that can be
very helpful
with avocados olive oil nuts and seeds I
mean even saturated fat from from meat
not a bad problem chicken fish lots of
good oils like macadamia oil and
obviously the omega-3 fats are so
important then they're anti-inflammatory
and they they help heal the liver
exercise also exercise will help your
body fix its metabolism fix the insulin
resistance and reduce inflammation
supplements also super important and I I
really recommend people do the right
supplements for their liver and there's
a bunch of them if you have a fatty
liver you want to focus on these one is
an acetylcysteine this is one that helps
you make glutathione in the in the body
glutathione is one of the most important
detoxifiers and antioxidants in the body
sadly there are government agencies that
are looking at quote turning and
acetylcysteine into a drug and only
available by prescription which would be
a tragedy because it's very safe it's a
supplement but it works so well they're
considering a drug which doesn't make
any sense to me but anyway that's what's
happening but n acetylcysteine super
important lipoic acid another important
antioxidant accident that helps liver
milk thistle also it's a great herb that
you can use to help heal your liver and
there are other ones like dandelion
greens and
artichoke hearts and rosemary spices
curcumin lots of things you can use to
help boost your detox system and of
course you also need all the B vitamins
B12 folate B6 to help zinc selenium
magnesium all help your liver heal and
repair so make sure you get those
nutrients make sure you get the
superfoods the other family of foods I
really love are the Brassica family
these are the broccoli
collards kale arugula Daikon radish all
help garlic and onions and other great
family of foods that contain sulfur
cilantro parsley all these are super
detoxifying so make sure that one you
check for fatty liver if you have a
little bit of belly fat or you died as
high in sugar starch or high fructose
corn syrup there's a pretty high chance
you have it so go get some liver
function tests
check our liver scan
see what's going on and then cut out
this high fructose corn syrup cut out
the starch and sugar dramatically reduce
it eat all the helpful detoxifying Foods
and make sure you take the right
supplements to boost your Pathways for
detoxification and heal your liver
things like lipoic acid and
acetylcysteine
um
milk thistle of course magnesium B
vitamins selenium zinc and also you can
eat all these other superfoods like the
cruciferous vegetables the garlic and
onion family they're super liver
supporters so just remember this is
affecting so many people probably a
third of America almost never diagnosed
but killing millions and millions of
people a year and there's no reason for
it because it's a hundred percent
preventable and a hundred percent
reversible if you love that last video
you're going to love the next one check
it out here people even the smartest
people I know do not connect what they
eat with how they feel it's just
mind-boggling to me and then when you
start to connect the dots think wow this
is powerful so uh you need to customize
what you're doing you need all the the
bad stuff you got
Ver Más Videos Relacionados
How to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease Naturally | Jason Fung
The FASTEST Way to Reverse Fatty Liver, Naturally | NAFLD Treatment
Fatty Liver खाना महत्वपूर्ण या व्यायाम || WHAT TO EAT WHEN YOU HAVE FATTY LIVER
Why Fructose causes insulin resistance | Insulin Resistance | Jason Fung
Demystifying Liver Function Tests | Easy Algorithm for Medical Practitioners
कही आप को फैटी लिवर तो नहीं ? || जानें कारण ,लक्षण व उपचार
5.0 / 5 (0 votes)