The True Cause of Fatty Liver Disease and the Top Dietary and Lifestyle Habits to Address It with Kristin Kirkpatrick & Dr. Ibrahim Hanouneh

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers and Sweetgreen. When discussing chronic disease and crucial organs, we don’t always think about the role the liver plays in our body. Yet, the liver has a role in every metabolic process in the body, including ensuring our blood sugar levels are stable or ensuring that amino acids are converted into fuel. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Kristin Kirkpatrick & Dr. Ibrahim Hanouneh to shed light on an epidemic affecting one in four people: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Dr. Hanouneh and Kristin share the biggest risk factors that lead to fatty liver disease including, metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, and insulin resistance. Dr. Hanouneh and Kristin discuss the rising prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, emphasizing major risk factors such as metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, and insulin resistance. They also explore how factors like the consumption of ultra-processed foods, sugar, and a sedentary lifestyle contribute to the increase in fatty liver cases. Despite these challenges, there is hope. Dr. Hanouneh and Kristin share that fatty liver is a lifestyle disease, and changes to eating and lifestyle habits can effectively treat most cases of this condition. Dr. Ibrahim Hanouneh, MD, is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist specializing in liver disease. Kristin Kirkpatrick, MS, RDN, is a celebrated author, speaker, and accomplished dietitian with over 25 years in the field. Teaming up with Dr. Ibrahim Hanouneh, Kristin co-authored the bestselling book Skinny Liver in 2017, and their upcoming release is called Regenerative Health. In this episode, Dhru, Kristin, and Dr. Hanouneh dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The top warning signs that you have fatty liver disease (2:36 / 2:36 ) What leads to fatty liver and the major components of fatty liver disease (4:21 / 4:21) The relationship between fatty liver disease and chronic inflammation (20:08 / 18:45) What has caused the increase in rates of fatty liver disease (25:14 / 23:45) How to treat and reverse fatty liver disease (44:28 / 41:31) Four metabolic types and the importance of identifying your type for risk of fatty liver (51:44 / 48:30 ) The key tests to measure your risk of fatty liver disease (1:12:17 / 1:08:40) Factors beyond your control that can contribute to fatty liver disease (1:16:27 / 1:12:30) Alcohol and its role in fatty liver disease (1:25:40 / 1:22:40) Gut health and fiber consumption and the impact on the liver (1:31:25 / 1:28:10) 12 Liver-friendly foods to incorporate into your diet (1:36:57 / 1:33:43) Supplements that can support liver health (1:48:50 / 1:45:30) Also mentioned in this episode: Regenerative Health Book Start the New Year off right and dial in on your sleep. Go to bioptimizers.com/dhru now and enter promo code DHRU10 to get 10% off any order. Find out more about Sweetgreen and their newest protein plates at www.sweetgreen.com. New Users of the sweet green app can use the code "Dhru5" for $5 off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	insulin resistance, anything where we are overloaded as we typically are in the American diet
0:06.2	with sugar with refined carbohydrates, this is what is really leading to the storage of fat within the
0:12.1	liver that then replaces healthy liver tissue.
0:28.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prote here and today we're chatting with Kristen Kirkpatrick and Dr. Ibrahim Hanonay and they're here to talk about a silent epidemic that is impacting many, many people and that silent epidemic is fatty liver disease, which by the way, most people who have it actually don't know they have it.
0:41.0	That's why this episode is so important. We're going to be talking
0:44.4	about what fatty liver disease is, what causes it, and most importantly what to do
0:49.6	to potentially reverse it through diet and lifestyle. Now a little bit more about today's
0:55.2	guest. Dr. Ibrahim Hanone is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist
1:00.3	specializing in liver disease. He completed his internal medicine residency. and He has served as the chief Gaster Enterology Fellow and Associate Staff at the Cleveland Clinic and later contributed his expertise to Minnesota Gaster Enterology and Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
1:22.0	Kristen Kirkpatrick is a celebrated author, speaker,
1:25.2	an accomplished dietician with over 25 years in the field,
1:28.8	currently serving as a dietician
1:30.8	at the esteemed Cleveland Clinic's Department of Wellness and Preventative Medicine.
1:34.8	Kristen is also a senior fellow at Meadows Behavioral Health Care in Arizona.
1:39.7	Together, Kristen and Dr. Hanonay co-authored the best-selling book Skinny Lover in 2017.
1:46.4	Their upcoming book is titled Regenerative Health.
1:49.6	It's all about fatty liver and it's the focus of today's conversation.
1:53.7	Kristen, Ibrahim,
2:03.4	welcome to the podcast, a pleasure to have you here.
2:05.8	I want to jump right in.
2:06.8	Something mind-blowing that I've learned from your work over the years
2:11.4	is that most people that have fatty liver disease don't
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