Let's talk about how to diagnose your liver by using your foot.

Of course we're not actually diagnosing the liver, you have to go to the doctor for that,

but you can get a lot of clues by looking at certain parts of the body, especially the foot, to be able to understand

what's going on on the inside versus taking every one of these clues and treating them directly

with a different medication or a skin cream or maybe

even a diuretic because you have a DEMA. So today I'm going to kind of really connect the

dots with a lot of different symptoms that relate to the foot.

So let's start off with these red and brown spots in the lower part of your leg.

You probably have seen that with people with diabetes, which they usually have liver problems.

But if someone has like cirrhosis or hepatitis or even a severe fatty liver,

a lot of times the circulation is so bad in the lower part of their body you'll see these little red and like kind of a rust color brown maybe sometimes scaly little dots or pigments that looks a little bit like a bruising.

So the liver has a lot to do with the clotting factors, vitamin K, and when you lose the liver

function you can have a lot of things like bruising and discolored spots in different parts of your body.

And you'll also notice that the lower leg is very swollen and shiny and there's no hair growth anymore.

And you probably also notice that the skin is very thin,

almost like paper thin.

And that's partly because of the swollen nature of the fluid retention as well as the

poor circulation to feed the hairs and the appropriate amount of protein that your liver

is supposed to make to allow this collagen to form in your skin.

A lot of times you also see pitting edema, so you press your finger into the lower leg and it leaves a dent.

I mean, I'm 58 years old right now when I was in my 30s I had a bit of

pinning edema and I looked back and I'm like wow I had no idea that my liver was

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