Hey guys, in this video we're going to talk about a fatty liver and your thyroid, okay?

If you have a fatty liver, chances are that's going to slow your thyroid down because

let's take it from the top. High levels of insulin from a lot of refined carbohydrates and frequent

eating will put fat in the liver. You're going to get inflammation and you're going to get

scar tissue which will eventually develop into something called cirrhosis. In fact, this is

called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, okay? This can also come from being an alcoholic.

So the damage from high insulin from a lot of the sugar is almost identical from the damage from

alcohol, especially if you're consuming it from high fructose corn syrup, okay? Because the fructose

really will damage the liver faster than other sugars. And the average American consumes

44.7 gallons of liquid sugar every single year, okay? So how do you know if you have a fatty liver?

Well, if you have a gut, you're going to have a fatty liver, okay? Because the fat is

spilling over from the liver around the abdomen is called the visceral fat. However, the best way

to identify a fatty liver is ultrasound, but what's going to happen if you have a fatty liver, the

function of that liver is going to go down and the cholesterol is going to start building up too,

because you're going to get a decrease of production of bile. So when you have liver damage and

not in a bile, you can't effectively remove cholesterol too well, okay? So that's one problem.

And then we have the thyroid over here. The thyroid produces a hormone called T4, and then the liver

helps you convert T4 to T3, which is the active form of a thyroid hormone. This is inactive,

this is active. If the liver is damaged, you're not going to convert enough into T3, and you're

going to have a condition known as hypothyroidism. So now you have a slow thyroid, which will then

build up more cholesterol, slow your metabolism, cause more weight gain. So really high insulin

will affect your thyroid because of the liver, all right? So what do you do? Well,

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