12 Weird Signs That You Have Liver Damage.
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In this video we are going to be taking a
deep dive into 12 weird signs and symptoms of liver damage.
These are very important signs to be aware of,
because you can stop this disease from progressing and getting worse,
As your liver is able to completely regenerate with a little help.
Liver disease is a condition that affects over 25% of people worldwide.
Most people believe that liver damage comes only from drinking too much alcohol,
But it can also be caused by eating
Too many sweetened, sugary or processed foods and drinks.
By consuming too many omega 6 vegetable oils and fast foods
Using pain killers too often like acetaminophen or ibuprofen
Viruses cause damage and hepatitis in the liver
Having too much elemental iron in the body is a problem
And toxins from the environment like pesticides, plastics, petroleum and the list goes on and on.
So if you'd like to find out if there are problems with your liver,
watch this video through until the end,
As we will also be exploring some natural home treatments
to clean the liver and prevent the damage from getting worse.
This video is for educational purposes only,
so do speak to your doctor if you have any medical concerns.
1. Pale Stool (Acholia)
Your liver releases bile acids to help digest fats from your food,
which give your stool it's normal brown colour.
If you have fatty liver disease or liver damage, this bile stops flowing properly,
Causing your stool to become lighter, paler or clay coloured,
and it may float on the top of the toilet water because of the indigested fat.
2. Poor Night Vision (Nyctalopia) If you notice that it’s much more
difficult to focus or see at night,
especially in poor lighting, this may indicate a retinol (vitamin A) deficiency.
The bile from your liver helps you to absorb Vitamin A,
to help the rod cells in your eyes adapt to different levels of light.
Having liver disease however, causes a lack of bile, so that you don’t absorb
enough Vitamin A, triggering "night blindness".
This can also indicate a congested gallbladder,
especially if the eyes also feel dried out, sore, irritated and gritty.
3. Swollen Right Foot (Edema)
When the blood isn't flowing normally through your liver,
it can become swollen and enlarged which puts pressure on the portal vein.
This causes fluid and water to accumulate in the legs or feet,
and when you press your finger into the swollen area, it may leave an indentation (pitting edema).
If you notice the right foot and ankle is more swollen than the left,
this is an extremely common sign that you have liver damage,
And you may want to use a natural remedy to improve its function,
but we will talk more about cleaning your liver later in the video.
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4. White Eyelid Growths (Xanthelasmas)
Another weird sign of liver damage is the appearance of
white/yellowish growths around your eyelids (xanthelasmas).
These are small pockets of cholesterol deposits that
build-up under your skin because your liver isn’t breaking down cholesterol properly.
Causing it to back-up into different areas of the body.
5. Right Side Pressure (Biliary Cholic)
Another sign that you may have liver disease is a feeling of
pressure or pain on the right side of your ribcage, especially after you eat.
Bile from your liver is turning into a sludge because of liver damage,
which is clogging up the little tubes (bile ducts), connected to your gallbladder,
And causing a sensation of pressure and pain around the ribs.
This can also put pressure on the phrenic nerve
causing muscle tightness and pain in the area around your right shoulder.
6. Purple/Red Spots (Purpura)
When your liver is congested, inflamed or damaged
it produces less proteins that are needed for normal blood clotting.
This means that you can bruise more easily, and unusual purple or red bumps can appear
as a rash on the skin, As well as small red patches (ecchymosis).
This often happens around the lower legs or the arms,
caused by the poor blood circulation triggered by liver disease, or possibly diabetes.
7. Cracked Heels (Pellagra)
Your body uses Vitamin B3 (niacin) to keep your skin cells strong,
smooth and moisturised to prevent it from becoming damaged.
If you have liver disease however,
your body uses up its Vitamin B3 stores to help repair the damage.
This leaves less available for other jobs,
causing the skin on the soles of your feet and heels to start cracking.
This can be overcome by loading up on Vitamin B3 and fixing the
root cause of the problem (fatty liver disease).
8. Itchy Hands & Feet (Cholestasis)
Another symptom of liver disease is having a constant urge to scratch or
itch the palms of the hands or soles of your feet.
This condition is caused by a build-up of bile acids under
the skin, because the liver is not filtering them out properly.
This causes histamines to build-up in the blood causing the itchy reaction.
9. White/Clubbed Nails (Terry's Nails)
If your fingernails begin to turn all-white,
losing their pink colour or take on a rounded clubbed or bulbous appearance,
This can indicate that there is some serious liver damage or another underlying
health condition which is preventing oxygen from reaching the nail matrix.
It was discovered in the 1950's that 8 of 10 people with severe
liver scarring (cirrhosis) had all-white nails.
