7 Early Signs of Liver Damage

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Summary

TLDRThe video outlines various hidden and early signs of liver damage that are often overlooked, including pain or fullness under the right rib cage, fatigue, itchy skin, red dots on the skin indicative of high estrogen, thyroid issues, low vitamin D levels, and changes in urine color and smell. It challenges the misconception that alcohol is the main cause of liver damage today, highlighting that poor dietary habits, involving excessive intake of sugar, starch, and seed oils, are significant contributors to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The speaker provides personal insights into the subtle yet significant signs of liver damage and underscores the role of lifestyle and diet in maintaining liver health. The video also points out the normalization of pharmaceutical treatments for conditions related to liver damage and stresses the importance of dietary change, notably the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet, in mitigating these issues.

Takeaways

  • 🩺 Liver damage can manifest as unusual symptoms like shoulder pain and fatigue.
  • πŸ’Š Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease surpasses alcohol-related liver damage today.
  • πŸ” Diets high in sugar, starch, and seed oils are primary contributors to liver issues.
  • πŸ” Early liver damage signs are often unnoticed or misattributed.
  • πŸ‹οΈ Loss of energy and endurance may indicate liver problems.
  • 🌸 Skin changes can signal liver issues, including itchy skin and spider veins.
  • 🧠 Cognitive and muscle function can decline with liver-induced low vitamin D levels.
  • 🫁 Liver health impacts thyroid wellness, affecting overall metabolism.
  • πŸ” Medications for related symptomatic conditions may overlook root liver causes.
  • πŸ₯‘ A ketogenic diet is suggested to help reverse liver damage symptoms.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker discusses the concept of 'slow liver death,' where liver cells become fatty, inflamed, and develop scar tissue, leading to their death. They emphasize that liver damage often goes unnoticed until it's too late, as early symptoms are typically absent. The speaker shares personal experience with liver damage in their 20s and states that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is more prevalent than alcoholic-induced liver issues. Early symptoms of liver damage include discomfort or pain under the right rib cage, which can extend to the right shoulder, back, or arm due to liver swelling and pressure on the gallbladder.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:11:33

    Further signs of liver damage include fatigue and weakness, itchiness caused by bile salts in tissues, and higher estrogen levels leading to symptoms such as spider veins and breast tissue growth. The speaker elaborates on the liver's role in converting vitamin D into its active form. A damaged liver may lead to low vitamin D levels, causing inflammation and muscle problems. The speaker also introduces the concept of darker urine with a peculiar smell as a sign of liver issues. They conclude by criticizing how misinformation surrounds liver disease causes, emphasizing that sugar, starch, and seed oil in diets are root causes. They caution against Big Pharma's influence and promote a keto diet as a solution.

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Video Q&A

  • What are the early signs of liver damage?

    Symptoms include a fullness or pain under the right rib cage, loss of energy, itchy skin, red spots on the skin, thyroid issues, low vitamin D, and darker urine.

  • Is alcohol the main cause of liver damage today?

    No, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is more prevalent today, caused by factors like high sugar intake and poor diet.

  • What are common misconceptions about liver damage causes?

    Many believe alcohol is the main cause, but high sugar, starch, and seed oil intake are significant contributors to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

  • How can thyroid function be related to liver issues?

    The thyroid relies on the liver for activation of hormones; liver problems can lead to thyroid dysfunction, causing fatigue and other symptoms.

  • Why might someone have low vitamin D despite sun exposure or supplements?

    Liver damage can impair vitamin D processing, leading to deficiencies despite adequate intake.

  • What's a common misconception about treating liver issues?

    Many focus on medications for symptoms rather than addressing root causes like diet and lifestyle changes.

