I would like to share with you one of the worst foods you can eat for your liver, especially if you are worried about having fatty liver. And I give you a clue. It's not the sugar, it's not the carbohydrates.
This particular ingredient isn't even alcohol, fructose, or corn syrup. And while sugar, starch, high-fructose syrups or juices are really dangerous for the liver, there is something that is much worse. Now, the number one problem with the liver is that when it is damaged or sick, it gives few symptoms.
We may even believe that we are healthy. There are people who can have liver problems for a long time, I don't know, more than 20 years and they don't know it. Or worse yet, other people may have some symptoms, but they don't connect the dots, that is, they don't know that they may be due to having an inflamed liver.
Pay close attention in the early stages of liver disease, many may feel pain in the shoulder or in this part of the neck, often in the region behind the scapula, or also just below our ribs on the right. Be careful not to always have these parts of the body sore or tense , because it may not be simply a muscle problem or poor posture. It may be that the liver, the bile ducts, the gallbladder, are asking for help and the problem may be advancing silently for years without you knowing it.
You may also feel chronic fatigue, diffuse pain throughout the body, unexplained. All this for being inflamed. But despite that, know that liver problems detected in time can be completely reversed.
And here a great myth arises that I want to talk to you about, because many people believe that if you have liver problems once , you will have them forever. This is absolutely false, it is a myth. The liver is one of the few organs that can regenerate completely 100%.
But of course, if we know how to cure it and if you follow the advice that I am going to give you today. And another big problem is that many people, when they discover that they have some liver disease, go to the doctor and hear that there is no longer a cure, because unfortunately the majority detect this when there are already serious complications such as severe fibrosis, cirrhosis, malignant nodules that can indicate cancer. of the liver, to name just a few of the irreversible complications.
The key is to notice these first symptoms years before. Other ways to detect it early is when we do a blood test and it shows that we have an inflamed liver or elevated liver enzymes. Can this happen even if we don't have any symptoms or when having an ultrasound for any other reason and seeing that our liver is swollen or that we have fat in the liver and then we wonder why this is happening?
One of the answers is due to the consumption of these foods that I am going to tell you about today. And if you were not doing prevention until that moment, you still have time. It is precisely the time when we must act and stop consuming these dangerous toxins.
Another myth is that the liver is full of toxins or that this organ accumulates toxic substances. That's not true. In reality, it is this organ that detoxifies the poisons we consume and cleanses our blood.
They are not stored by fat cells, that is, our adipose tissue is actually where these poisons can accumulate. The liver's job is to get rid of these toxins. Now, when it is very damaged, after many years, it reaches the point where the liver begins to accumulate scars, fibrosis and develops cirrhosis, and at that point it loses the ability to eliminate these toxins.
And for all these reasons, the risk of also developing liver cancer increases considerably from that moment on and the best treatment that can be offered at that stage is a liver transplant. Being on the list waiting for a healthier organ. Luckily, many manage to survive to the point where they receive a new or less damaged organ, but then, if you have a transplant, you will have to take remedies to avoid rejection, such as prednisone, among many others, and also deal with the adverse effects of these medications.
The simple solution that I propose today is to avoid consuming these toxins, preventing and combating liver problems. from the earliest stages. One of the worst foods or ingredients for fatty liver or liver in general is seed oils.
These oils are very inflammatory, harmful, toxic, especially in the way they process it. Now notice how the industry can confuse many people, because in their advertisements or on the labels they call it vegetable oil. And this may make many people think that they are healthy, but nothing could be further from the truth.
They are poisons in disguise, especially in the dosage in which all of us consume it every day. These oils should be called omega six excess oils or pure linoleic acid oils or at least have an alert or warning on the label that they contain this excess fat. Look in Latin America, 25 to 30% of the total calories we consume come from these oils.
And this happens because they are ingredients in almost everything we consume. Baking products, bakery products, most packaged foods , desserts, and many other things. These oils, such as corn seed, soybean, sunflower and any of the others, can contain more than 50% omega six or linoleic acid.
Of course there are exceptions, I'm going to tell you about them, but the problem is that when we heat these oils they become even more toxic, they oxidize, they burn generating a series of substances more toxic than the oil itself and these poisons are impregnated into the food. In our body, they damage and destroy our cells, especially those of the liver and those of our central nervous system. It also becomes inflamed in our brain.
That is why these oils must be eliminated from the diet. They are very inflammatory. I'll tell you healthier alternatives.
I advise you to start reading the labels and ingredients of the foods you eat and also that when you go out to eat at a restaurant, ask what type of oil they use. I would personally avoid any fried foods or any foods prepared with these types of oil. I wouldn't go to those places anymore .
If you stop consuming liver toxicants today and replace them with healthier things, in one or two years you will be able to have a repaired liver, completely regenerated and like new, as long as you do not catch it in very advanced stages. And there is another even more serious problem, which occurs in restaurants and also in our homes, and that is that we not only use these harmful oils, but we reheat them over and over again. In some places they reuse them more than ten times.
Can you imagine the amount of toxic byproducts that are released from this burning oil and we ingest them? But then, what should we do to avoid all this? The first thing I want to make is an important clarification.
The linoleic acid or omega six that I mentioned before is essential for human health, since our body cannot manufacture it and therefore we must obtain it through the diet. This seems like a contradiction to what I've told you so far, but it's not. Look, Omega six is very important for cellular function, for your skin, for your internal organs, for the brain and for the regulation of your metabolism.
However, and here is the secret, the problem today lies in the balance between the consumption of Omega six and omega three. Both types of fatty acids are essential, but they have very different functions in our body. In general, omega threes tend to be anti-inflammatory, while some omega sixes cause inflammation when consumed in excess.
And that is the problem. These oils have incredible quantities. An excess of Omega six is practically pure omega six, and it is precisely this loss of balance with healthier substances that promotes inflammation in our body, which is associated with various chronic diseases.
It is not only liver problems, but also heart attacks, arthritis, cancer, among many others. Now, what are my three tips? Number One Remove or eliminate all seed oils from your diet.
Start reading the ingredients of everything you buy in the market and when it says the label omega six or linoleic acid is the main ingredient or among the first to appear. do not consume it. Number two, I recommend that you consume more healthy fats that contain omega three, such as fish or its oils, extra virgin olive oil or extra virgin avocado.
These are vegetable oils that can promote the health and proper functioning of our body. Another example is oil. High oleic sunflower oil that is very different from the common sunflower oil that we buy in the market.
Although the best way to obtain benefits from these oils is to consume them cold, add, for example, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil when the dish is already served. Avoid heating them. We can eventually use them to brown or bake some food, but in small quantities using a spray or removing the excess with a napkin and not cooking them at high temperatures or for a long time so that they do not burn.
To cook, I recommend that you use virgin olive oil or virgin avocado oil, which burn the least at the temperatures we use for cooking. And I never recommend that you fry your food. You can also obtain a better balance between good and bad fats by consuming walnuts, almonds, dried fruits in general, chia seeds, flaxseed, and tip number three, reduce the amount of red meat you consume, which also contains a large proportion of unhealthy fats.
. I'm not telling you not to consume them more, just not to eat them every day and try to replace animal protein with some healthier protein of plant origin, grains, for example. Or also that they consume more egg white, which is a healthy animal protein, that they also consume egg yolk, especially those free-range eggs or organic eggs whose hens were fed naturally.
This has a good proportion of omega three. Add more cruciferous vegetables like broccoli or fermented foods like sauerkraut, cabbage, things like that to your diet. More plants, more green leaves.
All this is very good for the health of your liver.
