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did you realize that most of the damage

from drinking alcohol doesn’t actually

come from drinking alcohol let me

explain

now when you drink alcohol your liver

has to break it down and it does it

through an enzyme called alcohol

dehydrogenase so the byproduct of what

this enzyme breaks alcohol into is

called acetaldehyde here’s the problem

this by-product is highly toxic even in

low concentrations it has ability to

increase collagen growth in the liver

that’s called fibrosis as in cirrhosis

of the liver

so this by-product causes oxidation and

free radicals it’s the free radicals

from the byproduct that cause

destruction of the liver so then you

have a sequence of things that happen

you develop a fatty liver then you get

inflammation and the inflammation is

there because the body is trying to heal

something what is it trying to heal the

damage to the liver

okay then scar tissue develops and you

get cirrhosis now there are various

studies done on rats they fed rats

alcohol with a high-fat diet and they

found that this process actually

accelerates so just realize and this is

what they don’t tell you that high-fat

diet was really combination of high fats

and high sugars okay it wasn’t just a

high-fat diet so they omitted that one

little point and the problem is when you

add sugar to high fat or sugar to

protein you really spike the insulin

levels so you can pretty much just omit

and cross off this study because this

does not relate to what we’re talking

about now here’s the problem the liver

doesn’t give symptoms until there’s

extensive damage so you can go on for

years and years and years without any

symptoms and notice your gut increasing

but you might not make the connection

but that’s what’s happening the liver is

filling with fat it’s spilling off

around the organs and it’s ending up as

a visceral fat so there’s a lot of

extensive damage taking place but

without a lot of symptoms initially so

in the liver you have these little

functional units that detoxify they do

many things

they’re called lobules so you

anywhere between 5,000 and 10,000 of

these units and they’re nourished by

blood and they do a lot of things from

digestion to cleaning toxins but what

happens is when you get inflammation and

scar tissue you’re going to start losing

the function and a lot of things going

to happen from a loss of energy

production and this is why you might get

tired but the liver is robust and it has

the ability to regenerate but there is a

point of no return where there’s so much

damage you can’t reverse it and of

course the liver has the ability to

regenerate of course if you stop doing

things that are causing a destruction so

antioxidants have the power to protect

these functional units of the liver now

your body makes antioxidants and you get

any oxidants from your foods and when

you run out of these antioxidants your

cells become more susceptible to the

damage now the problem is you can’t just

go to GNC or the drug store and buy a

bottle of antioxidants to protect your

liver why because those are made

synthetically and the way the

antioxidants work are in networks you

have many different types of

antioxidants because when the

antioxidant donates an electron to the

free radical to stabilize that atom that

antioxidant now is unstable and it needs

an electron from another handy oxidant

so that’s why you need a network and

this is why you always want to get your

antioxidants from foods or food

concentrates so here’s a picture of a

free radical let’s say we have two

electrons that are supposed to be there

and you’re missing one electron so it’s

an unpaired electron so a free radical

is an unpaired electron these electrons

are spinning around this atom and ones

missing so if you imagine a disc that

just has one weight on the side and it’s

spinning and it’s just going all over

the place because it’s not symmetrical

that would be kind of a simple concept

to understand this so an antioxidant

gives up one of its electrons to

stabilize this free radical but then it

becomes to that degree of free radical

so this could stabilize but now this one

needs another electron from another

Antioch

so this is why many different in

accidents are necessary to pull off this

job this also explains why some drinkers

get cirrhosis and some don’t

it really has to do with that

individual’s antioxidant reserves

usually people that drink don’t eat

healthily also if you drink in smoke you

accelerate this process even more

because the free radicals from smoking

but if you compound this and you smoke

and drink and eat junk food you’re

really gonna be in trouble

alright guys so what can you do to solve

this other than give up the drinking

okay if you’re gonna drink it’s very

very important to consume a diet that’s

extremely high in antioxidants okay so

make sure you’re consuming a lot of

leafy greens and the more someone drinks

let’s say they’re an alcoholic the

greater amount of vegetables they should

be consuming the healthier the diet

alright guys thanks for watching I’ll

see in the next video

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