Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Now, typically, when you think of herbs for the liver, you think they're very, very

beneficial. And most herbs are very healthy for the liver, especially those that are bitter.

There's all sorts of final chemicals that support the liver. A herb that's very important would

be milk thistle or stinging nettle root, two very, very powerful herbs. There's a lot of plants

that are good for the liver as well. Danline greens is very good for the liver, and there's many,

many more. But there are herbs that are a bit toxic to your liver in large amounts. But the

six herbs I'm going to talk about don't affect everyone, but a certain population they do. So,

I want to bring them up to increase your awareness. So the first one we're going to talk about is

kava kava. Now, kava kava is great for relaxation. It's good for stress. And if you're consuming it

traditionally, you're going to consume the roots. You're not going to do the stems or the leaves.

And unfortunately, certain nutritional companies to save money, they'll use the whole plant.

And that's when you get into trouble because the stems and the leaves are a bit more toxic to

the liver than the roots. Now, the main thing with kava kava is that it should never be taken with

drugs or alcohol because it will tend to hold that chemical in the liver a lot longer. And that's

really what creates a lot of the damage. So it would be like you consuming alcohol, but then you can't

release the toxic effects of alcohol. So that would be a situation. So traditionally, people that

use kava kava, they would chew the root and then they would spit it out. And your saliva has

certain enzymes to kind of deal with the toxicity that would affect your liver. So,

fortunately, we don't do that anymore. All right, the next one is chaperal. And that has been used

for over 50 different elements, including cancer, asthma, TV, skin problems. You name it. Now,

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