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

So, today we're going to talk about early detection of silent liver cirrhosis.

Now, here's the problem with cirrhosis, which is basically scar tissue of the liver.

There is really no symptoms initially for decades until the later stages.

So, you don't really always know that you have cirrhosis.

However, there is one symptom that most people do experience, and that would be feeling sluggish,

and tired.

But that could be coming from a lot of different things, so you might not recognize it.

So, the two categories of cirrhosis are compensated cirrhosis, where the body's compensating.

So, really, there's no symptoms in this phase, and then over time, you develop what's

called decompensated cirrhosis, where you start experiencing all these other symptoms.

So, these are some of the symptoms that you experience when you have cirrhosis.

One is spider angioma, which is something on your skin.

You have this little red dot with these little red spider webs coming out from it.

Xanthomas, which are a little cholesterol spots.

Sometimes you see them around the eyelids, they're yellow, because the liver is not functioning

correctly.

Johnness, where your whites of your eyes become yellow, and also your skin starts to become

yellow.

That's liver damage.

Thinner skin, because you can't make collagen anymore, so you get this paper-like skin

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