This Is One of the WORST Things You Can Eat

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about one of the worst foods you could eat, especially for liver health. There are generally very few symptoms of liver problems. When I had liver problems, I experienced right shoulder blade pain and pain beneath my right rib cage.

It’s a myth that liver damage is permanent. The liver is one of the only organs that can regenerate itself 100%. Another myth is that the liver is filled with toxins. The liver detoxifies poisons, it doesn't store them.

The worst “food” or ingredient for your liver is seed oils. Seed oils are damaging, inflammatory, and high in omega-6 fats, specifically linoleic acid. Lard contains about 2.5% linoleic acid, and tallow only contains 0.7%. Corn oil contains 56.6% linoleic acid!

Seed oils contain oxidized linoleic acid that can cause significant oxidative damage in the body, especially in the liver and the nervous system.

The average diet is 25 to 30% seed oils, which is too much. Seed oils become lodged in our fat cells and the membranes surrounding the nervous system and can remain there for 2 to 3 years.

Seed oils can’t be used for energy. They inflame the liver and contribute to insulin resistance. You should avoid seed oils, including canola oil, soy oil, and cottonseed oil, which are commonly labeled as vegetable oil.

Always check food labels and avoid seed oils and foods that contain them. Replace seed oils with oils high in omega-3 fatty acids rather than omega-6. Reduce your consumption of grain-fed animal products and look for grass-fed meats.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2646971/

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0:00.0	I like to share with you the number one absolute worst food that you could consume for your liver,
0:09.6	especially if you're concerned about developing a fatty liver and hint it's not sugar, it's not carbs,
0:19.3	and this particular ingredient is not even high fructose corn syrup even though sugar, starch, and high
0:25.2	fruitose corn syrup is really bad for the liver there's something much worse.
0:30.1	Now the big problem with the liver is that there's very few symptoms that occur with the liver.
0:35.6	I had a liver problem for probably, I don't know, 22 years, I didn't know it was a liver problem.
0:42.8	Now I did have some symptoms, but I didn't know it was a liver problem. Now I did have some symptoms, but I didn't connect the dots.
0:46.3	A lot of my symptoms were my right shoulder, right through in this trap right here,
0:51.4	and right back into on the back of the scapula and then also right underneath
0:56.4	my right ribcage like right here it was just always just completely, you know, painful, sore, tight and bloated for years.
1:08.6	I didn't know what that was.
1:10.5	Of course, this problem down here was my bile duct, like the little tubes that connect to the gallbladder, but that's part of the liver because the liver makes bile.
1:19.0	So I had this problem for a very long time and that's why I'm I do a lot of videos in
1:23.6	the liver because I completely reversed it and that's one big myth that I want to
1:29.2	talk about because people think that once you have a liver problem you always have a liver problem
1:33.4	absolutely not the liver is so robust and so rugged it's the one of the only
1:39.4	organs that can completely 100% regenerate.
1:43.6	So that's one myth.
1:45.1	Another myth is that the liver is filled with toxins.
1:48.9	It's very toxic.
1:50.0	That's not true.
1:51.6	The liver detoxifies poisons. It doesn't store poisons. The fat cells store poisons. The
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