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today we’re going to show you the best

seven foods that you need to be eating

to clean out your liver now what many

people don’t realize about the liver is

they think it’s a storage place for

toxins when

it normally does not store toxins it

gets rid of toxins now toxins are stored

in the fat cells so if you have a fatty

liver chances are you will have toxins

stored in your liver but if you don’t

have fat on your liver you’re not going

to store toxins now before i get into

the foods i want to jump right into what

the liver does okay so number one it

helps detoxify the body so let’s go to

the white board to explain that point

all right check this out we have the

liver and the liver goes through two

different phases actually three phases

but i’m going to focus on these two

phases right here when it gets rid of

poisons or toxins

phase one is all about breaking things

down okay turning poisons

into

a water-soluble harmless particle which

is in the phase two so we’ve got this

whole chemical reaction there’s a lot of

different chemical reactions that occur

not just one so phase one is breaking

things down and then phase two is about

adding things to that uh new molecule

and you need certain nutrients on both

of these sections you have b vitamins

you need antioxidants b12 folate and a

lot of other nutrients so what is the

liver breaking down it’s breaking down

plastics pesticides insecticides

herbicides fungicides alcohol caffeine

drugs

aspirin

tylenol

corticosteroids antidepressants high

blood pressure medications

recreational drugs

pollution and and the million chemicals

that come with that

both in the air the water in your food

and then you have people that are

smokers or you get secondhand smoke

benzene and hundreds of other different

chemicals

that’s going right through your body

into your liver that the liver is coping

with and trying to get rid of all these

things solvent and glyphosate which is

in gmo food this is like a real big one

for a lot of people so then a kind of

phase three would be the elimination of

this new compound that’s now a harmless

particle and it’s quite amazing that

your body does this because your body is

able to detoxify naturally which is

really cool now what happens if you get

constipation well everything backs up so

it’s very important to not let

constipation go on and on and on do

something about it i have a lot of

videos on that but there’s another

condition that’s very common

but they’re not aware of it and that’s

bile sludge there’s such a thing as bio

sludge and so you have the gallbladder

and you have all these tubes that kind

of drain into the gallbladder and out

into the small intestine all these

different tubes can get

backed up with kind of a thickened bile

material and so one way to know if you

have that problem is you have

pain or tension or tightness on the

right side up through here

it could be a fullness underneath your

right rib cage in which case you need to

number one take something called tutka

you can look that up as well as follow

the solutions that i’m going to get into

later in this video now a couple other

things that can mess this process up

let’s say you’re missing b vitamins you

don’t have the right

nutrients that can slow things down

or let’s say you have a fatty liver that

can decrease the function of the liver

or if the liver is inflamed or if you

have scar tissue as in cirrhosis all

these things can slow down

this process as well as not consuming

some of the foods i’m going to talk

about but the good news about the liver

is that it’s one of the only organs that

can regenerate very quickly as long as

you have some liver left like 25 percent

and you change your ways your liver can

grow back into a normal liver so that’s

really exciting but there’s always a

point of limitation where there’s too

much damage that can be done this

explains liver detox all right number

two it actually makes something called

bile bile is uh very similar to like

detergent or soap it helps to extract

certain nutrients and food that are fat

cybel like the fat cyber vitamins

vitamin a d e k 1 k 2 also omega 3 fatty

acids also

there are certain plant nutrients

they’re called phytonutrients like

lutein for example that’s really good

for the eye

and so a lot of these phytonutrients in

plants are also fat soluble this is why

when you have a salad it’s really good

to add olive oil or some other oil to

help extract these nutrients from the

salad but bile has this unique property

to extract these nutrients from your

food and bile is made from your liver

and it’s stored in the gallbladder and

as a side note all the extra cholesterol

that your body

makes as well as gets from your diet

is extracted with the help of bile bile

is also involved in helping you

make your thyroid hormones work so when

we go through t4 which is an inactive

hormone to t3 which is the active form

of the thyroid hormone you need bile and

bile also helps us to ensure that

there’s no microbes building up in our

small intestine and one last little

point of a bile which is interesting

guess what makes bile cholesterol

cholesterol is the raw material that

helps make bile interesting all right

number three function of the liver

your liver makes certain hormones okay

now you’ve probably heard of growth

hormone that’s made by your pituitary

and that goes down to the liver and then

that activates another hormone that the

liver makes called insulin growth factor

number one igf-1 and you can think of

igf-1 as just basically an extension

of growth hormone so whatever growth

hormone does igf-1 will do so it’s going

to help you with fat burning and it’s

going to help you make proteins now as

another part of this liver function

related to hormones it helps you

buffer hormones so if there’s too much

estrogen in the body or too much

androgens like testosterone

your liver will help to

regulate that also if there’s too much

of stress hormone like cortisol the

liver will help you regulate that as

well so whether the liver becomes fatty

or

inflamed

