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liver cleansing detox that’s what we’re

going to talk about we’re going to talk

about the foods best for that smoothies

shakes and supplements one thing that I

think is a kind of a misunderstanding

about the liver itself the liver does

not hold or store toxins okay it gets

rid of toxins it’s the main organ that

turns these fat soluble poisons into a

water-soluble substance that is no

longer poisonous and then it gets rid of

it through the bile ducts with the help

of the bile and when we talk about

cleansing we’re really talking about

cleansing the liver of fat and also

inflammation or scar tissue and the more

fatty the liver the more scar tissue and

the more inflammation the less it has

the capacity to detox and there’s this

whole Cascade of amazing enzymes in the

liver that help take this very severe

dangerous poison

all the way through to the point where

it’s no longer poisonous you can even

get rid of 50 percent of the liver’s fat

through going on a low carb diet this is

called a ketogenic diet so I want to get

into very specific foods but you just

need to know if you go on low carb with

intermittent fasting you can drop a lot

of fat off the liver really fast and the

less fat the liver has the more it can

do its job the liver is about three and

a half pounds the size of a football and

it’s really robust it takes a baiting

and it can do its job just with 20

percent of the liver cells left and it

is the only organ that can completely

regenerate itself but there is a point

of limitation you can get to the point

where it’s so filled with scar tissue

that’s called cirrhosis that you know

you’re going to have to get on the list

for a liver transplant and a lot of

times people don’t have any symptoms in

the initial phases of liver problems

other than some fatigue but one real

simple way to know if you have a fatty

liver is just to look down and see if

you can see your stomach protruding out

because of abdominal fat is a good

indication that you have liver fat now

as far as what causes the liver to

become fatty

you might say well alcohol right well

that’s definitely something that can

cause it but there’s also something even

more common called

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and

that condition mainly comes from

fructose okay now where would you get

fructose fructose is in a lot of the

sugars that people consume like table

sugar has fructose beet sugar honey

fruit all are about half fructose and

half glucose so if you’re eating a lot

of sugar and drinking your sugar as in

high fructose corn syrup like all the

sodas and juice and fast foods chances

are you have a fatty liver not to

mention regular wine and frequent snacks

will all contribute to a fatty liver so

what are the best foods

to help heal the liver to help

strengthen its ability to detoxify

right at the top of the list you have

something called cruciferous vegetables

that would be like kale arugula broccoli

cauliflower collard greens mustard

greens brussels sprouts bok choy

horseradish cabbage these are very

unique vegetables that

don’t necessarily give you more enzymes

but they Trigger or induce more of your

own body’s phase one phase two enzymes

to help you break down chemicals and

there’s also very specific natural

chemicals they’re called vital chemicals

or phytonutrients in cruciferous that

are even more potent than other things

okay like sulforaphane in broccoli

Sprouts or micro greens microgreens are

basically just about a 10 day old baby

vegetable versus Sprouts might be like

between three to seven days but radish

microgreens or Sprouts or broccoli

microgreens or Sprouts are loaded with

sulforaphane so what I like to do

instead of just using regular lettuce

for my salad I like to use the arugula

Leaf because that’s going to more

potently do a lot more good than regular

lettuce another vegetable that’s really

good for the liver is beets beets help

increase bile production which can help

get rid of toxins from the liver that

they just been broken down beets can

help increase the flow of biles so then

that bile can actually help eliminate

all the toxins that your liver just

broke down beets also trigger this phase

one phase two detoxification so what you

can do is you can shave some raw beet on

your salad or just steam beets and

consume beets and just as a side note

fruit is not really good for the liver

because you’re going to get a lot of

fructose

but berries especially the blueberry can

help you reduce fibrosis in the liver

and it’s anti-inflammatory even though

it is classified as a fruit but it has a

lot lower sugar than other fruits you

might think that to get rid of fat on

the liver you have to go in a low-fat

diet

no you don’t you have to go in a low

carb diet

get rid of the sugars

because that Sugar then converts into

fat

the fattiest foods like eggs and organ

Meats like beef liver and grass-fed beef

and fatty fish all are loaded with this

other nutrient called choline that very

potently gets rid of fat off your liver

actually choline is even part of your

own bile so it’s kind of a detergent for

fats and take a while guess what has the

most choline

egg yolks beef liver and fatty fish but

you can also get some choline in things

like broccoli so it’s not just about

going on a low-fat diet there’s also

other fats that help get rid of fat off

your liver and that would be the omega-3

fats which I just touched on fatty fish

but salmon Seafood grass-fed beef

sardines are all high omega-3 fatty

acids that can greatly help the liver as

well as decrease inflammation in your

liver on the flip side omega-6 fatty

acids all the seed oils like the corn

oil the soy oil safflower oil all of

these things that are high in omega-6