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    today we're going to talk about the
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    liver and for a lot of people they have
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    this slow liver death the cells become
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    fatty inflamed and then they develop
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    scar tissue and so that kills these tiny
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    cells but what is the cause well I'm
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    going to show you and this is going to
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    not only shock you but it's going to
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    really piss you off so I'm going to
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    cover the seven early signs of liver
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    damage these are weird symptoms that you
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    might not connect to your liver but
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    they're so important to identify because
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    the problem with the liver is by the
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    time you find out you have liver damage
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    sometimes it's too late simply because
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    the first signs of a liver problem are
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    basically no signs you don't know what's
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    going on until sometimes up to 90% of
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    that liver is destroyed I have a lot of
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    experience with this because I had liver
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    damage early on in my 20s and so I want
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    to tell you what happened nowadays
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    alcohol is not at all the cause of liver
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    problems compared to what it was long
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    ago I would say if we took alcoholic
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    fatty liver disease and we compare that
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    with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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    alcohol induced fatty liver is roughly
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    about 4% okay that's 12th of this other
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    fatty liver problem but before I get
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    into the root cause I want to talk about
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    these early warning signs the number one
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    symptom is kind of a fullness or a
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    tightness or even it could be a pain
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    underneath your right rib cage that
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    sometimes can refer to the right
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    shoulder or even down the arm or on the
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    back part by the scapula I didn't know
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    what it was it was my liver and the
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    liver swells up and it puts pressure on
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    these little tubes that go to your
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    gallbladder and at one time I thought it
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    was my gallbladder but it really was my
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    liver since the liver controls the
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    gallbladder and the gallbladder is just
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    this little sack that stores and
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    concentrates fluid called bile which is
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    made by your liver and bile of course
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    helps you digest fats I didn't have a
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    clue what was going on but I will say
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    that that pain radiates up to the right
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    side through this little nerve it's
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    called the franic nerve up to the right
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    side of the shoulder so you're going to
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    feel it right here okay like a tightness
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    I don't care how many times someone Mass
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    es you it's just going to be tight and
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    sometimes it can refer in the back and
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    to the romboid around your scapula on
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    the right side but that's all liver
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    issues what eventually happened to me is
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    the vertebra of my neck these are not
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    bones in your neck but in my neck okay
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    all this tension on the right side was
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    pulling these vertebrae to the right
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    side and that pinched a nerve that went
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    down my arm and I had all sorts of
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    referred pain down my right arm I had no
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    idea it was connected to my liver I
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    thought it was a problem in my neck and
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    I had massages it never got better
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    there's nothing like treating the wrong
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    problem that just keeps that problem
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    there I did not connect the dots okay
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    all right number two is a loss of energy
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    now you might not feel like a noticeable
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    fatigue but you'll notice that you can't
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    go a long period of time like your
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    endurance is suffering especially if you
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    were to do exercise or exert yourself
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    you kind of run out of gas a lot sooner
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    in fact you might need to go to bed
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    earlier because you don't have the
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    endurance and that full energy that you
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    should have you might get tired after
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    you eat you don't have this solid good
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    endurance it kind of comes up and down
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    like that now this fatigue can also roll
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    over into weakness so you just lose that
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    Vitality that strength I mean I know
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    some people with liver problems that
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    getting out of a chair is difficult or
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    if they're sitting on the floor and
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    getting up it's like it's taking them
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    more than they should to get up number
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    three is it
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    somewhere could be in the bottom of your
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    feet for me it was the bottom of my foot
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    right by my Arch but it could be
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    anywhere in the body this is the bile
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    salts backing up into your tissues okay
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    and a lot of times you'll notice these
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    in your extremities either your hands or
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    your feet and for some reason people
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    notice this more at night than during
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    the day when they're moving around
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    probably because the circulation and it
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    kind of pushes the bio salt through the
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    body but if you're just in one position
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    for a period of time you might notice
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    like more itchiness in the bottom of the
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    feet backing up into the blood into the
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    tissues number four is these little red
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    dots or spider veins okay this really is
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    coming from higher levels of estrogen
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    for men they might have extra breast
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    tissue for women there's a whole series
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    of problems with estrogen dominance too
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    much estrogen is not good for the body
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    okay it can actually lead the cancer
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    with men as they get older and their
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    liver becomes more damaged if you notice
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    their skin becomes softer because they
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    have more estrogen which is interesting
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    estrogen kind of gives the soft layer
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    around a female body also when you have
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    more estrogen than you do androgens okay
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    you're going to lose your hair on your
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    skin this is probably why older men
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    start losing their hair on their lower
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    legs as well and then the skin gets very
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    very soft and shiny that's usually liver
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    problem and the accumulation of estrogen
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    all right the fifth symptom relates to
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    your th thyroid the thyroid is dependent
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    on the liver for the activation of the
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    thyroid hormone with a liver problem
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    you're going to notice the thyroid is
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    going to start to go downhill now that
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    can give you a lot of different symptoms
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    from fatigue loss of hair loss of energy
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    higher cholesterol the skin gets dried
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    out it could be a lot of things but it's
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    specifically a lowered functioning
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    thyroid all right number six low vitamin
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    D situation now you might already have a
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    deficiency of vitamin D because most
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    people do but with liver damage it
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    becomes a lot worse why because when you
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    actually consume a vitamin D from the
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    foods or you take vitamin D from a pill
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    or you get it from the Sun it actually
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    goes into the blood and eventually goes
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    through the kidney and it becomes an
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    active form of vitamin D3 what you need
