are you consuming foods that are damaging and ruining your liver
well i bet you are so i'm going to help you identify the top 10 foods
that you must avoid at all costs if you want to save your liver's health
hey wellness warrior i'm dr zyrowski and it is no secret that many people are suffering with poor
liver health and it's kind of something that is of interest to so many individuals because for the
longest time we saw many people who are drinking excessive amounts of alcohol suffer with liver
health issues but all of a sudden it has nothing to do with alcohol anymore the majority of people
who are suffering with liver issues are just individuals who are not eating properly so that's
why we have to avoid these top 10 foods let's go ahead and dive in because the first on our
list is going to be one that you wouldn't think would be on the list and that's strawberries and
you might ask why in the world would strawberries be on this list well simply because strawberries
are one of the most highest sprayed foods one of the highest sprayed fruits i should say out there
and the fact is is that not only are they sprayed with tons of pesticides and herbicides and a whole
bunch of chemicals that are awful and your liver has to deal with them that has to filter them out
so they don't kill you but the fact is is that these chemicals actually get into the strawberry
and become part of it so it's not just a matter of washing it off it's literally part of the
berry at this point so what you'd have to do is by organic if you wanted to avoid these chemicals now
next on our list is going to be a vegetable this is the highest sprayed vegetable and this is going
to be one that's considered very toxic once again if you're consuming foods with toxins on them
your liver is responsible for protecting you and saving you otherwise if your liver wasn't doing
its job you would just die automatically so this is spinach okay once again same concept as we're
looking at with the strawberries highly sprayed and is very difficult to get these chemicals off
of them and when we look at fruits and vegetables some are sprayed higher than others that's
why it's good idea to look at the fruits and vegetables out there that are highly sprayed and
make sure that those particular ones you are doing your best to buy them organic whenever possible
when it comes to fruit anything that has a peel on it or a shell on it those are fruits that
typically are okay to not get organic but anything like a strawberry or even like raspberries or
blueberries we have to be really careful with those even apples for instance because apples are
a fruit as well that are highly highly sprayed so let's move on to the next thing on our list and
that's going to be hydrogenated oils okay this is a big problem because this is going to be the oil
that pretty much everything that you get from a restaurant is cooked in right because it's cheap
it's inexpensive they use it to fry everything in and so we have to make sure we're avoiding these
because they accumulate in the liver they're high in omega-6s they are highly inflammatory
and they actually can even cause your liver to become inflamed and they're associated with the
development of fatty liver so make sure that you're avoiding hydrogenated oils and anytime
you're eating foods or even frying we want to make sure we're doing it with the appropriate oil so
we want to use like avocado oil or coconut oil at high temperatures we want to make sure that we're
eating good healthy fats but not these bad ones next on our list now is going to be high fructose
corn syrup now the problem with high fructose corn syrup is that it's actually metabolized very
differently in the body and the liver has to do the majority of the work when you consume
this type of sugar and unfortunately high fructose corn syrup is something that's very inexpensive so
you're going to find that it is in high amounts and pretty much any processed foods sodas
anything that high sugar liquid that type of thing we have to make sure that we are avoiding
the high fructose corn syrup at all costs because it's not like cane sugar or coconut sugar it's
very different and very hard on the liver and it's used in very high amounts today so most people are
consuming this on a regular basis daily basis next on our list is going to be refined grains okay now
this one is important because a lot of people don't distinguish the difference between like
a whole grain or an ancient grain in the refined grains that you find in the grocery store now
the reason that these grains are refined like this is because most people actually prefer the taste
of them i mean i'm not going to lie they give you good consistency they give you a good flavor
but the fact is is that many of them have added sugar and then after you go in and you add sugar
and you pull out many of the nutritional benefits from it what you're left with is a carb that acts
like a sugar and so you have this starchy product with no nutritional value because
they've pulled out the protein they pulled out the antioxidants they pulled out the vitamins the
minerals they pulled out everything the fiber even that could be beneficial to you and then your body
is going to handle this carbohydrate now just like a sugar so we got to make sure that we are staying
away from those because all of that remember added sugar and a grain product a refined grain
that acts like sugar in the body is very hard on the liver because it's like a double whammy
now next on our list is going to be canned foods okay and you might ask yourself well
why would canned foods automatically be bad well the fact is is that canned foods have a problem
because many of the cans are lined with bpa and so what they found at the university of california
is that this bpa when given in a higher amount of a higher dose essentially was correlated with
those who would get fatty liver disease and so the thing is that's really important to know about
this too is that sometimes you'll hear well just make sure that the can is bpa free the problem
with a lot of products plastic products and canned goods that are bpa free is that these companies in
