The Screening Gap Letting Liver Cancer Flourish - AI Podcast

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Health, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Most people with liver damage have no symptoms and receive a diagnosis only after irreversible scarring has occurred, making early detection and lifestyle changes essential
Standard blood tests often miss early-stage liver fibrosis, even when enzyme levels are "normal," delaying diagnosis until complications like cirrhosis or liver cancer appear
The real threat isn’t liver fat, but fibrosis — scar tissue that silently builds up from insulin resistance, inflammation, toxic fats like vegetable oils and alcohol
Choline is a key nutrient that helps your liver move fat out before it causes damage; pastured egg yolks are the best source, but many people don’t get enough from food alone
Removing vegetable oils and alcohol, eating choline-rich foods, trimming belly fat, and moving daily help reduce liver stress and reverse fibrosis before it's too late

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0:00.0	Did you know you could be walking around with advanced liver scarring and feel perfectly fine?
0:05.0	Studies now show that millions of adults over 50 already have dangerous fibrosis,
0:10.0	even though routine blood tests still stamp their results as normal.
0:15.0	Welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom.
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0:28.9	Hello, and welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, and today we're
0:35.2	exposing the silent epidemic that could be threatening your liver right now. I'm Al Foster and today we're exposing the silent epidemic that could be threatening
0:37.9	your liver right now.
0:39.7	I'm Alara Sky, and the reason you rarely hear about liver fibrosis is that it develops
0:45.2	quietly.
0:46.8	Your liver can lose a remarkable share of its capacity before you feel any discomfort at all.
0:52.7	Standard enzyme checks such as ALT or AST usually
0:57.0	look acceptable until late stages because the cutoff values most labs use were set decades ago
1:03.0	and never modernized. That means you might leave the clinic believing everything is fine,
1:08.0	while scar tissue is steadily advancing.
1:10.0	The conversation has long centered on
1:12.6	fat in the liver, but research makes it clear that fibrosis decides who moves towards cirrhosis or cancer.
1:19.2	Fat can melt away once you change habits. Scar tissue stays and keeps growing when insulin resistance,
1:25.2	toxic vegetable oils, or alcohol, injure liver cells faster
1:29.3	than they can repair. The real threat is the stiffness that gradually chokes blood flow
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