hey i'm dr ken berry family physician
with
almost 20 years of clinical experience
and today i'd love to discuss with you
fatty liver disease and five things you
absolutely must avoid
if you want to reverse it millions of
people around the world are being
diagnosed with
non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and
non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
these are different kinds of fatty liver
disease
nash is an inflammatory condition
whereas
in afld is more of just a fat
accumulation without
progressing to the inflammation yet now
millions of people are suffering but
there's a way out there's a way to
reverse this
that's very natural very easy and very
inexpensive
and i want to go over the five things
you should avoid and i think there's
actually a bonus thing
but also in this video i want to talk to
you about three myths
that you may have heard about fatty
liver that if you follow them
they're not going to help you reverse
your fatty liver at all
so let's talk about this so you've been
you've been diagnosed with
nafld or nash or fatty liver
now what here we go so there is no
fda approved pill or injection for fatty
liver
although big pharma has spent billions
of dollars trying to come up with one
the reason for this is that fatty liver
disease is caused by your diet
and you will fix it by changing your
diet permanently
to a delicious healthy diet that's
that's sustainable and full of good
nutritious
natural real foods that you can eat for
the rest of your life
as you reverse and get rid of your fatty
liver and
never get it again but now let's first
talk about
the traditional advice you may get from
your doctor so you go
you're diagnosed in your follow-up
appointment your doctor says okay
you need to avoid all alcohol and you
need to avoid acetaminophen or tylenol
i totally agree with both of these
recommendations
you need to be a teetotaler if you've
been diagnosed with fatty liver
alcohol needs to not pass your lips
again because alcohol
is a poison that makes your liver work
harder and if you've already been
diagnosed with fatty liver
you don't need alcohol at all zero not
red wine for the
for the the the good antioxidant none of
that no
no alcohol no tylenol no acetaminophen
because it is
absolutely metabolized by the liver and
your liver doesn't need any extra duties
while it's trying to get rid of the fat
that that's been accumulated there
now on to other traditional advice that
you may get which can be very
vague and very obtuse and leave you
going okay
so how do i do that stuff like eat a
healthy low-fat
diet what's that mean exactly eat lots
of fruit and
veg is that good advice or is that
actually bad advice
uh perhaps drinks fruit smoothies
perhaps do
liver cleanses which either are things
you buy from
that provider or buy off the internet
perhaps
they tell you to drink more fresh
squeezed fruit
juices is that good advice or is that
bad advice and then always
the last two pieces of this traditional
advice is to exercise more and lose
weight
okay thanks for that now let's talk
about uh the problem with that advice
first of all that's the same advice
you've been getting for your entire life
from your healthcare provider your
dietitian is your your nutritionist
yeah we want to lose weight we want to
exercise more we want to eat a healthy
diet
but let me give you now some very
specific advice that i have seen people
use
to reverse their fatty liver disease
hundreds of times
to not only make the fatty liver go away
but make it stay away
and that's the things i'm going to talk
to you about in this video
non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or
non-alcoholic steato hepatitis
the fatty liver conditions they're all
about sugar
they're all about fructose they're all
about insulin and they're all about
inflammation that's what causes them and
when you get rid of those things that's
what's going to reverse
your fatty liver disease so i'm going to
tell you the five things plus a bonus
thing that you need to avoid
completely while you are reversing your
fatty liver disease but first
i want to tell you three myths and
you'll you might hear this from your
health care provider
or after you got home from your
diagnosis you might have googled
fatty liver disease and came up with
these things
you might have heard to eat a low-fat
diet to avoid fats
and so there's really two different
kinds of fat that i'm going to talk
about more in a minute
but the healthy good fats have nothing
to do with storing fat in your liver
eating fat
does not make you fat and eating fat
does not
cause fatty liver that is a medical myth
a a nutrition superstition that's just
not true
number two is that uh eating lots of
protein is hard on your liver you should
eat a low protein diet again there's
absolutely no meaningful research that
backs this up
nothing shows that at all that is a
medical myth and a nutrition
superstition number three is
uh what's number three oh fried foods
you should avoid fried foods
uh there's nothing magically good or
magically bad about fried foods
it all comes down in what did you bread
the food with
and what did you fry it in and we're
going to talk about that more
down in the five things okay that's
three myths you can forget about those
those are meaningless myths they don't
help you at all
now let me talk about the five specific
things
that you can implement as soon as this
video is over
and start to immediately reverse your
fatty liver disease
number one is you need to avoid sugar
in all of its forms obviously the bad
the the five pound bag of sugar you buy
at the store
obviously any kind of pre-sweetened
sugar added
anything you need to avoid sucrose which
is sugar
is made up of glucose and fructose
when you eat sucrose or sugar and this
can go for
this is also applies to the natural
sugar sources like honey
and agave nectar when you eat those the
glucose
in that causes an insulin spike
and the fructose in that does is not
