- Hey, Dr. Barry here.
In this video I wanna talk to you about
what causes fatty liver.
I think that more and more you're hearing
about fatty liver in the news media
and on videos like this, on Facebook pages
because quickly we're becoming very aware
of how bad having fat deposited in your liver is for you.
Some doctors have known this for years.
Other doctors are just now waking up to this fact.
So you need to know about this.
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So let's talk about fatty liver.
Some of you may have heard of a delicacy
you can get in a really nice restaurant called foie gras.
This is the ground up fatty liver of a goose.
Now this has been a delicacy in human cuisine
for hundreds and hundreds of years.
People have been loving this stuff,
and I've tried it and it's pretty darn good.
I feel bad for the goose a little bit,
but it's really tasty.
And so how do you get a goose to develop a fatty liver?
There's a very specific process to do this,
and doctors have known about this,
not doctors, God bless America.
Farmers have known how to do this for hundreds of years.
It's very simple.
You basically shove a tube down the goose's throat,
and you force feed the goose certain foods
that promote fatty liver development.
Now I'm not gonna tell you right off the bat
which foods you feed the goose
to make his liver deposit fat in there.
I wanna play a little mental game with you
to try to teach you something.
So what the American Diabetic Association
and the American Heart Association
might tell us is if you wanna give a goose fatty liver,
then you should feed him rib eye and butter and heavy cream,
right, because eating fat makes you fat,
and so I'm sure that if you fed the duck rib eye
it would give him a fatty liver, right?
So any farmers out there who know
about how to give a goose fatty liver,
know that that's ridiculous.
That would never work.
First of all it'd be too expensive,
and second of all, the goose wouldn't get a fatty liver.
So no, feeding the goose fat,
is not how you give a goose fatty liver.
And also feeding human beings fat
is not how you give them fatty liver, okay?
In order to make a goose have a fatty liver
you shove a tube down his throat
and you force feed him corn.
Corn, yeah corn.
Not grass, not broccoli, not butter,
none of that, you feed him corn.
Because corn is very high in fructose.
And you may have heard of something
called high fructose corn syrup.
Any corn has fructose in it
as one of the major sugars in the corn.
Your liver will turn that quickly into triglycerides
and store that right there in the liver.
That's how you give a goose fatty liver.
It's also how you give a human being fatty liver
is by eating or drinking lots of fructose.
And so you think well gosh, soft drinks,
they have fructose in 'em,
I bet they will give you fatty liver.
Yeah, you're right, they would.
But what a lot of people don't realize,
is those organic, freshly squeezed fruit juices
are also sky high in fructose,
and they will give you fatty liver
if you drink them daily thinking that they're a health food.
So anything that will increase your ingestion
of sugars or fructose can give you fatty liver.
It's not eating fat, it's not eating rib eye,
it's not eating liver, it's none of those things,
it's eating and drinking sugars.
That's what gives you a fatty liver.
Now in a fatty liver in a goose,
that actually makes us happy 'cause we get the foie gras
and it's delicious and we are happy about that.
But when a human being gets a fatty liver
it can lead to insulin resistance,
it can lead to Type II diabetes,
it can even lead to liver failure.
There are people on the liver transplant list right now,
they started with a fatty liver
from drinking too much coke and fruit juices
and eating too much sugar and starches.
It's actually becoming the leading cause
of people being on the liver transplant list.
It's not hepatitis C, it's not alcohol abuse.
Both of those things are very, very bad for your liver,
and so if you're a heavy drinker
you really need to cut down on that as well,
but the reason I'm parking on the sugar so much
is people just don't realize
how dangerous and how bad it is.
It can literally put you on the liver transplant list.
Okay, so now you know a little bit more
about fatty liver and how to create it in goose,
and how to create it in yourself.
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