Today, on the exam room.

The liver is the body's filter.

It's there to take the toxins out of your body.

If it can't function, you can't survive.

What we discovered is we could pull a third of the liver fat out in the first 16 weeks.

So it comes out fast. That liver fat it builds up

year after year after year. But when you're not consuming the animal fat at all and very little

vegetable fat, that fat just comes out. And so the fatty liver is effectively cured. Drilling down a little

bit more, the foods that in large research studies seem to be associated with effect the most are the vegetables

and fruits as a group. Something about the vegetables and fruits seems to be helpful. So it's

not just a question of avoiding animal products. It's emphasizing the vegetable and fruit group.

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Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs, coast to coast, and around the world.

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This is episode 33 of Season 9, number 732 overall.

And today we are going to be tackling a silent health crisis that is affecting millions and millions of people around the world, but doesn't really get talked about.

It's going to be talking today about fatty liver disease.

So just how common is it?

Well, check this out.

One in three people worldwide are estimated to have fatty liver disease, and here in the

United States, it's about one in every four adults that are living with it.

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