or develops scar tissue as in cirrhosis

all sorts of symptoms can occur and to

help you understand the symptoms let’s

go back to my white board all right

these are the symptoms of the liver

itchiness especially in your feet

fatigue or lethargy

belly fat because the liver is filling

up with fat and it’s spilling off into

areas around the organs and in the

organs in your abdomen diabetes and

pre-diabetes and insulin resistance

which comes before both of those things

hormonal imbalances especially with

estrogen

testosterone which have all sorts of

cascade issues from

hair loss to menstrual cycle issues to

menopausal problems

many different types of skin problems

occur because of the liver

joint issues like especially arthritis

stiffness

and things related to the gallbladder

like belching burping bloating

gall stones

as well as hypothyroidism because we

need a healthy liver to convert at least

80 percent of the thyroid from t4 the

inactive to t3 the active form of the

thyroid hormone

now there’s a couple little last things

i want to mention you have these liver

enzyme tests ast

alt

alp if you ever get your

liver tested and there’s problem with

one of these three high liver enzymes

like ast

that means there’s damage from toxins

like it could be alcohol medication or

some other toxin

whereas if it’s a high alt that’s mainly

damaged from just having a fatty liver

and then if it’s high alp that could

mean you have a blockage in your bile

duct okay or bile sludge so these are

the main liver symptoms now i do want to

touch on the bad foods for the liver

before the good foods so let me just

quickly go through them the high

fructose corn syrup okay anything with

high amounts of fructose

is really bad for your liver because it

creates all sorts of problems with

insulin it creates a fatty liver okay so

then we have like various poisons for

the liver so poisons is a pretty large

category you have pesticides

insecticides herbicides fungicides you

have heavy metals okay all these things

can be in our food supply but you also

have other poisons like medications yes

medications are also poisons and so a

lot of people develop complications from

their medications that involve damaging

the liver especially things like

prednisone right is it which is a

synthetic cortisol just devastating to

your liver then you have many others

like antacids antibiotics vegetable oils

these are unsaturated oils like corn oil

like soy oil cottonseed canola safflower

and too much sunflower and too much

peanut oil are all high in something

called omega-6 which are inflammatory

especially if they’re heated as in fried

foods

you know i see this a lot when you go to

restaurants they have these appetizers

which you eat to stimulate your appetite

like maybe you weren’t hungry at all

going to this restaurant you need to

stimulate your appetite get the juices

going and you have things that are

always involving these vegetable oils

like deep-fried onion rings or the

deep-fried cheese or deep-fried pickles

or corn chips then you have things that

are fried in the oil and sweetened like

the deep fried chicken wings that they

have then you have these veggie rolls

which are deep fried and then you dip

them in some type of sugary sauce right

then you have other things with the corn

chips you have all these different dips

all these wonderful appetizers are just

terrible for the liver what’s also hard

in the liver is when you have sugar with

protein as in barbecue ribs okay so

that’s really hard on the liver

ribs are fine as long as you don’t add

the sugary type sauce with them and then

we also have the combination of like

meat and starch right then you have

steak and potato or steak and fries

well you should have this have the steak

and the vegetable but not the starch and

especially not the french fried starch

all these things are really hard on the

liver the more cooked foods that you eat

the more canned foods you eat the harder

it is on the liver as well so that means

the body has to make enzymes and it kind

of depletes the enzyme reserve and so at

least 50 percent of the time you should

be consuming some raw foods like

vegetables things like that and of

course we have alcohol sugar

refined foods like refined carbohydrates

now one point about the liver

if your liver is damaged or fatty okay

and it’s swollen

that may refer pain to the right side of

your back a little bit lower

right between the scapula and the spine

it’s called the rhomboid muscle and

you’ll have tightness

in the back right through here i used to

have that for

many many years i had no idea what it

was and it would go to the chiropractor

and have millions of adjustments and it

never got better well that’s because it

was my liver now if the gallbladder

itself is congested not necessarily with

stones but just with sludge

that creates tightness on the right part

of your right trap right through here

that can radiate up to your neck

and you’ll a lot of times get that

massage for so many

years without relief

now if the ducts the little bile ducts

between the liver and the gallbladder

are kind of clogged because they’re

sludge or stone

that can refer pain anywhere in this

area because it can back up to the liver

as well as some fullness or tightness or

pain

underneath the right rib cage okay so i

just wanted to point that out all right

so what are the foods that are best for

the liver well it would be those foods

that provide detoxification

that provide

lowering inflammation

that helps slow down the scarring

process and the development into

cirrhosis let’s start with number one

cruciferous vegetables that would be the

kale the broccoli the arugula the

cabbage the beets the brussels sprouts

and there’s many more so cruciferous

vegetables not only have these enzymes

to help this phase one phase two

detoxification process

but they also can trigger your own

body’s production of these enzymes to

help the detoxification process plus

they’re loaded with nutrients as well as

hundreds of phytonutrients that are

anti-inflammatory that are anti-cancer

that are liver protective that help your

