liver cleansing detox that's what we're going to talk about we're going to talk about the foods best for that smoothies shakes and supplements one thing that I think is a kind of a misunderstanding about the liver itself the liver does not hold or store toxins okay it gets rid of toxins it's the main organ that turns these fat soluble poisons into a water salable substance that is no longer poisonous and then it gets rid of it through uh the bile ducts with the help of the bile and when we talk about cleansing we're really talking
about cleansing the liver of fat and also uh inflammation or scar tissue and the more fatty the liver the more scar tissue and the more inflammation the less it has the capacity to detox and there's this whole Cascade of amazing enzymes in the liver that help uh take this very severe dangerous poison all the way through to the point where it's it's no longer poisonous you can even get rid of 50% of the liver's fat through going on a low carb diet this is called a ketogenic diet so I want to get into very specific
foods but you just need to know if you go on low carb with intermittent fasting you can drop a lot of fat off the liver really fast and the less fat the liver has the more it can do its job the liver is about three and a half pounds the size of a football and it's really robust it takes a baiting and it can do its job just with 20% of the liver cells left and it is the only organ that can completely regenerate itself but there is a point of limitation you can get to
the point where it's so filled with scar tissue that's called therosis that you know you're going to have to get on the list for a liver transplant and a lot of times people don't have any symptoms in the initial phases of liver problems uh other than some fatigue but one real simple way to know if you have a fatty liver is just to look down and see if you could see your stomach protruding out because abdominal fat is a good indication that you have liver fat now as far as what causes the liver to become
fatty you might say well alcohol right well that's definitely something that can cause it but there's also something even more common called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and that condition mainly comes from fructose okay now where would you get fructose fructose is in a lot of the sugars that people consume like table sugar has fructose beet sugar honey fruit all are about half fructose and half glucose so if you're eating a lot of sugar and drinking your sugar as in high fructose corn syrup like all the sodas and juice and fast foods chances are you have
a fatty liver not to mention regular wine and frequent snacks uh will all contribute to a fat liver so what are the best foods to to help heal the liver to help strengthen its ability to detoxify right at the top of the list you have something called cruciferous vegetables that would be like kale arugula broccoli cauliflower collar greens mustard greens brussel sprouts bok choy horseradish cabbage these are very unique vegetables that don't necessarily give you more enzymes but they Trigger or induce more of your own body's phase one phase 2 enzymes to help you break
down chemicals and there's also very specific natural chemicals they're called phyto chemicals or phytonutrients in cruciferous that are even more potent than other things okay like sulfurane in broccoli Sprouts or micro Greens micr Greens are basically just uh about a 10day old uh baby vegetable versus Sprouts might be like between 3 to 7 days but but radish Michel greens or Sprouts or U broccoli Michel greens or Sprouts are loaded with sulfurane so what I like to do instead of just using regular lettuce for my salad I like to use the arugula Leaf because that's going
to more potently do a lot more good than regular lettuce another vegetable that's really good for the liver is beets beats help increase B production uh which can help get rid of toxins from the liver that they just been broken down beets can help increase the flow of bile so then that bile can actually help eliminate all the toxins that you your liver just broke down beets also trigger this phase one phase 2 detoxification so what you can do is you can shave some raw bead on your salad or just steam beets and consume beets
and just as a side note fruit is not really good for the liver because you're going to get a lot of fructose but berri especially the blueberry can help you reduce fibrosis in the liver and it's anti-inflammatory even though it is classified as a fruit but it has a lot lower sugar than other fruits you might think that uh to get rid of fat on the liver you have to go in a lowfat diet no you don't you have to go on a low carb diet get rid of the sugars because that sugar then converts
into fat the fattiest foods like eggs and organ Meats like beef liver and grass-fed beef and fatty fish all are loaded with this other nutrient called choline that very potently gets rid of fat off your liver actually choline is even part of your own bile so it's kind of a a detergent for fats and take a while guess what has the most choline egg yolks beef liver and fatty fish but you can also get some choline in things like broccoli so it's not just about going on a low fat diet there's also other fats that
help get rid of fat off your liver and that would be the omega-3 fats which I just touched on fatty fish but salmon Seafood grass-fed beef sardines are all high omega-3 fatty acids that can greatly help the liver as well as decrease inflammation in your liver on the flip side Omega 6 fatty acids all the seed oils like the corn oil the soy oil safflower oil all of these things that are high in Omega 6 actually create more problems for the liver so I don't recommend consuming those and unfortunately we have way too much of