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    to know is that you need your liver to
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    be able to work in this process of
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    storing and utilizing vitamin D if the
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    liver is not able to put that protein on
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    on that vitamin D you're going to be
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    vitamin D deficient the specific type of
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    vitamin D that's going to be low is
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    something called 25 hydroxy vitamin D
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    that is the type of vitamin D that they
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    check in your blood and so here's a
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    person taking all this of vitamin D
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    they're getting more sun but they can't
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    seem to get their levels very high why
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    because their liver is damaged all right
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    what are some of the symptoms that would
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    show up with that inflammation somewhere
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    in your body probably more in your lower
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    back area but you can have inflammation
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    anywhere in the body so your
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    inflammatory markers are going to be
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    much higher your immune system is going
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    to be weaker you're going to have a
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    problem with calcium so you may notice
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    that you have problems with muscle
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    spasms tighten muscles muscle knots all
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    of that vitamin D is so important in the
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    body it influences 10% of all of your
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    genes you're talking like 2500 different
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    genes it influences so the function of
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    vitamin D goes Way Beyond just
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    inflammation or calcium regulation or
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    muscle and number seven your urine's
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    going to be a little darker than it
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    should be you're also going to notice a
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    weird smell with your urine like what
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    the heck just happened when I urinated
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    that is a liver problem but now let's
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    dive into the actual root cause of a
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    liver problem because there's a lot of
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    confusions when you look at Wikipedia
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    it'll tell you well there's associated
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    with this or associated with that and
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    all you need to do is focus on losing
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    weight because obesity has a higher
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    incident or it's a risk factor blah blah
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    blah blah it's all very very confusing
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    I'm going to show you a real cause of
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    not just a fatty liver but an inflamed
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    liver and a liver that turns into
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    curosis and this goes beyond the alcohol
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    cause so check this out we're going to
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    talk about the root cause of not just a
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    fatty liver but liver disease in general
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    obesity is associated type 2 diabetes is
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    associated with it as well as something
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    called metabolic syndrome so basically
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    we're dealing with high blood sugar high
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    cholesterol high blood pressure obesity
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    all are responsible for non alcoholic
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    fatty liver disease now of course we
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    need to make these sound very scientific
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    so high blood sugar is going to be
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    hypoglycemia or type 2 diabetes high
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    cholesterol is hyper cholesterolemia
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    sounds a little more scientific then we
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    have high blood pressure which is
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    usually essential hypertension then
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    you're giving these medications men
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    Forin Lipitor for cholesterol linol for
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    high blood pressure you're also given a
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    diuretic called
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    hydrochlorizide which is going to thin
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    your blood and maybe some OIC now all
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    this treatment has been normalized for
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    people okay it's very scientific it's
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    normalized and when you get into
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    causation you know it's always this
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    Association you talk about risk factors
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    all of these right here and the reason
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    why you're treated in other words we
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    have sugar starch which is sugar and
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    seed oil these three ingredients are the
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    root cause and even more of a root cause
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    are these guys right here who fund the
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    dietitians and have a very cozy relation
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    relationship with the FDA now recently I
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    did an interview with an influencer on
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    Tik Tok and Instagram amazing basketball
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    player he's only 22 years old and I
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    wanted to interview him because I wanted
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    to see if I could change his diet and
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    increase his performance so come to find
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    out he eats at fast food place like
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    McDonald's eats pancakes with syrup for
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    breakfast so he eats a lot of junk food
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    and so I asked him I said do you have
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    any health problems he goes well I'm a
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    little bit tired oh yeah and I don't
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    sleep at night I go well we're going to
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    change that so I recommended what he
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    should do and then he says he has high
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    cholesterol his doctor wanted to put him
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    on statin drugs to lower his cholesterol
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    he's 22 years old what 22 years old yeah
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    the doctor made this slight Omission
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    what he was eating right why don't we
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    change the diet but I think a lot of
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    younger people because they're not
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    overweight think that they can get away
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    with eating junk food but it causes a
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    lot of other issues if a 22-year-old was
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    put on statin drugs first of all they're
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    going to have a lot of damage with their
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    muscle
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    okay not to mention energy and
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    eventually you know your cognitive
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    function and even testosterone too
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    because the raw material from
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    testosterone is cholesterol and what
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    they're doing is they're blocking it
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    with this drug right here what's really
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    happening we're omitting this huge cause
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    big food is responsible but it's been
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    normalized it's been hidden you are an
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    ATM for big food and big Pharma I am
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    considered a quack because I'm recom
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    recommending something like keto which
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    basically is getting people on Lower
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    amounts of sugar and starches and Seed
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    oils and you know they're going to put
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    doubt in people's mind where oh keto
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    might work initially for weight loss but
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    we don't know the long-term effects that
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    is such a disinformation campaign but
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    keto is the way to go the junk food
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    industry they do not like keto okay so
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    this is why you hear some bad things
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    about keto and then sometimes I'll get
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    that well Dr Burg's not a real doctor
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    right a doctor that prescribes you know
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    scientific medication that does the
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    proper diagnosis does this proper
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    treatment standard of care and puts
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    people on medication I don't want to do
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    this I never wanted to do this so they
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    can call me a quack whatever I'm going
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    to keep telling people to get off these
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    three ingredients right here and what's
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    going to happen is you're going to turn
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    around a lot of these symptoms right
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    here and eventually this thing right
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    here now that I told you what not to eat
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    the next question is what do I eat and
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    for that information you should watch
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    this video right here
Tags
  • liver health
  • non-alcoholic fatty liver
  • symptoms of liver damage
  • root causes
  • diet
  • sugar intake
  • thyroid
  • vitamin D deficiency