blood sugars so if we take it one step

further and we take cabbage and ferment

it into sauerkraut we have extra

benefits of the probiotics in that

product so that’s going to help get rid

of the fat from your liver it’s going to

reduce the inflammation on your liver

and the fiber itself can actually feed

the microbes in your colon

to help make more bile which will then

help you thin your bile and allow things

to travel through the liver a lot better

so it doesn’t back up but sauerkraut is

awesome for the liver

because it’s easy to digest it also is

loaded with vitamin c i mean i think one

cup of like homemade sauerkraut is

almost 700 milligrams of vitamin c

that’s higher than anything else out

there what i’ve been doing recently is

not just having lettuce for my salad

i’ll alternate between

cabbage i can cut cabbage or coleslaw

and then other days i’ll do arugula so

that will just give me extra benefits

than just having the regular lettuce and

then sometimes i’ll do a kale salad okay

kale is like just a powerhouse as far as

phytonutrients and some people steam it

because sometimes it’s hard to

chew and digest in a salad what you

might want to try is to take

organic kale raw

put it into the freezer freeze it take

it out

and then it breaks into these little

crystals that you can then put into your

blender

add some blueberries with some water

blend it up and drink your kale salad

number two food is eggs now why are eggs

good for the liver because eggs have the

highest amount of choline

and choline is one of the most powerful

things to strip fat from your liver and

it does a lot of other good things too

but it will also help you regulate

cholesterol but also as far as the

detoxification process

you need a high quality protein and eggs

are at the top of the list to give you

those amino acids

that are necessary for detoxification

but as far as the protein goes

it is the highest quality protein that

you can eat and it’s very easy to digest

and it’s really easy on the liver

compared to other proteins that are

really hard on the liver the worst

protein that you can eat for the liver

is the soy protein isolates

also whey protein is hard on liver

because these isolates are kind of a

refined protein product and anytime you

eat something out of the normal complex

your body has a hard time with it all

right number three

sprouts

specifically broccoli sprouts but other

sprouts are good too so what’s so unique

about the broccoli sprout is it has like

a hundred times the amount of

sulfurophane as adult broccoli and

sulforaphane is one of those

powerful phytonutrients

that is not only cancer protective but

it helps with this phase one phase two

detoxification turning poisons into

harmless particles so if you were to

take just a small amount of sprouts and

put them in your salad or take like a

half a cup of sprouts put them in a

blender with some berries and blend that

down with water you would have something

that is very beneficial for your liver

all right number four

beets beets have special properties that

reduce inflammation in the liver help to

mobilize the bile release from the liver

beets are also good to reduce fat on

your liver even though they’re a little

bit sweeter they also can help your

blood sugars so you could eat your beets

raw but it’s really hard to chew so i

would steam them and you can add them

with all sorts of recipes and stews put

them on your salad it’s it’s endless

also as a side note

don’t shoot away the beet tops okay

because the beet tops

have the most potassium of anything you

can eat so you want to chop those up put

those in your salad all right number

five garlic garlic is loaded with the

sulfur that your liver needs to make

those compounds in that phase one phase

two detoxification not to mention it’s

anti-inflammatory it’s antimicrobial so

it does a lot for the liver all right

number six salmon

or other omega-3 fatty acid foods you

can do sardines

you can even do what i like is canned

cob liver okay it’s not just cod liver

oil it’s called liver it’s quite good

but one recipe that i really like in my

salad is to chop up cabbage

and take a can of tuna and mix it with

the cabbage okay so now we have the

omega-3 and the cruciferous together

i’ll put some lemon i’ll put olive oil

and i’ll make a great salad another

recipe that i like is

roasted

brussels sprouts with salmon that’s a

really good combination we got the

omega-3 and the cruciferous and number

seven is lemon lemon is not only loaded

with vitamin c if it’s

raw not pasteurized but lemon can help

reduce fat on your liver lemon is

anti-inflammatory and it’s very sour in

anything sour or bitter is good for the

liver so basically seven foods

you could pretty much mix them all

together and have one meal and that

would be the most awesome meal for your

liver

now there’s other things that are good

for the liver as well like apple cider

vinegar of course diluted in water and

drink that great for blood sugars great

for your liver especially for fatty

liver then you have olive oil which

helps you extract fat soluble nutrients

from your

salad and it has anti-inflammatory

properties and you should really use the

extra virgin olive oil in all of your

salads now this is not necessarily a

food it’s just an herb but out of all

the herbs okay that are good for the

liver the top plant would be milk

thistle now milk thistle has fascinating

properties related to the liver

it is liver protective

it actually protects the liver from

poisoning and all types of poisoning

poisonous mushrooms

uh poison from a snake

poisons from tylenol alcohol heavy

metals pesticides so if you have

anything wrong with your liver you

should probably be taking milk thistle

as a routine thing especially if you’re

on medications because milk thistle can

reduce the complications from medication

now there’s some fascinating information

that i did a video on relating to

certain

problems with your foot and how you can

use that to determine the health of your

liver you haven’t seen that video you

should really check it out i put it up

right here in the liver playlist