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So today we’re going to talk about how

to diagnose your liver from your foot

now we’re not actually giving you an

actual diagnosis we’re just using the

foot to look at indicators that you may

have a liver problem and I think one big

problem medicine is that everything is

so specialized you know you have just

one doctor that studies just the foot

and then you have another doctor that

just studies the liver a hepatologist

and sometimes if you just focus on one

area you’re not looking at the big

picture and you might not be able to

associate different relationships So

today we’re going to do that and the

more you understand about things like

this and the different associations the

more appreciation you’re going to have

for your body especially your liver and

I think the better you’re going to take

care of yourself I did another video on

this topic a while ago and I read one of

the comments that just prompted me to do

this updated video one lady mentioned

she drank a lot of alcohol and because

of that video she actually stopped

drinking so that’s incredible so let’s

Dive Right In and go to my whiteboard to

explain this next part all right let’s

start with these purple brown red dots

on the lower part of the legs what’s

going on here is we have leaky blood

vessels okay now there’s a medical term

which I’m going to introduce you to okay

so it’s a big word but I’ll Define it

it’s called

thrombocytopenia okay this condition

usually occurs with a liver problem all

right let’s break it down what is a

thrombocyte well it’s a platelet okay

what are platelets

they’re cells that help clot okay in

fact the Greek word for thrombo means

clot and then cyto means cell and then

pinia means low so we have low platelets

so thrombocytopenia is basically you are

not going to be able to clot and so

you’re going to have leaky blood vessels

and you’re going to see this right here

now you do see this Advanced liver

disease and you also see it in diabetes

which by the way the liver can actually

create diabetes so you might see them in

both conditions all right the next thing

is spider angioma it’s a spider-like

presentation of red blood vessels on

certain parts of your body and they can

show up in your ankles your foot your

lower legs other parts of the body this

is an estrogen problem because estrogen

dilates the blood vessels and that’s why

you see this in pregnancy because

pregnant women are high in estrogen also

as a side effect from taking birth

control pills hormone replacement

therapy as well as in liver conditions

because the liver helps to buffer

estrogen and if there’s damage in the

liver you’re going to have higher levels

of estrogen in men and women all right

the next one is cracked heels so

sometimes you get this cracked dry

bleeding skin around your heels that’s

usually a vitamin B3 deficiency now a B3

deficiency a real severe deficiency in

B3 would be pellegra but you can have a

subclinical pellagra which is not a

full-blown plega with all the different

symptoms but some of the symptoms which

involve the skin and so a B3 deficiency

affects areas of the body where you have

this higher rate of sell turnover like

the skin has to constantly replace

itself well when you’re deficient in B3

now you’re not going to be able to

replace these cells efficiently and it’s

going to show up in cracked skin now

what can cause that well liver problems

which can come from drinking too much

alcohol it can also come from consuming

too much corn and I’ll talk a little bit

about that in a bit okay so then we have

dry scaly skin so maybe a certain part

of your foot has this really roughened

dry scaly skin situation that’s usually

low omega-3 fatty acids and that can

come from a lack of bile because let’s

say part of the liver is fatty and it

can’t produce the bile to extract these

fat soluble nutrients one being

omega-3 fatty acids now this can also be

from consuming too many

omega-6 fatty acids and that would be

like the corn oil the soy oil the canola

even peanut oil safflower sunflower oil

all right the next one is itchy skin

this usually is a condition where the

bile is backing up because there’s some

type of sludge in the bile ducts and the

term for that is called choleostasis so

we’re having this backup of bile that

backs up in the liver it backs up into

the blood and into the skin and if

there’s bile in the skin you are going

to experience itchiness and many times

it’s in the foot the bottom part of the

foot maybe this area of the foot right

through here you probably will also see

your urine is darker your skin might be

a bit on the yellow side especially the

whites of the eyes and your stool might

be on the lighter side as far as the

color and then we have bad odor I mean

one of the purposes of liver is to

detoxify the body and so if the liver

can’t detoxify the toxins come out

through the skin I remember in practice

I learned a technique that really helped

people with low back pain by working on

their feet okay okay and so people would

come in and I’d be working on their feet

and different types of manipulation and

in massaging to the bottom of the foot

until some people came in with bad

livers I said after that you know I’m

going to refer these people out to work

on their feet because

some bad odor because certain people

