How Do You Protect Yourself From a Fatty Liver? With JJ Virgin

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Fatty liver it's happening in kids. What the heck is going on and why is this happening? Fructose is one of the worst offenders here.

Here's JJ Virgin triple board certified nutrition and fitness expert and four time York.

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It's time to reignite wellness.

Hey, welcome to Friday Q and A. All right, today we are going to be talking fatty liver. This was a question that came through on Instagram while I was doing a live and she or he said, because the name is not here, said would love to know how do you protect yourself if you have a fatty liver condition? If you're already doing good lifestyle, don't eat processed sugar and have your hormones imbalanced and you're active. All right, well, before we go there, first thing we should talk about is what the heck is fatty liver? How do you know if you have it, et cetera. So let's go there first. Fatty liver, also known as hepatic steatosis.

That means fatty liver.

It's when, it's when fat builds up in the liver. So small amounts of fat in the liver is normal. Too much, it's not a good thing. Your liver is actually the second largest organ in your body. It helps process nutrients from food and drinks and filters harmful substances from your blood. And the issue is that too much fat in your liver causes liver inflammation, can damage it and can actually lead to liver failure. Now we used to always think of it as alcoholic fatty liver disease because that's where we used to see it. Then all of a sudden we started getting non alcoholic fatty liver disease. Now they're saying that this could be affecting as many as 25 to 30% of the people in the US and it's happening in kids. What the heck is going on and why is this happening? Fructose is one of the worst offenders here. So high fructose corn syrup, all the added sugars and then things like agave and straight fructose and apple juice and apple juice concentrate, all of these things and excess of any of these things. That's why you eat an Apple. You don't drink apple juice and you don't add sugar into foods. You get your sweetness from things that are naturally sweet, like blueberries. Okay, so how do you know if you have it? Well, quite often you're not going to notice it. And that's kind of the issue if you, you know, if you really, if it really gets bad, it's known as cirrhosis. And then you might have weight loss and fatigue and weakness and loss of appetite and all sorts of things, but most likely it hasn't gotten there and you're going to catch it way earlier. And the way you would catch it is through an exam and really the lab test looking at elevated liver enzymes. So it's one source, there's some other ways too. But again, it's like, you know, make sure you're checking in with your doctor. All right, so that's, that's what it is. Now let's talk about what to do. Obviously the first step is to make sure that you are not drinking because alcohol can give you alcoholic fatty liver and non alcoholic fatty liver generally is through sugar and especially fructose. It's the worst offender of all. So let's take a hard look at your diet. That's why created the Sugar Impact diet and then online, the breakthrough carb intolerance online program that will help you find where all the sugar is sneaking in and then it will help you swap it down to lower your sugar impact and to retrain your taste bud to appreciate the natural sweetness of things like sweet potato, vanilla, cinnamon, et cetera. And again, we want to really watch dried fruit, fruit juice, fruit juice concentrates, agave, honey, all of that. Then also you want to look at some of the medications that could be contributing to fatty liver. Things like corticosteroids, some antidepressants, tamoxifen, things like that. Then let's look at things that can help and things that can help. There are two supplements that can help dramatically and if you go to jjvirgin.com questions, we'll put the link in to be able to get the list of these and also be able to save 20%. But annattotokatrienols is one product that can help with fatty liver and then another product called GG for Geronol. Geronol. So both of those are, have been found to be really helpful. Now omega 3 fatty acids are another one because they can help lower triglyceride levels and reduce inflammation and of course help restore insulin sensitivity. And then also getting your gut in check that can help a ton too. Of course. I have a probiotic prebiotic I like to use called Microbiome balance for that. Another one people don't think about very often that's hugely helpful is something called berberine. And berberine can help with insulin sensitivity and balancing blood sugar as well. And then one other really good liver supplement of course that has milk thistle and that is LVGB complex. I will put all of this because I know I just went boom, boom, boom, boom, boom in the show notes. So all of that will be in the show notes@jjvirgin.com forward/questions. That's where we put all of the information on questions that come through. All right, Remember, if you've got questions, I would love, love, love to answer them. So you can either put them into itunes when you go over there to subscribe and rate and review the show. Yes, that was a hint. And you can just look for Reignite Wellness show on itunes or jump on into my social media channels, especially when I'm live. You can either DM me or just reply to the chat when I'm up there live. And we will add you into our Google Doc of questions and I will get it answered. All right, see you next time.

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