fatty liver disease

And what you get is you get all this fat accumulated in the liver.

You get all this fatty liver.

So your liver is big, and this is actually one of the major causes of liver failure.

So even though the carbohydrates don't have triglycerides, it turns on the production of triglycerides.

Whereas if you eat fat, it actually doesn't make any difference.

And we actually already knew this because if you look at foie gras, which is the fatty liver of a goose or duck, we know how to give ducks fatty liver.

You force feed them.

So this is how they make foie gras.

And then liver disease.

So say this is sort of the thing, and that is people who have one cardiometabolic risk factor and steatosis in the liver.

Steatosis in liver just means that you have more than five percent of, of your liver is with fat.

And that you could see with most normally with, with a bit of whatever imaging.

It could be an ultrasound or a CT scan.

But I was gonna talk a little bit about the failure of, uh, uptake really today because I think that needs to be addressed.

So the conclusions I had from 2019 was that there was sufficient evidence to use a first-line treatment for fatty liver disease or obviously diabetes as well at that time.

Um, but I had found very good responses for things like irritable bowel and reflux for which there is ev- there s- there is evidence, but it's all small and trying to do a randomized controlled trial of those things is very difficult.

And as everyone would know, doing randomized controlled trials of diet is, is impossible.

So that's why I've sort of been into farming, I guess, since 2019.

So I've been using the diets for a decade.

It's default diet for fatty liver, which is 30% of the adult population.

It certainly works for reflux, which is an early sign of metabolic dysfunction.

And importantly, The liver contains enzymes called diiodinases that participate in thyroid hormone metabolism.

So today, I want to show you the connection between Hashimoto's, your thyroid hormones, your liver, fatty liver, inflammation, toxins, and even reverse T3.

And I'm also going to explain something that I think is extremely important.

Why simply taking a liver detox supplement is usually not the answer.

That's an important distinction.

Now here's where this gets really interesting.

Hashimoto's and fatty liver.

You might think, what does my thyroid have to do with fatty liver? Quite a lot, potentially.

Right.

He's a leading medical doctor and an absolute pioneer in the study of fatty liver disease.

Exactly.

And he shared this DIY string test that literally stopped me in my tracks.

A healthy liver is a deep, rich red, but as it gets overworked and stuffed with fat droplets, it literally changes color.

It turns into a swollen, sickly yellow organ.

A fatty liver, which Dr. Unwin notes affects roughly a third of people in the developed world now.

A third.

When

fat gets in there, fructose, turns your liver into this fatty liver,

which is extremely dangerous.

Because what happens in the liver doesn't stay in the liver.

You don't want that.

And it's not fat that gives it to you.

You can eat 100 steaks and you're not going to get fatty liver from eating 100 steaks.

You get it from drinking the wrong sugar, the high fructose corn syrup, consuming it, especially drinking it.

And suddenly the liver starts acting not so great anymore.

We got fatty liver, it's not doing its job.

And suddenly that starts to be labeled as disease.

Got it.

I know animal metabolism is a little bit different than human metabolism, but at least points in that direction that having a high amount of this for a month It's really not that big of a deal if you then have a time where maybe you're getting a lot less or none of it.

So that makes a lot of sense.

Can you go into greater detail and explain the connection between fructose and fatty liver disease and why we're noticing so many people who are not drinking that are getting liver disease and at very young ages as well?

Certainly.

So I'm gonna calm right down and try and explain today's topic as well as I can and as clearly as I can, which is a topic I actually don't think I've ever specifically covered in my writing, on podcasts, ever.

Not because it doesn't cross my path, but because it is not as simple as this is what you do for it, and the topic is fatty liver.

And I know that in different areas, bookshops, supplements, there is a lot of supplements and titles that target liver function, and one of the reasons I don't cover it is that it's not as cut and dry as people make it seem.

And I want to deep dive this topic today because in the past few weeks I've had a couple of clients cross my path who have been told by their doctor that they have fatty liver disease.

Now, in one of those cases, indeed my client has had a full scan of the liver and there is obesity, there's a positive family history.

Absolutely she has fatty liver disease.

But I'm also seeing it more when women, particularly women in their 40s and 50s, are going to speak to a GP, maybe a doctor they don't see all the time, maybe at a medical center, and they're getting back routine blood checks and they'll find some of their liver enzymes might be elevated, and they're very quickly told they have fatty liver and they need to lose weight and fix the liver.

And I wanna chat today 'cause it's a lot more complicated than that, and that's possibly why you don't ever hear dieticians saying, "This is what to eat for fatty liver," because it's actually very complicated.