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

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

Now there are seven things in a lot of foods that will ruin your liver, and I wanted

to increase your awareness on this because a lot of people are being exposed to these things

on a regular basis, and they don't know it. And as far as your liver goes, you're about

as healthy as your liver. Your skin is a reflection of the liver. If your liver is bad,

your skin's not going to look too good. The liver is a huge organ. It's like three pounds.

It helps you with digestion. It helps your blood clot. Mainly, it helps you detoxify

it. It turns poisonous things into harmless things, okay? And so let's dive right in and go

through the list. Number one, you want to avoid soy protein isolates. Here's a big question

about soy protein isolates. What do you think they do to isolate this protein from soy?

Well, they use chemicals. It's highly processed. They have to go through a whole series of things

to extract this concentrated protein. And to do that, they have to use something called hexane.

That's a petroleum byproduct. It's a solvent. It's not good for the liver. It's actually a neurotoxan.

And so when you look at like diet shakes or diet powders or protein bars or veggie burgers,

always read the label. I don't recommend consuming it if it has soy protein isolates.

The way I was introduced to soy protein isolates is that I had a series of people that came into my

clinic that were on the diet that was called ideal protein. And that was a major ingredient in this

so-called healthy ketogenic plan where it had very low carbs. But it also had very, very low fat,

okay? And very, very low quality ingredients. And so it was filled with soy protein isolates.

And I noticed when people got on that program, when they lost weight and they did lose weight,

they didn't look healthy. And a number of them develop a series like liver inflammation,

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