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Hello and welcome to another Fat Emperor podcast short where we help explain some of the

science around health. And today we're going to talk about some blood test basics. Actually the blood

test marker GGGT, also called gamma glutamal transherase, or gamma

Gt, and basically this is a liver enzyme. So we're going to start off with talking a little

bit about the liver. So the intro is the liver as the seat of modern chronic disease because the liver is so important

in so many processes and basically if you look at it simply many things in our diet our nutrition

and lifestyle can cause the liver to become dysfunctional we have excessive sugars or refined carbs

certainly we have genetic tendency can make you very predisposed towards liver injury from your diet and other inputs. And suboptim vitamins and minerals have a place and certainly an excessive amount of omega-6 vegetable oils can be challenging to

the liver or if you're very low in omega-3 fish oil type components. So these things over time,

if you indulge or over-indulge, can lead to the liver becoming somewhat insulin-resistant and to you becoming hyperinsulinemic.

And the two are very tied together.

So it's almost, it could be put simply as the hyperinsulinemia drives the insulin resistance.

And the insulin resistance in turn over time encourages the hyperinsulinemia.

So it's the combination of both that's very challenging for future health, morbidity, mortality.

And fatty liver is the thing that occurs when you are pushing things too far and you are

heading into a very dangerous place.

And when you develop fatty liver, you'll almost

certainly see a rise in your GGT, your gamma glutamal transferase. And it's a simple, cheap blood test,

so it's a really good thing to keep an eye on. Now, when you're pushing your liver and your body

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