The Best Foods, Smoothies, and Supplements for a Liver Cleanse Detox

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Let’s talk about how to detox the liver naturally and healthily. The liver doesn’t hold or store toxins—it gets rid of toxins. When we’re talking about a liver cleanse, we’re talking about getting rid of fat, inflammation, and scar tissue in the liver. These things weaken the ability of the liver to detox. The liver is the only organ that can completely regenerate, but there is a point of limitation. Keep in mind that you can get rid of 50 percent of the fat in the liver just by going on a low-carb diet. You don’t need to get on a low-fat diet, but a low-carb diet is crucial. Alcohol consumption can lead to fatty liver disease. But, one of the top causes of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is fructose. The best foods for liver detoxification: • Cruciferous vegetables • Beets • Blueberries • Organ meats • Grass-fed beef • Eggs • Fatty fish (salmon and sardines) • Seafood • Sauerkraut • Kimchi • Kefir • Pickles The best shakes and smoothies for liver detoxification: 1. One cup of blueberries blended with a couple of handfuls of frozen kale and some water 2. One to two cups of whole milk kefir blended with one cup of blueberries and water (optional) The best drink for liver detoxification: 1. Two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with the juice of one lemon (or one blended whole lemon) and 12 ounces of water The best supplements for liver detoxification: • Milk thistle • Choline • Turmeric • Purified bile salts • Probiotics • Tocotrienols Check out my other videos on supporting a healthy liver and my Liver Cleanse supplement, designed with your liver in mind.

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0:00.0	Liver cleansing detox. That's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about the foods,
0:03.7	best for that, smoothies, shakes, and supplements. One thing that I think is a kind of a misunderstanding
0:10.7	about the liver itself, the liver does not hold or store toxins, okay? It gets rid of toxins.
0:19.8	It's the main organ that turns these fat-ciable poisons into a water-ciable substance that is no longer
0:28.4	poisonous, and then it gets rid of it through the bile ducts with the help of the bile.
0:34.0	And when we talk about cleansing, we're really talking about cleansing the liver of fat and also
0:40.6	inflammation or scar tissue. And the more fatty the liver, the more scar tissue and the more
0:45.2	inflammation, the less it has the capacity to detox. And there's this whole cascade of amazing
0:51.6	enzymes in the liver that help take this very severe dangerous poison all the way through to the
0:59.2	point where it's no longer poisonous. You can even get rid of 50% of the liver's fat
1:07.5	through going on a low carb diet. This is called a ketogenic diet. So I'm going to get into very
1:12.0	specific foods, but you just need to know, if you go on low carb with intermittent fasting,
1:16.8	you can drop a lot of fat off the liver really fast. And the less fat the liver has,
1:21.3	the more it can do its job. The liver is about three and a half pounds, the size of a football,
1:26.1	and it's really robust. It takes up beating, and it can do its job just with 20% of the liver cells
1:33.1	left. And it is the only organ that can completely regenerate itself, but there's a point of
1:37.9	limitation. You can get to the point where it's so filled with scar tissue that's called cirrhosis
1:42.9	that you're going to have to get on the list for a liver transplant. And a lot of times people
1:49.1	don't have any symptoms in the initial phases of liver problems other than some fatigue. But one
1:57.5	real simple way to know if you have a fatty liver is just to look down and see if you could see
2:02.0	your stomach protruding out because abdominal fat is a good indication that you have liver fat.
2:08.9	Now, as far as what causes a liver to become fatty, you might say, well, alcohol, right? Well,
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