This Detox Organ Is Blocking Every Diet You Try (Here's The Fix) : 1336
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Most people are struggling with fat loss, low energy, and hormone chaos—and they don’t even realize the real problem isn’t their diet or workout plan... it’s their liver. In this episode, I break down how your liver controls fat-burning, energy, and hormone regulation—and why things like poor bile flow and mineral deficiencies are sabotaging your results. I’ll show you how to fix your metabolism by targeting the real root cause. This is biohacking 101—backed by science, and built to work.
Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
1:06 – The Liver: Your Metabolic Engine
2:23 – Why Your Detox System is Overwhelmed
3:58 – The 3 Gs That Help Detox Properly
4:15 – The Role of Bile (and Your Gallbladder)
5:48 – Signs of Sluggish Bile Flow
6:43 – How to Get Bile Moving Again
7:18 – Estrogen, Cortisol, and Fat Storage
8:37 – The Real Fix for Hormone Imbalance
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| 0:00.0 | You're doing everything the fitness gurus tell you. |
| 0:02.7 | You know, the young guys who've never been overweight, never been sick, |
| 0:06.8 | never had to come back from being obese and having brain fog. |
| 0:11.0 | You're counting your calories, you're hitting the gym, you're eating clean, |
| 0:14.9 | but your body keeps fighting you. |
| 0:17.4 | The scale won't budge even though you're hungry all the time. |
| 0:20.2 | You're exhausted after meals, |
| 0:21.9 | you're exhausted after a workout, and that stubborn belly fat seems permanently glued to your body. |
| 0:27.3 | Happened to me. I weighed 300 pounds. I went to the gym on a low calorie diet six days a |
| 0:32.3 | week for 18 months straight. And when I was done, I still weighed 300 pounds and I still had a 46 inch waist. |
| 0:38.3 | So you're no alone. |
| 0:39.3 | If you do this stuff that the people who've never had to get to the root of a problem tell you to do and it doesn't work. |
| 0:45.3 | This is a reason that way more than half of people are obese in the U.S. right now. |
| 0:51.3 | But here's what those influencers aren't telling you. The problem is not you. |
| 0:56.2 | It's not your willpower. And it's not the wrong workout routine or working out not enough. |
| 1:03.6 | It's that there's a three pound organ under your rib cage on the right side that's been |
| 1:08.2 | sabotaging your metabolism for years. And until you fix it, nothing else will work. |
| 1:13.9 | That organ is your liver. |
| 1:15.8 | Think of your liver like the engine in your car. |
| 1:18.8 | If your engine is clogged, it doesn't matter how good your gas is, your car won't run right. |
| 1:23.8 | Your liver is like your body's engine, and people's engines are completely jammed up. |
| 1:29.6 | Your liver does more than 500 different jobs every single day. |
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