Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and today we're going to be talking about booze, specifically

wine.

And anytime we talk about booze, of course, it's important to take into consideration

your liver after all non-ocaholic fatty liver disease is a huge epidemic now.

And I'm not saying that everybody who listens into this podcast is a lush, but you should

be highly cognizant of your liver because last I checked, you only have one of them.

Now there is an actual wild plant extract.

It's called rock lotus.

I don't know if you've heard of it before, but not only has it been shown to lower your

levels of insulin and insulin like growth factor when you take it prior to a meal, but there

are several studies, specifically some very good clinical trials out of Japan that show

that rock lotus improves liver function and decreases a lot of the issues associated with

fatty liver.

Very, very similar to another compound called bitter melon extract.

Bitter melon extract, you can think of that almost like exercise in a pill.

It activates what's called the AMPK activated protein kinase pathway.

It sounds like a lot, but what that means is that it's the same pathway that gives you

many of the mitochondrial benefits you get from exercise.

And in addition, a form of a wild genotype of bitter melon called glycostat has been

shown to be extremely powerful and can give you just as potent blood sugar lowering properties

as something like the diabetic drug metformin.

And of course, we're talking about all natural compounds when I'm talking about things like

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