those I think uh nowadays an average person consumes 30 times more omega-6 oils than they should and it's hidden in restaurant Foods it's in fried foods uh they use it in salad dressings mayonnaise and many many other Foods now as far as the Protein that's needed for the liver to function you need high quality protein that would be eggs grass-fed beef and fatty fish you don't want to go on a no protein diet because these amino acids are very very necessary to help heal the liver but then again you also don't want to use lowquality
protein especially the plant based protein powders the soy protein powders whey protein is also hard on the liver it's a refined product there's no fat the liver actually does better if you consume foods that have the natural fat with the protein Probiotic foods are very healthy for the liver that would be sauerkraut kimchi and keer and pickles those are some main foods that are really good to help strengthen the detox and also get rid of fat off your liver and also decrease inflammation let's switch gears to smoothies and shakes there's two really good ones and
they both use blueberries okay so you get some blueberries like a cup and one of the shakes you're using frozen kale so what I like to do is take a bag of kale from the grocery store and then just put it in the freezer freeze it solid and then when you're ready take a like a couple handfuls of kale put it in the blender okay take a cup of blueberries put that in the blender fill it up with water just above the material blend it for like 30 to 45 seconds and you have yourself a
delicious really healthy liver cleansing Shake another one I like to use is with kefir don't get the one that has low fat whole milk and it could be either sheep uh milk or goat milk but don't try to get the lowfat one of course try to get the grass-fed and and organic if you can but that Kefir is better than regular yogurt because it not only has the bacteria it has the friendly yeast and a lot more microbes what I like to do is take a cup or two of kefir and a cup of blueberries
and you may have to add a little water to it maybe a half of a cup sometimes you don't I would first try it without the water because sometimes the Kefir is more liquid it really depends on how liquid the Kefir is and then you blend it for 30 seconds and drink that down it's delicious and so you have this probiotic uh blueberry uh liver protecting shake and then with the kale you're actually drinking your cruciferous vegetable and it's raw it's frozen it goes right in and it really helps your liver now as far as
a drink goes the best drink for the liver would be a combination of apple cider vinegar and lemon the apple cider vinegar uh can help strip fat off the liver uh it also can help uh support blood sugars and make insulin more sensitive helping you correct insulin resistance which is at the heart of a fatty liver and also lemon is very very sour and it too has choline and other things that can help support the liver it has a lot of vitamin C it can help reduce inflammation take two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar put
it in a glass uh you can take uh one lemon squeeze the lemon from that one lemon into the glass and you have about 12 ounces of water and then drink it with a straw sometimes I'll take the whole lemon put that in the blender with about 12 ounces of water two tablespoons of alpet vinegar blend it down so I have some additional cool properties of that lemon peel that you wouldn't get from the lemon juice you can use actual lemon uh juice but just realize it's usually pasteurized it's heated because vitamin C gets destroyed
with heat so if you just take an actual lemon and Juice It Yourself uh that's always the the best now as far as the supplements go that are good for the liver full transparency I do sell a liver cleansing supplement but as far as nutrients go these are the best things for the liver at the top of the list would be milk thistle milk thistle is used as the antidote to poison I'm talking about uh poisoning from mushrooms talking about snake poisoning I'm talking about being poisoned from Tylenol and many other poisons it's quite amazing
milk thistle basically has this superpower to protect the liver but it's also good for a fatty liver it's also good to get rid of inflammation and to prevent scar tissue of the liver and that term is called sorosis choline I mentioned that before uh you can get that as a supplement too choline helps strip fat off the liver then we have turmeric okay that's really powerful for the liver too as an antioxidant it helps reduce inflammation in the liver and it's been known to help you reduce fat on the liver too purifi bile salts are
also good to reduce fat in the liver and a lot of people are deficient in BIO and so things kind of back up uh from the bod duct and when things back up you can't detoxify so part of detoxification is allowing things to flow through the liver and bile salts many times can open up the stuck flow so things can flow through and out through into the small intestine probiotics are really good for the liver as well and the last remedy would be something called tokat trinal This is a type of vitamin E that works
50 times stronger and it's really good for an inflamed liver and that's called hepatitis but any inflammation uh on the heart or the liver can be uh helped using Tok trinal so it can inhibit fibrosis because if you think about vitamin E is you can rub it into the skin to help get rid of scar tissue well tokat trinal is really good for scarring of your liver now there's one more video that I highly recommend you watch okay and this video has gotten a lot of views because it's an awesome video you should check it
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