order to go bpa free just create another chemical that is a derivative of bpa and now they can say
they're bpa free but in reality you're getting pretty much the same thing you're just getting
a derivative of bpa that maybe hasn't been studied yet and identified to be associated with you know
cancer or fatty liver disease and so we have to make sure that we're just staying away from
like plastic all together and then making sure that we're buying like foods canned foods that
are coming from good sources that are not using chemicals within the lining of the can itself so
next on our list now is going to be msg okay the journal of lipid research found that msg
increases liver inflammation and fat accumulation msg is something that tastes good to the brain
it's something that's found in many fast food restaurants wildly unhealthy for us and also it's
found in a lot of packaged foods too so we have to make sure that we're avoiding that at all costs so
now that we're avoiding the msg and some of these other ones and we're making sure that
we identify the top 10 foods that are going to damage and ruin your liver we have to look to
this next one because i don't know about you but i certainly grew up eating this kind of stuff
and this is fake cheese okay and you're thinking well what would fake cheese be well think velveeta
for instance this what you would think probably tastes pretty darn good because they come up with
this crazy concoction of of this chemically laden i can't call it cheese because it's not what it is
but this product that typically does taste good but the reality is it's just loaded with
tons and tons of garbage and so there are many cheese type of products on the market that are
loaded with oils and sugars and melted dextrin and msg in so many really unhealthy things artificial
flavors and colorings and dyes and so we have to make sure that we're avoiding any of these fake
cheeses out there though they may taste good they are not healthy for you in fact a lot of
restaurants will use these as well so you'll go to maybe a restaurant that's serving some sort of
dish with cheese over top of it melted cheese what's typically a fake cheese if you go to
this grocery store and you're getting some sort of macaroni and cheese or some canned goods that have
a cheese base in them a lot of times it's not real cheese so be aware of that and always make sure
that you're only consuming real cheese if you're going to eat it so next on our list is going to
be non-dairy coffee creamers and i really warn against these because when you look at these what
we talked about like the the refined grains being this double whammy it's like no nutritional value
a carb that also has sugar in it and it just acts like two sugars well and this one is bad
because you know we talked about the hydrogenated oils well now these non-dairy creamers mostly
are made up of sugar and oil and they're pretty bad for you and even the ones that convince you
or try to convince you that they're actually good for you are not good for you at all
my wife actually picked one up from the store and it was like mct oil and it appeared to be
really good except you eventually realized that it was made of soybean oil and a whole bunch
of sugar so it was not good at all but they'll cover it up with a couple healthy products in it
to make you think that it's you know natural and good for you but we've got to be careful
with that because these partially hydrogenated oils as i mentioned are highly inflammatory
you add all that sugar in sugar and inflammation to the liver is very damaging make sure that we're
getting real dairy organic dairy a2 dairy are going to be your best options if you're going
to use a creamer next on our list is going to be one that a lot of people like and so i hate to say
it but it's gonna be popcorn okay now popcorn is a very starchy carb and the fact is if you want to
raise your blood sugar really really fast popcorn is probably one of the best ways to do it i had
an individual that was working with and they're a type 2 diabetic and they were wearing a continuous
glucose monitor and one of the things they told me is how much they love popcorn i said have you ever
actually looked at your continuous glucose monitor in your arm after you ate popcorn and they're like
no we haven't why would we do that i'm like because that skyrockets your blood sugar okay
now here's the thing about most popcorns is that they are using oils on them they're not using
butter they're not using some quality grass-fed butter on the popcorn unless of course you're
making it yourself but a lot of these ones that are instant or microwave that most people
are consuming you're going to find that they're loaded with these bad oils and it's just highly
highly inflammatory the time you consume that bag of popcorn so even when you go to the movie
theaters and you know you get a thing of popcorn and then they put that tub under the waterfall
of hydrogenated oil and it tastes like butter right however it's not so we have to make sure
we're avoiding these things because when we put this huge burden on our liver it will eventually
impact every aspect of our body you know just the liver alone is going to eventually have a negative
impact on the gallbladder and then you see so many people having these negative gallbladder health
experiences they're getting their gallbladder moved all the time gallstones you name it and
then eventually you get to the point where you're getting a whole bunch of digestive issues because
your liver is not functioning well and then you get inflammatory issues and autoimmune issues we
have to make sure we're taking care of our liver it's very important and if you're somebody who's
dealing with a lot of health problems and you start putting some emphasis on liver health using
some natural supplementation that supports the liver using the right foods to support the liver
and of course taking these bad foods out then all of a sudden your health will start to improve it's
very important to do a detox with your liver every so often and put an emphasis on improving
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