Why Fatty Liver Is So Common And How To Heal It

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

“Fatty liver” literally means your liver fills with fat, which paves the way for chronic disease and inflammation. Fatty liver is a dangerous yet misunderstood disease. It is also very common, affecting 90 million Americans alone. You need a healthy liver to combat toxic junk and chemicals in your environment. A healthy liver means your body stays healthy, you don’t get sick, and you maintain plenty of energy. A fatty liver, on the other hand, has numerous repercussions including inflammation, which triggers insulin resistance and prediabetes, meaning your body deposits fat in your liver and organs, including your belly (called visceral fat). Fatty liver can also lead to more serious problems including high triglycerides, low HDL (“good” cholesterol), and high amounts of small LDL (dangerous cholesterol particles that can cause heart attacks). Fatty liver also increases your heart attack risk.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking about how to identify if you have fatty liver, what’s causing it, and how to fix it.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

What is fatty liver disease? (4:16 / 00:40)
Causes of fatty liver disease (5:23 / 2:25)
How to know if you have fatty liver disease (5:51 / 2:54)
The dangers of fatty liver disease (6:57 / 4:06)
Fructose and fatty liver (8:57 / 5:55)
Foods to avoid and to eat to fix a fatty liver (10:31 / 7:42)
Supplements to support the liver (12:41 / 9:44)
Detoxifying, liver-repairing superfoods (13:54 /10:26)

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.5	So if you want to get rid of fatty liver or avoid it, do not eat anything with high fructose corn syrup.
0:08.4	In fact, there's one thing you can do to radically change your life is avoid every single food product with high fructose corn syrup.
0:14.0	Just get rid of it.
0:17.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark.
0:19.0	As a busy doctor with multiple jobs, I'm all about tools that make my life simpler.
0:23.5	And since testing is something I rely on to help almost all my patients,
0:26.5	I was really excited to learn about Rupa Health, hormones, organic acids, nutrient levels, inflammatory factors, and gut bacteria are just some of the many things I look at to find the most effective path to optimize health for my patients.
0:40.0	But that means I'm placing orders through multiple labs, which is just an overall pain.
0:44.0	And it also makes keeping track of results more difficult for me and my patients and other doctors.
0:49.0	Rupa Health has totally changed that.
0:52.0	They've made functional medicine testing simpler and more convenient than ever so that practitioners like me can focus on helping their patients.
1:00.0	With Rupa Health functional medicine practitioners can access more than 2000, especially lab tests from over 20 labs like Dutch, vibrant America, Genova, great planes and more.
1:09.0	It's 90% faster, letting you simplify the process of getting the functional tests you need and providing a noticeably better patient experience.
1:16.5	This is really a very much needed option in the functional medicine space that I'm so excited about.
1:21.5	You can check out our free live demo and a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com that's R-U-P-A-Health.com.
1:28.5	People are always surprised when I tell them that even with a Whole Foods diet rich in plants, we can still be nutrient deficient.
1:35.5	And addressing nutrient deficiencies is one of the lowest hanging fruits for optimizing our health and feeling better at any age.
1:42.0	And that is why I'm a huge fan of AG1 from Athletic Greens.
1:45.5	Since our soils are so damaged, the plants can't extract the nutrients because there's no living matter anymore.
1:52.5	And we're up against issues like chronic stress and toxicity and sleep deprivation like never before,
1:58.5	and our bodies need some extra help getting all the right information to work properly.
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