Doctor Reveals How Dry Cleaning Is Destroying Your Liver (New Study) | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #435

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Sponsored By: → Cornbread Hemp | For an exclusive offer go to cornbreadhemp.com/drg and use promo code DRG for 30% OFF your first order! Get My Brand Masterlist⁠ https://drchristiangonzalez.com/best-brands-form-2-2/ Get Dry Cleaning Guide⁠ https://drchristiangonzalez.com/dry-cleaning-pdf-request-form/ Episode Description You might think liver damage comes from alcohol or sugar. But a new USC study reveals the real threat could be hanging in your closet. If you dry clean your clothes even once or twice a month, you're exposing yourself to Perchloroethylene (PCE)—a toxic solvent now strongly linked to liver fibrosis, brain fog, cancer, and even Parkinson's disease. This isn't just a factory worker problem. For many people, routine dry cleaning is the hidden environmental exposure driving chronic health issues no doctor can explain. PCE doesn't just disappear after cleaning. It off-gasses into your home, absorbs through your skin, and accumulates in your liver and nervous system. And the majority of dry cleaners still use it. Without asking the right questions, you have no idea what chemicals are saturating the fabrics touching your body every single day. And your liver, brain, and nervous system are paying the price. In this episode, Dr. Christian Gonzalez breaks down the USC Keck study and reveals how to protect yourself from this silent toxin: • Why dry cleaning increases your odds of liver fibrosis by 3X • The neurotoxic chemical triggering brain fog, headaches, and nervous system dysregulation • The Cancer and Parkinson's link researchers are now confirming • The exact 3 questions to ask your dry cleaner today to protect your family • The PFAS trap hiding in stain-proof and wrinkle-free fabrics (forever chemicals that never leave your body) • How PCE contaminates local groundwater and creates toxic exposure for entire communities This episode goes beyond your closet. It's a wake-up call about the pervasive, invisible toxins lurking in everyday life—and how to take action now to protect your liver, stabilize your nervous system, and reclaim your health. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - USC Study: PCE Chemical Increases Liver Fibrosis Risk 5x 4:00 - Real Patient Case: Bladder Cancer from Living Above Dry Cleaner 6:22 - What Actually Happens During Dry Cleaning Process 8:12 - Alternative Solvents: Are "Green" Cleaners Actually Safe? 10:21 - PFAS Forever Chemicals in Stain-Resistant Treatments 11:28 - How Dry Cleaning Chemicals Enter Your Body 14:08 - Symptoms of Chemical Exposure: Brain Fog to Liver Damage 16:34 - Questions to Ask Your Dry Cleaner Right Now 19:00 - Safer Alternatives: Professional Wet Cleaning Explained 21:08 - Action Steps to Protect Your Health Today

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0:00.0	If you were told that you had fatty liver or liver fibrosis, instantly you might go,
0:04.8	oh my God, I'm drinking too much alcohol. Oh my God, it must be my diet. It must be my sugar intake. It must be my weight. But here's what no one's really ever going to tell you. For some of you listening right now, the issue might not be alcohol, sugar, your weight. It might actually be your dry cleaning. If you get your clothes dry clean even once or twice a
0:22.6	month, you may be exposing yourself to chemicals that researchers at USC Keck just found out are
0:28.5	strongly linked to liver scarring and liver disease and everyday people. No, not dry cleaning workers,
0:34.1	factory workers, regular everyday people who thought they were keeping their clothes
0:37.9	nice and fresh. This is the part that doctors are not going to really know about, but it's absolutely
0:41.9	going to matter for your liver, your hormones, and your nervous system. Today we are breaking
0:45.9	down why something as normal and invisible as dry cleaning could quietly be contributing to fatty
0:51.8	liver and what to do about it. I'm Dr. Christian Gonzalez, a naturopathic doctor, and a somatic practitioner.
0:57.7	My mission is to protect you, your nervous system, and your organs from constant chemical
1:01.6	noise of modern life.
1:02.8	You know that.
1:03.4	We're being exposed.
1:04.5	And I've seen many mystery illnesses in my life, especially in the chronic disease realm.
1:08.5	And when I look at labs and imaging and all of the stuff,
1:12.1	the environment really tells a big part of the story. And dry cleaning is one of those quiet
1:16.8	environmental inputs that almost nobody is tracking. But there was a new study at USC Keck,
1:23.7	and it showed that this is a big deal. And it came out this week.
1:28.7	It was all over the news.
1:32.8	And I want to talk about this study because it really triggered this show.
1:39.7	I wanted to talk about how are the chemicals in dry cleaning going to affect people's health across the board.
1:42.9	The chemical solvent that they reported on was perchlorethylene.
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