- Hey, this is Dr. Ken Berry, family physician,
and I am so excited to make this video for you.
Over four billion people on this planet
suffer from fatty liver disease,
non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
And there is now a proven diet that will reverse
fatty liver disease.
And that's what we're gonna talk about in this video.
So many people think that fatty liver disease
either in children or in adults
is just something that you're cursed with,
you have no choice in the matter,
you're just stuck with that.
Currently 40% of obese children
have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
It is the most common chronic liver disease
in children now.
Huge deal.
And so, I'm so excited to bring you this information
that's gonna help you
either reverse your fatty liver disease
or to help your child reverse their fatty liver disease
with this proven technique.
As you may know, the typical advice for fatty liver disease
is to move more, eat less, restrict your calories,
or burn more calories than you take in.
This is the standard advice for people with fatty liver,
although it almost never works.
There's no research to back that recommendation up.
It fails in 99% of people who try it.
Because basically what they're telling you to do
is to starve yourself for the rest of your life,
and no mammal can do that, not even you.
There's no drug currently that is FDA-approved
for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
and there's not a drug on the horizon.
And so, this is excellent information for you
to be able to reverse your fatty liver disease now.
Most healthcare providers who take care of patients
with fatty liver disease, either children or adults,
have become so flustered by the lack of results
that their recommendations get
that bariatric surgery, gastric bypass surgery
is quickly becoming standard of care
for people with fatty liver disease, and that is terrible.
In this video I'm gonna explain to you a method
that is not only clinically proven
in thousands of clinic hours by both me
and other low-carb doctors,
but now has research-based proof to show that it works.
So if you know someone with fatty liver disease,
whether it's an adult or a child,
then please, please consider sharing this video with them.
You're welcome to share this video
in your groups, on your page, anywhere.
Instagram, Twitter, I don't care,
as long as we can help
the four billion people on this planet
who suffer from needless fatty liver disease.
That's my goal.
Now, with over four billion people on the planet
suffering from this dangerous condition, fatty liver,
you would think that we would have multiple
randomized trials that were well-performed, in humans,
to figure out what's causing this and to reverse it.
Well, surprise surprise, there's not one.
Until now.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers
have done a study,
and most of this video's gonna be about that study
and what it showed,
and then how you can immediately take
what they found in this study
and what I found in my 20 years of clinical experience
in the clinic,
and you can apply that immediately to your life
to start to reverse your fatty liver.
So what they did is they took 32 children, human children,
not rats, not dogs, not pigs, humans
between the ages of nine and 17 years of age
who had verified fatty liver disease.
Now this is not from alcohol or acetaminophen overdose,
this is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
just from their diets.
All of these children were overweight if not obese
because those go hand in hand in kids.
They randomized these kids to either eat a low-carb diet
or a low-fat diet.
The low-carb diet, the macros broke down
as 25% carb, which I would consider not low-carb enough,
25% protein, and 50% fat.
That's what half the kids got, randomly.
And then the other half of the kids got
a low-fat diet which consisted of 55% carbohydrates,
25% protein, and 20% fat.
So basically, it was a low-carb diet
versus a low-fat diet.
Now, which one do you think did the most
and reversed the most of the fat out of these kids' livers?
You might be surprised,
so watch this to the end and find out.
So they did this for eight weeks,
and for the first two weeks of the study
they actually bought the groceries for the kids.
All the kids and their family had access
to registered dieticians,
they got routine appointments with the dietician,
they got all kinds of education on what to eat,
what not to eat, they gave them meal plans.
And so, they made it very clear on the low-carb diet,
this is what you need to eat,
this is what you need to avoid.
And then also, the same goes for the low-fat diet.
They said, this is what you need to eat,
this is what you need to avoid,
and they made it very clear to both groups.
And remember, these kids were randomized
into group A or group B.
Nobody knew where they were gonna wind up.
So there was no researcher bias that was able
to get into this study
like is so easy for the bias
to get into observational studies.
Both groups, and then so for the first two weeks
both groups were given groceries.
One group was given low-carb groceries,
the other one low-fat groceries.
And then for the last six weeks,
they bought their own groceries
but they still had access to the registered dieticians
explaining to them what they need to do.
At four weeks in, they did a three day food diary
so that the researchers were able to tell,
yep, this kid's still on track,
they're still eating the proper diet
that we've set them up, we've randomized them to eat.
Both groups were told, and this is very important,
both groups were told to avoid junk food,
to avoid just processed crap and carbs,
to avoid soft drinks.
And so, both groups were avoiding junk food.
That's very important.
So even the low-fat group,
they weren't eating the standard American crap,
they were still eating whole fruits, whole vegetables,
and lean meats.
You got that?
So that's very important,
because a lot of people said oh, well yeah,
if you compare low-carb with real whole food
to somebody eatin' the standard American junk,
obviously that's gonna do better.
But both of these groups were eating real, whole foods.
So now lemme tell you what this study actually looked at,
what it measured.
And so, they took all these measurements
I'm about to tell you
at baseline, before the study began,
and then they took all these again at eight weeks
after the study finished.
And they did these studies in both groups.
So in both groups before the study started
they got a magnetic resonance imaging of their abdomen.
This is by far the gold standard
to look at fatty liver.
Ultrasound's good, but MR is better.
