so what's all this talk about this this liver thing is is it that important do we really need a liver yes you need a healthy liver and the problem is the majority of population has a fatty liver and a lot of people don't even know that they have fat in the liver until they get an ultrasound or they get a cat scan and then they're they're shocked so i think it's number one important understand about the liver and the importances as well as how to get the fat out of the liver there's a great simple
thing that you can do which i'm going to talk about and there's also a drink that you can make every day to reduce fat on your liver and with some pretty good science behind it and i'm going to put those links down below with each of the ingredient that i'm going to talk about the first thing i want to mention about the liver is that people don't realize that bile is made by the liver they think it's made by the gallbladder no the gallbladder is just a sac that holds the bile but i want to
talk about the importance of bile for a second because the liver makes the bile and the more you understand about what bile does you'll appreciate the liver much much more now bile is a detergent that helps you break down fat but exactly what does that mean break down fat let's say for example this is some fat okay and this is traveling through the stomach you just ate some fat and it's going to be now going down into the small intestine so the stomach will kind of break it down to a certain level but then we
need help from the gallbladder releasing bile to act on this this big clump of fat right so the problem is that um bile needs help to break this thing down and it uses help from the pancreas there's an enzyme and the pancreas called lip base okay lipid meaning fat ace meaning enzyme the problem is that in order for lipase to do its job it needs the bile's help and what the bile is going to do it's going to break down this significantly so there's more surface area for the enzyme to act on so this is
what bile does so the file starts to break this down into small little pieces here so let me just kind of break all that down right here all right so now we have a much greater surface area of fat for the enzyme lipase to do its job okay so simply bile increases the surface area of fat so you can get more of a complete digestion of that fat in the extraction into the small intestine that's where it gets absorbed so without enough bile then the enzyme can't do its job and now you don't get enough
vitamin a the first symptom of a vitamin a deficiency is like night blindness so you're you're driving at night it's raining and you just can't quite see it's hard to see at night okay night vision that's vitamin a i mean vitamin a also counters bad sinus problems if you have an immune system issue so if you have really bad sinuses chances are you could be deficient in vitamin a but vitamin a does a lot of other things as well then we have a lack of vitamin e well that could show up in your heart so
maybe you get more inflammation in the heart in the coronary arteries which shows up as calcification higher levels of cholesterol plaquing things like that other than that it probably won't do anything else i'm being very sarcastic then we have vitamin d let's say you can't absorb vitamin d well that's a big problem because you need it for getting rid of pain you need it for decreasing blood pressure you need it for the formation of calcium in your bones and as well as the absorption of calcium in the small intestine so if you don't have vitamin
d the rate of absorption of calcium is like way way lower with vitamin d you absorb 20 times as much calcium as if you didn't have it so now you have all sorts of calcium problems like bone loss and problem sleeping at night and you name it then we have vitamin k with vitamin k1 and vitamin k2 if you're deficient in vitamin k1 then you get bruising easily you bleed easily you can't clot as well and with vitamin k2 a deficiency of that you have a calcium building up in the arteries as well as the
joints then we have other fats like omega-3 fatty acids you need that to keep your inflammation really low and without enough omega-3 fatty acids you have all sorts of inflammatory conditions arthritis heart problems even dementia because of the involvement in your brain your brain apparently needs a lot of omega-3 fatty acids now the other thing that bile does is it helps get rid of the excess amount of cholesterol let's say for example you decide you're going to lose weight and you get on the ketogenic diet and now all this fat cell is releasing its triglyceride
and its cholesterol that's what's in a fat cell the combination of triglycerides which is can be used for energy and also cholesterol which can't be used as energy so we need bile to help eliminate that excess amount of cholesterol so if you don't have enough bile because you don't have enough capacity of liver function then you end up with gallstones gallstones are created by a super concentrated cholesterol situation because there's not enough bile to emulsify and break it down so we get this crystallization of cholesterol so when people have gallstones they actually need more bile
they don't need necessarily less cholesterol and then you also have people that are on statin drugs which basically block the production of cholesterol and guess what bile is made out of cholesterol this is why the risk goes way up in getting gallstones and all these other issues if someone's on a statin and then the other big important purpose of bile salts is to help eliminate toxins and now your body becomes instantly more toxic because you don't you can't get rid of the toxins that are floating to the liver because the purpose of the liver is