even if they wash their feet on a

regular basis still will have this bad

odor if the liver is toxic

all right the other thing about the

bottom of the foot if the person has

pain numbness like a burning sensation

this is usually peripheral neuropathy

many times it’s diagnosed as a plantar

fasciitis but here’s the interesting

thing about that insulin resistance

which eventually turns into pre-diabetes

and then diabetes originates in the

liver so anyone with insulin resistance

pre-diabetes or diabetes is going to

have a liver problem and the more fat

and inflammation that the liver starts

to develop the more insulin resistance

they’re going to have which aggravates

the condition aggravates the blood sugar

situation and then we have this thing

called gout now normally when you think

about gout you think of the kidney right

because the kidney filters the blood and

it’s getting rid of this uric acid but

you have something called the urea cycle

okay which involves the breakdown of

protein and also involves uric acid and

so as you fix the liver and work on the

liver you’re going to find your gout

attacks your gout symptoms are going to

be much better but the main gout symptom

is pain in this big toe and this joint

right through here there’s inflammation

right there all right now we have

toenail fungus which usually is an

imbalance of microbes in your gut you

normally should have these Diversified

microbes to actually protect against the

overgrowth of fungus and so this is

associated with an imbalance in your

microflora and this is also associated

with the liver because the liver and the

bowel work very very closely and one of

the things that happens when the liver

is not working it’s not able to produce

the bile that’s supposed to keep the

small intestine clean of bacteria and

prevent an overgrowth so a healthy liver

can help prevent something called sibo

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

and to keep these microbes in check so

you don’t have this overgrowth of one

bacteria or a fungus versus another

alright the next thing you can have is

these corns on your toes usually they

grow on the inside of the toe it can be

very irritating and a corn is really a

vitamin A deficiency vitamin M A is

involved in the differentiation of

certain cells so anytime you’re

deficient vitamin A you’ll have all

sorts of skin issues maybe certain weird

growths that occur or dryness or

roughness so in addition to the omega-3

fatty acid deficiency you can also have

a vitamin A deficiency which comes from

the same thing low bile salts bile salts

help you break down the fat soluble

nutrients vitamin A d e k and a fatty

liver can prevent the production of bile

another symptom of a bad liver is when

your feet becomes very very hot so a

dysfunction with the liver will alter

the temperature of your feet and the

last symptom related to the liver is

this pitting edema so you press on your

lower leg and it leaves a little dent in

there that is a liver problem the liver

is normally supposed to make certain

proteins that keep this balance of fluid

in your body when you’re deficient in

these proteins you start backing up with

fluids and it starts to show up in

between the cells it’s called

interstitial spaces also in the spaces

around the abdomen usually you see this

with men who have cirrhosis they have

these like a pot belly there’s fluid

inside it’s called ascites or edema in

the lower part of your body usually in

your lower legs or feet which starts out

showing up more on the right side

because the liver is on the right side

and you have a lot of lymphatics that

can be backed up through that side if

you have a demon on both sides that

could affect the heart all right now

let’s go back to my office all right

we’re back and there’s two things I want

to mention okay real simply we’re going

to talk about what to avoid and then

what to do if you have a liver problem

okay so number one

um one of the biggest problems with

liver issues is taking a lot of

medications and of course I’m not going

to tell you to avoid your medications

but you might want to get with your

doctor to find some alternatives to

certain medications because if you’re on

quite a few medications that is going to

create a lot of damage to the liver

because medications have toxic effects

and the liver is all about

detoxification so reducing the load is

going to be probably one of the most

important things all right number two

reducing the amount of sugar in refined

carbohydrates it’s going to make a huge

change to your liver

the more sugar the more refined

carbohydrates the more fat you’re going

to generate on your liver and I think

some people are not aware of the fact

that the cholesterol in their

bloodstream and the fat on their liver

most likely came from carbohydrates or

sugar and not the dietary fat or

cholesterol they’re consuming so sugar

gets converted to cholesterol and fat in

the body there’s a whole pathway that

does this and it ends up in your liver

all right number three the worse off

your liver is the less you need to

consume cooked Foods so if you’re eating

all these cooked Foods you’re basically

killing off the enzymes that the liver

needs to help with digestion foods that

can sit on the shelf life for a long

time are really hard on the liver all

right number four

this thing called alcohol okay alcohol