10. Dark Urine (Bilirubinuria)
Your liver has the job of breaking down old red blood cells,
which contains a yellowish pigment called bilirubin.
If the liver or the gallbladder becomes damaged,
this pigment can build-up inside the body and be flushed through the urine,
Causing your pee to have a strong, dark, orange, amber,
brown or cola-colour because your liver isn’t breaking this pigment down normally.
This can also be caused by certain medications that are weakening the liver like antibiotics,
sleeping pills, or birth control pills.
11. Yellowed Skin (Jaundice)
When your liver isn't working property and filtering bilirubin from your blood,
this pigment can also start to change the colour of your skin.
This can cause a yellowish tinge to the skin called jaundice, which is a sign that there
is some serious damage in the liver, such as hepatitis, cirrhosis, drug/medication poisoning.
12. Spider Veins (Angioma)
Spider veins are small red dots,
with spider like extensions of blood vessels that appear on the skin.
These are blood vessels that have become damaged
because your liver isn't doing its job in filtering out excess estrogen.
High estrogen weakens the blood vessels and veins
causing them to dilate and become visible on the skin.
If you have a one or more of these symptoms,
it's highly recommended to visit your doctor and ask for an ultrasound test.
This is a very simple, none invasive test which uses soundwaves to take an image of your liver
and its network of blood vessels, to find out if there are any fatty deposits building up.
Fortunately the liver is one of the only organs in the body that can completely heal and regenerate.
How To Reverse Liver Disease
As I previously mentioned, the liver has 4 different stages of damage,
first it gets clogged with fat, then it begins to develop scar tissue called fibrosis,
which then develops into more severe life threatening stage called cirrhosis.
Fortunately however, the your liver has the ability to completely regenerate
and heal itself when you fix your diet and use the right remedies.
So let's go through the important steps to reverse liver damage.
1. Clean up your diet by cutting back on sugary, starchy and flour based foods like
bread, biscuits, sweets, ketchup, pancakes, pasta, soda drinks etc…
A fatty liver is sensitive to fructose (fruit sugar) in the same way it is alcohol,
so it’s also important to stop drinking fruit juices and alcohol entirely.
2. Eat lots of bitter, sulfur rich foods such as leafy greens, artichokes, radishes,
garlic, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, mushrooms, pasture raised eggs,
wild salmon and other oily fish, walnuts, onions, scallions, and broccoli sprouts.
Foods high in sulfur help to strip away fat from your liver
by boosting glutathione levels and helping to detoxify poisons.
Drink 1 cup of organic coffee brewed at home each
morning and add 1 teaspoon of turmeric. 3. 1 cup organic coffee + 1/2 tsp turmeric.
The polyphenols found in coffee and phytonutrients in turmeric reduce scar tissue formation in the
liver, and also help it to repair damage caused by alcohol, drugs and fructose.
Drink at least 1 litre of high quality mineral water daily,
to thin the blood and help the liver produce bile, in order to break down fatty deposits.
You can add freshly squeezed lemon/lime juice to improve the filtration of toxins in your liver.
I also recommend that you
Get as many liver cleansing herbs and spices into your diet as possible
Such as ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, dandelion root,
Milk thistle, reishi mushrooms, green tea and cloves.
4. Eat all of your daily calories in a 6 hour window, allowing your body 18 hours
to fast each day. I recommend eating all of your food between the hours of 12pm-6pm,
but you can change this to suit your lifestyle.
This is called intermittent fasting (timed eating) and majorly improves
the health of your liver by lowering inflammation, and increasing IGF-1,
a hormone that helps to prevent fat from accumulating in the liver.
Fasting also stimulates autophagy, where your liver recycles old damaged cells and
proteins to regenerate new healthy liver cells.
5. Stop eating all of the inflammatory seed oils such as corn, cottonseed,
canola, rapeseed, soy oil, cheaper processed olive oil etc…
Start eating anti-inflammatory fats instead such as extra virgin olive oil, and virgin coconut oil
in your own home cooked delicious recipes as these have proven liver protective properties.
6. To clean out fatty deposits and lower inflammation in the liver,
take a purified bile supplement in the morning on an empty stomach.
You may use TUDCA, purified bile salts (conjugated bile acids) or a digestive
enzyme blend that contains 'ox bile' in the ingredients list.
These not only help to eliminate fat from the liver, but they also
prevent the formation of gallbladder stones (concentrated cholesterol)
If you are serious about repairing your liver,
there are also other vitamins and supplements that can be used.
6 Vitamins To CLEAN Your FATTY LIVER
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and as always I wish you great health, wealth and happiness.