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most people think that a fatty liver

comes mainly from drinking too much

alcohol but there’s a much more common

disorder called

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and

alcohol is just one of the many causes

of a fatty liver but when we talk about

nutritional deficiencies there is one

common nutrient that is nearly always

deficient when you have a fatty liver in

fact if you don’t consume enough of this

nutrient from your food you will develop

a fatty liver and that nutrient is

called choline okay now choline isn’t

technically a vitamin but it is an

essential nutrient it lives in the

family of the b vitamins because it

works with certain b vitamins like b12

and folic acid but one of its main

purposes is to remove fat from your

liver and if you don’t have enough

choline

you will not be able to get rid of fat

from your liver choline is also involved

in brain chemistry and muscle chemistry

and cell membranes and the deficiency of

choline is actually pretty common

there’s even a genetic defect that is

also very common with choline it’s

called polymorphism it’s a common

genetic problem that a lot of people

have and normal amounts of choline don’t

seem to

fix a choline deficiency and you need to

take more choline to create the effect

and there’s some other very interesting

reasons why you may be deficient in

choline that relate to a fatty liver

now if we actually go beyond some of the

typical reasons

why people develop a fatty liver you

know drinking alcohol consuming carbs

taking corticosteroids tylenol certain

medications solvents petroleum products

viruses consuming too many seed oils

which are high in omega 6 which create

inflammation or of course the fructose

or high fructose corn syrup then we get

to these four things that cause a fatty

liver anorexia nervosa

gastric bypass

parenteral nutrition that is nutrition

fed from an iv

and antibiotics now why would someone

with these situations have a fatty liver

well with anorexia you get severe

malnutrition so not only do you develop

a choline deficiency you also create a

deficiency of vitamin d folic acid b12

and b3 these deficiencies also cause a

fatty liver so malnutrition causes

damage to your liver which then leads to

a fatty liver gastric bypass you’re

moving part of the stomach as well as

part of the small intestine that allows

you to absorb these nutrients okay so

you actually create nutritional

deficiencies when you get a gastric

bypass operation now what about

parenteral nutrition well they only put

certain nutrients

in this iv

mainly synthetic but they don’t put all

the vitamins that you would need to

protect your liver i mean there’s a lot

of data on this it also could be the

amount of dextrose which is a synthetic

sugar that’s in here that’s going to

create a fatty liver but if you take

that too long you will end up with a

fatty liver

now what about antibiotics what’s the

relationship between that and choline

well guess what your microbes in your

gut

make some of the choline and if you

destroy the microbes

you’re going to be deficient

so now the next question is what foods

are high in choline well it’s the foods

that you may think cause a fatty liver

egg yolks

liver

beef

chicken as well as cruciferous

vegetables fatty salmon almonds which

have a smaller amount and just so you

know a high-fat diet doesn’t cause fat

on your liver and if you see a study

that will say that it does

read the study and you’re going to find

out the mice experiments that they did

it within that study were not just on a

high fat diet they’re on a high fat diet

with a high carbohydrate diet so that is

just a side note so whether you have a

fatty liver caused by

any of these right here

alcohol or carbohydrates or sugar i

would highly recommend to start taking

choline or start consuming the foods

high in choline if you’re going to take

it as a supplement i would recommend

taking about three grams a day that will

speed up the removal of fat from your

liver dramatically however if you also

add

the ketogenic diet you can remove up to

50 of your fat within 14 days and if you

haven’t seen my video on that i put it

up right here check it out

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