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Is a Healthy Liver 🔥 Key to Hormonal Balance and Cancer Prevention?

1 May 2024 · 0 min

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Short educational YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining that the liver metabolizes hormones (notably estrogen) and that proper liver function is necessary to clear estrogen via safe pathways. The speaker warns that excessive production of the metabolite 4-hydroxyestrone can form reactive quinones that damage cellular DNA and raise cancer risk.

Your liver metabolizes your hormones. You need a proper, functioning liver to get rid of that estrogen in an appropriate way. When you're finished with it, you don't want to be making too much 4 hydroxy estrone because that can damage the cells through this quinone reaction. That damages the cell, damages the DNA inside the cell, and that can cause the cells to go rogue and increase their risks of cancer.