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Today we're going to talk about the most common cause of a liver transplant. And this thing I'm going to talk about is the number one cause of a liver transplant in the

U.S. and the second most common cause of a liver transplant in the world.

And that would be acedaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol. Now, if you're in Europe,

it may be called paracetamol. Now, here's the problem. The active ingredient in Tylen, which is acetaminophon,

is in quite a few over-the-counter medications. It's in Alka-Seltzer Plus, Benadryl, Excedrin, it's in Pachoset,

ributusin, suet, theriflu, vix, Nyquil, dequel, and in Vicodin. And many of these

medications come in one-gram tablets. But here's the problem. Only four grams a day is an overdose. You should

never take more than three grams in a 24-hour period because the toxicity from this chemical

literally destroys the liver cells and this destruction is irreversible. Now to make things worse,

if you have a fatty liver, if you

have cirrhosis, if you have hepatitis, if you're an alcoholic, if you're a heavy smoker,

and if you are on antidepressant medication or antibiotics, or you drink a lot of aspartame because

you drink a lot of diet sodas, all of this weakens the liver

to the point where 3 grams in a 24-hour period is highly toxic, if not deadly. So here's what

happens. The liver makes two enzymes that are supposed to dismantle this chemical and turn it into a harmless byproduct.

But what happens when you overload these two enzymes too much with this chemical, it gets saturated.

And then a third enzyme comes in to try to cope with this, and then you start depleting

your glutathione, which is a very important

protective antioxidant for the liver then you start getting necrosis of the hepatocyte or the

liver cells now the term necrosis is the death of body tissue so your liver cells hepatocytes

basically die now i want to give you a little reality on how easy it is

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