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I want to talk about how garlic can help your liver and the main phytonutriid in garlic

that I'm going to talk about is allocin.

Now just make sure that if you're using garlic that you crush it and you wait for about,

I don't know, 10 to 15 minutes to activate this allocin.

Or better yet, you can use aged garlic because in the fermentation process,

it can increase more of this phytonutriid.

But what does garlic do to your liver?

Well, many things that connect as a powerful and a accident to kind of soak up all the

free radicals and protect against oxidative stress and chemicals and heavy metals that you're

currently exposed to, it helps increase glutathione, which is the master antioxidant of your liver.

It also can increase bilirubin, which is the end product of red blood cells.

And so if your liver is damaged and you can't break down bilirubin, you can get jaundice.

It also is good in countering the toxic effect of taking acetaminophen.

And a lot of people take that if they have headaches or they have pain,

and the sound effect of that is liver damage.

So garlic protects the toxic effect of certain medications.

Garlic has an anti-inflammatory effect, reducing the risk of getting a fatty liver,

as well as reducing the risk of getting fibrosis, or reducing scar tissue of your liver.

It's anti-microbial, it's anti-fungal.

It reduces oxidative stress, which is involved in those free radicals that I've talked about.

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