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catch up with you at the end of the video. Eric Bakker, naturopath. Thanks for coming
back. Liver function. We all like a drink. Let's talk about liver enzymes, ALT, AST,
I think there's GTT, gamma-glutamyl transferase, alanine transaminase, and aspartate transaminase,
I think they are, there are three main enzymes. Now, when these enzymes, which are produced in
the liver, get spilled into the bloodstream and we can see them through way of a blood test, it means
that liver is damaged. One of the chief things we find today is NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver
disease. So if I went to LA right now, or better still, go to Las Vegas, if I went to LA now,
and I just, say, went down to Santa Monica beach and I picked 50 people off the beach, and I tested
each of those 50, I reckon about 15 or 20 would come back with signs of the non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease. Man, they've got some good pizzas there at Santa Monica. I went to this pizza shop,
crazy place! But yeah, fatty foods, alcohol, obesity, the wrong kind of food,
liver disease, with hepatitis, for example, I think acute hepatitis you're going to get AST will
be higher. ALT with many different liver issues. But how do you lower ALT? How do you lower liver
enzymes? Well, the first thing I would do is look at a person and look what they're eating
and drinking and say, "Hey, come on, man, you can't do this. Stop. Put that glass of beer down,
that Schlitz beer, put that down. Put that pizza down. Put that whiskey down." Alcohol's a big one,
of course, for the liver, but the second big one is sugar. Okay? Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Sugar's the prime one. Now, today it'll no doubt be high-fructose corn syrup or crap like that.
So don't eat this crap, eat honey instead, it's such a sweet food. But I don't see the fascination
with eating foods with all these artificial sugars and manmade sugars in them. So they're junk.
The fructose is a bad one for the liver in particular.
So how do you turn this condition around and get rid of these enzymes in the blood?
Well, you do what you're probably not really happy about doing is, you've got to eat green stuff.
Spinach, broccoli, plants like that. Plants hone folic acid, or folate is the natural source
of vitamin B9, we call it folate, but folic acid is a manmade one. Folic acid's pretty good to take
as well. Many people will complain, say it's not. But you're far better off getting folate,
your B9, from green, deep greens, like I do, asparagus. We're eating lots of asparagus at
the moment in New Zealand, it's beautiful. We've got Swiss chard, spinach, asparagus, broccoli,
all those sort of foods. This is what's going to really make the liver happy. You want to make your
liver happy? Have some spinach, all right? And keep away from deep fried stuff.
Swap your oils out for extra virgin olive oil, try and get rid of all those vegetable oils. Try not
to deep fry foods. And if you're worried, go and get a blood test done. There could be hepatitis
there and something like that. So it's worth getting checked out. Overweight or obese people,
fatty liver. That's probably going to be it. And it could be just too much carbs, basically.
Another good tip for your liver, Swedish bitters. I've spoken about that one a lot. So five mils or
a teaspoon of Swedish bitters per day. Anything bitter in the mouth is fantastic for the liver.
All right? Now, if you think of it, it's the opposite of sweet. Sweet ruins of liver,
bitter improves liver and digestive function. So bitter things, dandelion leaves, for example,
then milky sap from dandelion, very good for liver function. And you'll never have bowel problems if
your liver's working well, you'll be pooping every day. All right? Thanks for tuning in.
It's Eric Bakker again, the naturopath. I hope you enjoyed that video. Remember, go to
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