And so, both groups got an MR of the abdomen
looking specifically at fatty liver,
how much fat was in their liver.
Both groups got a DXA body composition scan
both at the beginning and at the eight week mark.
Both groups got lab work including a fasting glucose,
a fasting insulin, a lipid panel, and an hs-CRP.
And the result of that are also recorded
in the conclusions of this study,
which is very interesting.
Both groups had their HOMA-IR,
it's a calculated measure of insulin resistance,
calculated at the beginning and at eight weeks.
And then they had their resting energy expenditure
calculated at the beginning and at eight weeks,
because the second big point about this study
is that there was no calorie restriction in either group.
What they did is they did an REE,
and they tried to figure out for this kid
how many calories do they need today
to maintain their weight?
So there was no calorie restriction.
This is enough calories,
this is the calories you were eating before,
this is the same amount of calories,
and the calories were the same in both groups.
So there was no calorie restriction in either arm.
Hugely important for the conclusions of this study.
So you with me so far?
Okay, now let's talk about
what the results of this study were.
And they're exactly what I expected them to be,
but I think many healthcare providers
and many parents and many people who suffer from fatty liver
will be blown away by the findings of this study.
So at the end of the eight week study
when they crunched all the data, here's what they found.
The low-carb group lost 2.4% of their body fat.
The low-fat group lost 0.4%.
'Kay?
The low-carb group lost 5.5% of their total fat mass
in their total body by DXA scan.
The low-fat group lost 0.1%.
'Kay, got that?
Now here's the biggie.
For liver fat, the low-carb group lost 32%
of their fat in their liver.
32%, a third of the fat in their liver was gone
after eight weeks of a low-carb diet.
And this diet, in my opinion, it was a lower-carb diet.
It was nowhere near a keto diet
or even what I would consider a low-carb diet.
But still, it was a relatively low-carb diet.
How much liver fat did the low-fat group lose?
1%.
So once and for all, we can put to bed the myth, the lie
that eating fat will make you fat
or eating fat will cause fatty liver.
It does not work that way.
A low-carb diet removed six times as much fat
as the low-fat diet.
So I mean, there's just no way.
Now both groups, what about,
you said oh, but I bet the low-carb group
lost some muscle mass, right?
Both groups held their lean body mass
the same through the entire study.
The DXA scan picked up no change in muscle mass.
So no, the low-carb group did not lose muscle mass.
The low-carb group had a significant reduction
in their liver labwork, their ALT and their AST
were significantly lower than the low-fat group
at the end of this study.
The low-carb group had a significant reduction
in insulin resistance by the end of this study.
The low-fat group did not.
The fasting insulin levels, the lipid panel, and the CRP
were stable for eight weeks in both groups.
Neither the low-fat or the low-carb group
really was affected with those labs in mind.
Keep in mind, both groups got the amount of protein
they needed to hold their weight
and the amount of calories calculated to hold their weight.
So this was not calorie restriction.
The low-carb group just ate fewer carbs
than the low-fat group.
That's the only difference.
This is the first randomized trial to ever be done,
that I know of, in the world
about low-carb diets and fatty liver.
I think that if they had done an even lower-carb diet
they would've seen even more stunning results.
But this is a great leap forward for everybody in the world,
all four billion of you who suffer from fatty liver disease.
So once again, lemme sum up the findings of this study.
I want you to listen very carefully.
And this is one of the reasons
I need you to share this video,
because this is not equivocal at all.
This is very cut and dried in this study.
And there wasn't just a tiny 1.18% difference,
these are big differences, okay?
So the low-carb group lost more body fat
by about four times as much as the low-fat group.
The low-carb group lost six times as much liver fat
as the low fat group.
Huge difference.
Both groups maintained their lean body mass
and their muscle mass on the DXA scan.
The low-carb group had no signs of inflammation
that the low-fat group didn't have.
They had no signs of any kind of disease that popped up.
And again, the liptic panel, their total cholesterol,
their LDL, their HDL, their triglycerides stayed the same
from the beginning of the study to week eight.
It had no effect on their lipid panel
whether they were low carb or low fat.
And that's a huge deal.
So once and for all, calorie restriction, portion control,
calorie deficit, none of that is going to help you
reverse your fatty liver disease.
A low-carb diet is the way to reverse fatty liver disease.
I think this research study pretty much puts it to bed.
Now this research has been presented as a poster
at a recent American Diabetes Association event
and it has been accepted for publication
in a peer-reviewed journal.
I have a full copy, but you can't get a full copy
as of the making of this video.
But as soon as it's accepted and published
in the peer-reviewed journal
I'll be able to post a link to the full study.
And I want you to share this video to the heavens
because there's so many people
whose doctor is still telling them,
just move more and eat less, that's all we got.
It hasn't been proven to work,
but that's all I can tell you,
I don't know.
Join Weight Watchers and join the gym.
Stop giving that terrible advice, healthcare providers.
And patients, stop listening to that.
Say wait a minute, isn't there a study?
Because now you've got the study.
All right.
Now I've got four other fatty liver videos
on this channel already
because that's what a big deal it is.
So I'm gonna put a link here and here
at the end of this video
so if you wanna learn more about fatty liver
or even fatty pancreas,
you can click one of those links and see more about that.
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This is Dr. Berry.
I'm so happy to make this video, and I'll see you next time.