The Top Foods That Help and Harm The Liver with Kristin Kirkpatrick

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Maui Nui, Levels, and Ollie. When we think about chronic disease and vital organs, the liver isn’t always the first that comes to mind—but it should be. The liver plays a role in nearly every metabolic process in the body, from stabilizing blood sugar levels to converting amino acids into usable fuel. Today’s guest joins the podcast for a deep dive into how optimizing liver health is key to supporting overall health. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Kristin Kirkpatrick to explore the liver’s vital role in detoxification, the rise of fatty liver disease, and how liver health impacts overall mortality. They break down the connection between diet and liver function, debunk myths about dietary fat, and examine the effects of ultra-processed foods and artificial sweeteners. Kristin shares the benefits of coffee, muscle mass, and blood sugar balance for metabolic health, along with key liver-supportive foods, lifestyle tips, and insights into GLP-1 medications for those with obesity and liver issues. In this episode, Dhru and Kristin dive into: The shocking rates of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (00:00) Understanding fatty liver disease and its twelve major risk factors (2:51) Why Americans are at greater risk (7:50) The crucial role the liver plays in the body (13:28) The phases of detoxification from environmental toxins (18:18) Research linking fatty liver disease to increased mortality risk (22:28) The earlier onset of fatty liver disease in today’s population (27:15) Why carbohydrates may be more to blame than fat (27:54) The impact of Diet Cola, artificial sweeteners, and foods to avoid (32:01) Twelve liver-friendly foods to prioritize (48:31) The importance of building and maintaining muscle mass (58:01) Lifestyle recommendations for managing fatty liver disease (1:05:31) The role of physical activity in liver health (1:08:31) Understanding GLP-1 medications and their effects (1:11:53) Final thoughts on liver health and nutrition (1:18:31) Also mentioned in this episode: Kristin’s Presentation Slides Regenerative Health Book For more on Kristin, follow her on Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, LinkedIn, and her Website. This episode is brought to you by Maui Nui, Levels, and Ollie. Right now, Maui Nui Venison is offering my listeners a limited collection of my favorite cuts and products. Just go to mauinuivenison.com/dhru to secure your access now —but hurry, supply is limited! Right now, Levels is offering my listeners an additional 2 FREE months of the Levels annual Membership when you use my link: levels.link/DHRU. Make moves on your metabolic health with Levels today. Want to give your dog the best in clean eating? Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Right now, Ollie is offering 60% off your first box of meals when you subscribe today! Just head to Ollie.com, use the code DHRU, and you’ll get 60% off your first box of meals in your subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kristen, you're back on the podcast today to talk about protecting one of the most vital organs in our body, our liver.
0:08.7	You've even put together a fantastic list of 12 of the top foods that support liver health, which I'm excited to share with our audience today.
0:19.5	But before we get into that, you have a pretty
0:21.9	mind-blowing stat and fact about our liver. And that fact is that one in four adults in the U.S.
0:30.7	is now living with fatty liver, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. And this is the clincher.
0:40.6	Most people have no idea.
0:46.9	That's almost a hundred million Americans walking around with this as a silent condition that left unaddressed can completely upend our life. What is fatty liver disease? And let's jump
0:54.1	right into it. Who's at risk for this
0:57.1	condition? Yeah. So, Drew, you know, it's really interesting. This data is actually a little bit older.
1:02.4	We don't have the updated data yet. Some assumptions now are that it could be as severe as even
1:08.0	one in three could be greater than what we think. Definitely one in four. Faddy liver
1:13.0	disease is simply having excess fat in the liver. So the liver is supposed to have some fat. Once you get
1:19.8	over about 10% of fat and fat starts to overtake healthy liver cells, now you have something
1:25.5	called fatty liver disease. And that's basically the gist of
1:28.4	what it is. But it is what comes because of it that really is the alarming factors, right? And this
1:35.6	phrase that I used, once fat overtakes healthy liver tissue. So once we have kind of that hijacking of
1:42.7	overtaking of having healthy liver tissue being replaced by unhealthy, fibrotic, inflamed tissue, the liver no longer works the way it should.
1:53.5	And that causes a whole host of problems.
1:55.8	Talk to us about who's at risk, because we talked about this being largely for many people a silent epidemic.
2:03.4	They don't know actually they're on their way to getting this very terrible condition,
2:08.8	which has a whole host of problems in their life. So you have a great slide on this. If you could
2:13.3	walk us through. You know, the silent nature of this is really what I've seen in my practice
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