actually create more problems for the

liver so I don’t recommend consuming

those and unfortunately we have way too

much of those I think nowadays an

average person consumes 30 times more

omega-6 oils than they should and it’s

hidden in restaurant Foods it’s in fried

foods they use it in salad dressings

mayonnaise and many many other Foods now

as far as the Protein that’s needed for

the liver to function you need high

quality protein that would be eggs

grass-fed beef and fatty fish

you don’t want to go on a no protein

diet because these amino acids are very

very necessary to help heal the liver

but then again you also don’t want to

use low quality protein especially the

plant-based protein powders the soy

protein powders whey protein is also

hard on the liver it’s a refined product

there’s no fat the liver actually does

better if you consume foods that have

the natural fat with the protein

Probiotic foods are very healthy for the

liver that would be sauerkraut kimchi

and kefir and pickles those are some

main foods that are really good to help

strengthen the detox and also get rid of

fat off your liver and also decrease

inflammation let’s switch gears to

smoothies and shakes there’s two really

good ones and they both use blueberries

okay so you get some blueberries like a

cup and one of the shakes you’re using

frozen kale so what I like to do is take

a bag of kale from the grocery store and

then just put it in the freezer freeze

it solid and then when you’re ready take

a like a couple handfuls of kale put it

in the blender okay take a cup of

blueberries put that in the blender fill

it up with water just above the material

blend it for like 30 to 45 seconds and

you have yourself a delicious really

healthy liver cleansing Shake another

one I like to use is with kefir don’t

get the one that has low fat whole milk

and it could be either sheep milk or

goat milk but don’t try to get the low

fat one of course try to get the grass

fed and organic if you can but that

Kefir is better than regular yogurt

because it not only has the bacteria it

has a friendly yeast and a lot more

microbes what I like to do is take a cup

or two of kefir and a cup of blueberries

and you may have to to add a little

water to it maybe half of a cup

sometimes you don’t I would first try it

without the water because sometimes the

Kefir is more liquid it really depends

on how liquid the Kefir is and then you

blend it for 30 seconds and drink that

down it’s delicious and so you have this

probiotic blueberry liver protecting

shake and then with the kale you’re

actually drinking your cruciferous

vegetable and it’s raw it’s frozen it

goes right in and it really helps you’ll

ever now as far as a drink goes the best

drink for the liver would be a

combination of apple cider vinegar and

lemon

the apple cider vinegar can help strip

fat off the liver it also can help

support blood sugars and make insulin

more sensitive helping you correct

insulin resistance which is at the heart

of a fatty liver and also lemon is very

very sour and it too has choline in

other things that can help support the

liver it has a lot of vitamin C it can

help reduce inflammation take two

tablespoons of apple cider vinegar put

it in a glass you can take one lemon

squeeze the lemon from that one lemon

into the glass and you have about 12

ounces of water and then drink it with a

straw sometimes I’ll take the whole

lemon put that in the blender with about

12 ounces of water two tablespoons of

apple cider vinegar blend it down so I

have some additional cool properties of

that lemon peel that you wouldn’t get

from the lemon juice you can use actual

lemon juice but just realize it’s

usually pasteurized that’s heated

because vitamin C gets destroyed with

heat so if you just take an actual lemon

and juice it yourself that’s always the

best now as far as the supplements go

that are good for the liver full

transparency I do sell a liver cleansing

supplement but as far as nutrients go

these are the best things for the liver

at the top of the list would be milk

thistle milk thistle is used as the

antidote to poison I’m talking about uh

poisoning from mushrooms talking about

snake poisoning I’m talking about being

poisoned from Tylenol

and many other poisons it’s quite

amazing milk thistle basically has this

super power to protect the liver but

it’s also good for a fatty liver it’s

also good to get rid of inflammation and

to prevent scar tissue of the liver and

that term is called cirrhosis choline I

mentioned that before you can get that

as a supplement to choline helps strip

fat off the liver then we have turmeric

okay that’s really powerful for the

liver too as an antioxidant it helps

reduce inflammation in the liver and

it’s been known to help you reduce fat

on the liver too purified bowel salts

are also good to reduce fat in the liver

and a lot of people are deficient in

bile and so things kind of back up from

the bile ducts and when things back up

you can’t detoxify so part of

detoxification is allowing things to

flow through the liver and bile solids

many times can open up the stuck flow so

things can flow through and out through

into the small intestine probiotics are

really good for the liver as well and

the last remedy would be something

called tocatrinals This is a type of

vitamin E that works 50 times stronger

and it’s really good for an inflamed

liver and that’s called hepatitis but

any inflammation on the heart or the

liver can be helped using tocotrenals so

it can inhibit fibrosis because if you

think about vitamin E is you can rub it

into the skin to help get rid of scar

tissue well tocotrinos is really good

for scarring of your liver now there’s

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