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in this video i’m going to talk about something  called ascites ascites is a condition where  

someone’s belly is protruded it’s usually not  fat it’s mostly fluid the latin word for ascites  

is bag like because it looks like this bag that’s  hanging from your abdomen now the appearance is  

usually protruded like a basketball it’s usually  not sagging too much it’s kind of sticking out  

and if you tap on one side you’ll see  kind of a ripple on the other side  

and this is because it’s filled with fluid  because the liver is leaking certain fluid  

into a sac around the abdominal organs the  most common cause of ascites is cirrhosis  

this is a condition where the liver has so much  scar tissue it’s overwhelming the liver function  

and now the liver can’t do its thing and so  it’s leaking fluid into the gut now there’s  

other causes to cirrhosis as well you can have  cancer pancreatitis heart disease or even tb  

but most people with this condition um have  cirrhosis now in past videos i talked about  

the guy on the beach with the speedo with this  protruded belly he’s actually skinny everywhere  

but his belly is protruding that kind of gives  you a visual of what i’m talking about now there’s  

other associated symptoms that come with this  we have portal hypertension which you have high  

blood pressure in the venous part of your body  edema in the lower legs so let’s say you press  

into your lower leg and it leaves an indentation  okay it’s called pitting edema you may have spider  

veins around your abdomen or you might have a  lot of bruising in the lower legs you might have  

gynecomastia which is breast tissue in men that’s  not normal you may even vomit blood as one of the  

side effects now another common symptom involves  your brain where you have too much ammonia  

building up and that can create a lot of confusion  and cognitive dysfunction and several remedies  

for that would be number one taking lactolose  sauerkraut can help reduce ammonia from the body  

and consuming more vegetables would be a good  thing making sure you don’t consume excessive  

amounts of protein have a lesser amount and taking  l-glutamine can help now what’s interesting when i  

was in practice i had medical doctors come in  as patients and i always ask them what is the  

typical treatment for societies medically and they  would say a drainage so they would drain the fluid  

they would put the patient on a low salt diet  they would give them a diuretic and many times  

they would have to be on the liver transplant list  because other than these typical treatments there  

was no other treatment and i would always  say like why wouldn’t you support the liver  

with maybe something natural but they’re just  not trained in these natural remedies so if  

i had ascites this is what i would do i would  immediately start intermittent fasting because  

fasting can help reduce liver enzymes it  can help improve liver function it can help  

decrease the growth of fibrous tissue and scar  tissue lessening the intensity of cirrhosis  

i would also get on something called milk  thistle which can be very hepatoprotective  

which means it protects the cells of the  liver it can also reduce inflammation as  

well i would also get on vitamin e which is the  most powerful antioxidant when it comes down to  

reducing oxidation free radical damage of  various tissues as well as being anti-fibrotic  

so it slows down inflammation and slows down the  process of the liver developing fibrous tissue  

and scar tissue the type of vitamin e that you  take is very important i would only recommend  

taking tocotrinols not the tocopherols it’s going  to be 50 times more potent the next thing i would  

take would be selenium selenium is one of the best  antioxidants for the liver and i would definitely  

also go low carb because high carb creates more  oxidation more scar tissue all right thanks for  

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