metabolize the way normal sugar is
fructose is absorbed through the portal
vein straight into your liver
and when you've eaten the glucose along
with it which is how you get
fructose you can't just get it by itself
even in high fructose corn syrup you're
still getting glucose
so with your insulin already spiked
because of the glucose
load then the fructose is immediately
converted into a triglyceride which is
stored in your liver
so you got to stop the sugar in all
forms
and you may say well god that sounds
like a lot of trouble that sounds like i
love
sugar yeah you've been diagnosed with
fatty liver disease which
will progress to steady hepatitis and
will
progress to cirrhosis and ultimately to
liver
failure this is not a joke this is a
very serious diagnosis you've got
that's the bad news the good news is if
you avoid these five things
and do the other things i tell you about
on my other youtube videos
you'll get rid of the fatty liver and
you'll keep it going forever you've got
to get rid of the sugar
number two is soft drinks whether
they're sweetened with just
sucrose table sugar or whether they're
sweetened with high fructose corn sugar
sweetener sugar either one of those is
terrible for your liver
the high fructose the high fructose
version is probably worse
but there's not a lot of research about
this and there's also
billions of big food dollars out there
trying to keep that quiet
so but you need to avoid all sweet and
soft drinks whatsoever
i would also minimize sugar-free or
artificially sweetened soft drinks as
well
we're grown-ups here you don't need to
drink your your soft drink your soda
every day anymore
you've been diagnosed with a liver
medical condition
so you gotta stop the soft drinks number
three
fruit juices now wait a minute i thought
i thought i should eat lots of fruits
and vegetables why do they always say
that way with fruit in the front i'm not
sure
no you don't need to eat lots of fruits
definitely not
eating an occasional piece of raw fruit
is not a big deal there's a lot of fiber
in there that slows down
the absorption of the glucose and
fructose so it's probably not a big
thing i would not make fruit a big part
of your diet
that might be your dessert since you're
avoiding all sugars is you might have a
little cup of berries
or an apple or something as dessert but
that's that's
the that needs to be the extent of the
fruit that you eat but fruit juices
are just concentrated forms of the
liquid sugar that's in fruit
if you drink a glass of orange juice
that's you're getting the fructose
from four or five oranges
that's way too much fructose you you
have to stop the fruit juices
and that includes the fruit fruit juice
smoothies and maybe the
liver cleanses out there you you need to
understand there's
no research that shows that any kind of
liver cleanse that you buy on the
internet is going to help your liver at
all
what you've got to do is stop doing
these five things
and then do the other things i talk
about that's what's going to reverse
your fatty liver
number four is you have to avoid grains
this includes wheat corn oats
rice amaranth millet quinoa
all of them you got to avoid all these
because they are full of carbohydrates
and you can do a quick search on the
internet and say what are carbohydrates
made of
carbohydrates are long chains of sugar
that's what they are there's no
argument about that grains do not have
anything in them that will help your
liver at all
there's no meaningful nutrition in
grains that you can't get
more of from better sources okay
number four grains have got to go and
now and so when i say that i'm talking
about from the
cheapest white bread that you can buy at
the discount store
to the most expensive stone ground
non-gmo
ancient wheat bread that costs 42
dollars
a loaf they're equally as bad for your
fatty liver they have to go
number five is industrial seed oils
remember
i said before they said stop eating
fried foods
if you're frying that food in these oils
then you need to stop that immediately
and start frying your your good quality
whole food
in real fat which we'll talk about
but what are the industrial seed oils
they are canola
soybean oil peanut oil corn oil
cottonseed oil
safflower oil sunflower oil those are
the major
ones stop cooking in those stop adding
those to your food
if you want to use a plant-based oil
then sun um
coconut oil is great olive oil is great
if you i i prefer the the animal oils
like lard bacon grease tallow butter
those are the fats that i use in my diet
none of those good fats will
increase your risk of fatty liver or
make it worse
but the industrial seed oils have a very
high
omega-6 to omega-3 ratio which is very
very inflammatory for your liver and
your other body parts
uh it's not that all omega-6s are bad
that's not the case it's if you're
getting
too much omega-6 versus omega-3s that's
where the problem
arises and so now the bonus tip
is you've got to stop snacking you need
to eat either
two or three discreet meals during the
day
in an eight-hour feeding window and
otherwise
you've got to stop the snacking in
between meals because that's going to
keep your insulin level elevated
which remember we talked about earlier
is going to cause
any amount of fructose you've got in
there or any amount of sugar to break
down into fructose and then you're going
to store
that as fat in your liver so there you
go now i've got two other videos about
fatty liver disease and i'm going to
post them here and here you can click on
those and watch them right now
and then also down in the comments
section or down in my the description
i'm gonna post the diet that once you've
gotten these six things out of your diet
you can follow even more a real whole
food ketogenic diet is the only diet
i've ever seen
reverse fatty liver disease and i'm
going to post a link to my playlist
which has over 50 videos about the
ketogenic way of eating
that you can watch at your liberty and
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