Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Today we're going to talk about the best foods to clean out your liver.

Your liver is not necessarily dirty.

It doesn't accumulate toxins.

In fact, its main function is to detoxify toxins and poisons and chemicals, but it's not a storage

facility for poisons and chemicals unless you have a fatty liver because these toxins are

stored in your fat cells.

Now, when your liver gets inflamed, it heals with scar tissue and you can can develop cirrhosis, and you can lose function and

create all sorts of issues. But the liver itself is not a reservoir for toxins. So I want to shift my

talk into the best foods to we establish the full function of your liver, to get your liver

able to detoxify at the highest level.

And you can totally do this with foods. So we're going to cover all those. But I want to first

talk about the different functions of the liver. Okay. It has the ability to detoxify. It makes bile.

Bile is a detergent to help you break down fats and extract certain nutrients

from fat. Your liver is a main producer of hormones. That's right. One being IGF1, insulin like

growth factor number one. Now, what is that? That is a very similar hormone to growth hormone. Growth hormone is

made by your pituitary gland. It's sent to the liver. It works through the liver. And you can kind of

consider IGF number one as an extension of growth hormone. It performs very similar functions.

So it has everything to do with helping you burn fat.

It's anabolic hormone, so it helps you build muscle.

It has everything to do with building proteins.

And it also can help tap into your fat reserves and your stored sugar reserves for fuel.

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