as you already know is a huge burden on

the liver and many other parts of the

body as well if you’re drinking alcohol

for health reasons they’ve recently

found out that there is no health

benefits to alcohol your body has to

detoxify it alcohol creates a lot of

deficiencies especially vitamin B3 which

relates to a kind of a pellegral like

symptoms which is like dermatitis a lot

of skin issues not to mention B1

deficiencies magnesium deficiencies zinc

deficiencies all sorts of nutrient

deficiencies so if you can’t completely

give up alcohol reduce it as much as you

can all right number five and this is

obvious you already know this junk food

fast food the food from fast food

restaurants are pretty deadly to the

liver of course I remember in college

living off different specials they had

at Burger King and McDonald’s and uh I

paid the price and of course I Justified

it by saying I’ll eat healthy when I

graduate and then when I graduated I

said I’ll eat healthy when I get older

and that just kept going on and on all

right number six you want to avoid porn

okay now why am I saying corn because

there’s something very specific about

corn corn has extremely low vitamin B3

and extremely low tryptophan that turns

into vitamin B3 and I already mentioned

this condition called pellegra which is

a vitamin B3 deficiency and you can also

have a subclinical pellagra type

situation where you’re very very low in

vitamin B3 as well as tryptophan that

won’t turn into B3 and you can have

various symptoms that relate to your

skin like dermatitis but also like

diarrhea and even dementia but it

creates all sorts of problems with your

like your heel cracking the skin being

very dry and Flaky and you might say

well well I don’t really consume any

corn do you realize the average person

in America consumes 1

540 pounds or 700 kilograms of corn

every single year now to be totally

transparent I think some of that

consumption and I’m not 100 sure could

include ethanol like buying ethanol in

your gasoline so I’m not exactly sure if

it’s 1500 pounds I mean it could be a

lot less but it’s definitely at least

350 pounds but we have corn flour in

different products I mean there’s

literally hundreds of foods that have

corn in them grits corn chips high

fructose corn syrup kids are just

drinking tons of corn a certain

alcoholic beverages are made from corn

you have corn oil that’s in a lot of

different foods as well as your salad

dressing

maltodextrin which is a synthetic sugar

is you usually from corn you have

popcorn you have dextrose which is

another synthetic sugar which is on a

lot of different foods modified corn

starch and then you also have 60 percent

of the feeds to livestock are made from

corn I’m talking about the beef Pig

chicken okay so all this corn goes into

the animal and you’re basically eating

corn indirectly so like I said before

corn can create a B3 deficiency and a

tryptophan deficiency if you’re not also

consuming other things that are high in

B3 and tryptophan like animal products

eggs dairy

Etc all right so let’s talk about what’s

good for the liver okay well if you have

any problem with the gallbladder you

need something called Tad cut okay Tad

cut is a type of bile salt that is

wonderful for the liver it’ll help to

thin the bile and drain all the the

pipes of the liver and allow toxins to

freely float through these little pipes

into your small intestine number two one

of the best herbs actually the best

herbs

actually the best herb for the liver is

milk thistle okay and you might even

have it in your backyard but milk

thistle has special properties to

protect the liver it’s used if someone

has some type of poisoning either from a

mushroom or maybe a snake or maybe

medication in fact if you do take

medications you should at the same time

be taking milk thistle to protect the

liver and milk thistle as well as that

tatka can help reduce fat on your liver

and number three we have can start

consuming more cruciferous vegetables

the kale the broccoli the Brussels

sprouts the cabbage

those vegetables are high in Sulfur

which are really important in the

detoxification process of the liver as

well as the detoxification of excess

amount of estrogen that builds up in the

liver all right number four fasting and

I’m talking regular

daily fasting like if you can do one

meal a day that would be awesome because

the more fasting you can do the more

good you’re going to do for your liver

at the very minimum do two meals no

snacks all right number five healthy

keto doing the healthy version of the

ketogenic diet using high quality foods

that will greatly take the stress off

the liver you can actually decrease the

fat off the liver even within two weeks

of doing the ketogenic diet wow you just

have something very effective to do with

that liver and number six cod liver oil

what’s unique about cod liver oil is

that it’s high in omega-3 fatty acids

which is going to help the fat on the

liver to reduce inflammation help break

down scar tissue of the liver but also

you have vitamin A and vitamin D which

is also great for your skin and some of

the other symptoms that you might have

on your foot now a really important next

video for you to watch would be the best

seven foods to clean out your liver and

this gives you much better detail on

what you need to be eating and I put

that video right here check it out