not to store toxins it's to break down toxins into harmless particles so if you can't break them down then and you're taking medication and you're being exposed to planet earth boy you get a lot of extra poisonous things that are flooding through the bloodstream and through your body so we really need this liver to work correctly another symptom of a fatty liver is that you start getting a heavier liver it becomes enlarged and that pressure doesn't fit in the cavity anymore on the right side so it backs up and it puts pressure into the right
side of your neck up to here to the shoulder so you get shoulder pain uh you get a lot of tension in your right trap and that can create a fullness underneath the right rib cage is one of the symptoms and you know people say well i need to flush out my gallbladder well you know you need to get rid of the fat in the liver it's a little bit different than fleshing out anything which i'm going to explain the other important part about the liver is its conversion function from t4 to t3 your thyroid
without a good liver you can't convert the thyroid hormones so you might have hormones there but they're not activated because they can't be converted 80 percent of all the active form of t3 the thyroid hormone works through the liver so without that liver fully functioning maybe you get 70 or 60 or 50 of it being converted and here you are wondering why do i have a thyroid problem there's no reason to have a thyroid problem the problem is not the thyroid it's your liver it's the conversions okay very important the other very important function of
the liver is to buffer um certain excesses of sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone it's not good to have too much testosterone or too much estrogen and so without the liver working right you cannot form the proteins to buffer those hormones and so then we have issues like polycystic ovarian syndrome in women which is too much androgen and we also have too much estrogen and even men they start getting all sorts of problems with breast tissue and low testosterone and the list goes on and on and on now because i talked a bit more on
bile i do want to mention some other symptoms to try to identify if you have low bile okay number one do you have an intolerance to digesting fat when you eat fat do you find that you get more bloating that would be an indication that you need more bile do you find that your stool is light colored like pale or even gray or does it float or does it leave skid marks that could mean that you're low in bile do you find that after you eat you're just not satisfied well maybe because you're not extracting
the fats to be absorbed to then tell the brain like okay i'm done eating that could be a sign that you need more bile if you have nausea or you have indigestion or bloating those can be signs bloating burping belching are classic signs of low bile as well all right so now that you have some basics on the liver and the importance of bile [Music] bile is really important into keeping the fat out of the liver so anything you can do to increase bile reserves is going to help you get rid of a fatty liver
so some people even take purified bile salts and i did put a link down below for more information on that but today i want to talk about a a really simple shake you can make too to help reduce fat on your liver now i just want to let you know that being on the ketogenic diet as well as doing intermittent fasting together can reduce the fat on your liver by 50 in just 14 days if you haven't seen that video i put that down below so i just wanted to give you that foundation first because
it's essential to go on keto and doing intermittent fasting if you have a fatty liver but this shake i'm going to talk about next is a really simple thing everyone can do to keep fat off your liver and it's backed by some pretty good science so the ingredients are simple you're going to use kale you're going to use blueberries and you're going to use kefir okay i would use organic cal and organic blueberries and i would keep them in the freezer okay keep them in the freezer they're much easier to blend so you just take
your blender out and you take two cups of kale frozen and you can break it up into little chunks just put two cups of kale in there because it blends really nicely when it's cold and it tastes better too and then you put one cup of blueberries blueberries not only have curicin but so does kale kirsoten is the ultimate weapon against the fatty liver not to mention its involvement in many other aspects of your health including having a stronger immune system but kercetin is a is a fabulous vital nutrient to target a fatty liver but
there's many other things in kale and blueberries that also help you with fatty liver and liver function in general so we take two cups of frozen kale okay put in a blender we take one cup of frozen blueberries okay we put a cup of water and we also put one cup of plain whole fat kefir okay don't get the flavored kind don't get the sweetened kind get the organic if possible grass-fed if possible whole milk plain kefir that's going to give you the probiotics that you need to reduce fat on your liver so we have
the water the kefir the kale and the blueberries and then you're going to simply blend this up for a couple minutes okay and blend it up really nicely and then chug it down it tastes really good and it's extremely effective in reducing fat on your liver and do that every single day in combination with a healthy keto diet as well as intermittent fasting now if you haven't seen my video on how to reduce a fatty liver within 14 days put it right here check it out you
