In this YouTube video, the host (Matt Kelly) explains how the liver’s natural regenerative capacity can be supported by reducing toxic stress and choosing liver‑friendly foods. He first advises eliminating or limiting substances that overburden the liver—excess alcohol, unnecessary medications, high‑fructose corn syrup, artificial colorings, preservatives, and exposure to pesticides or herbicides. He then emphasizes a plant‑rich diet, highlighting beets (including beet greens), collard greens, other dark leafy vegetables, asparagus, and brightly colored fruits and berries as sources of polyphenols, flavonoids, vitamins, minerals, and methionine that aid detoxification. The discussion moves to animal proteins, recommending organic or locally sourced options, especially line‑caught fish (e.g., West‑Coast salmon) over farmed varieties, and low‑fat poultry, because fats store chemical toxins. Throughout, the presenter stresses that consistent, long‑term dietary clean‑up can trigger the liver’s regenerative response, leading to measurable improvements in liver function tests. The video ends with a typical YouTube call‑to‑action for comments, subscriptions, and related videos.
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Look, the liver loves to heal if you give it a chance. With that in mind, and in honor of my late mentor, Dr. Gregg, I want to get into a few things that you can do to help your liver out. If the liver is able to heal and we do give it a chance, what can we do to engender more healing? So let's get into this. The first thing is, and this is what Dr. Gregg was talking about, if you give it a chance, is stop hurting your liver. So stop feeding your liver things that it has to work extra hard or be damaged in processing. This could be medications or drugs that you don't need to take, big category. Things like alcohol, obviously most people know alcohol's kind of hard on the liver, but it could also include things that are just plain old hard to process or chemically burdensome that we don't need. And that could be things like high fructose corn syrup, great difficult for the liver to process. Food colorings, preservatives, and other additives, very important. If you take those out, you're going to have less stress on your liver. So something to keep in mind there. And then obviously poisons, herbicides, pesticides, all of that. If you can get your diet, so food and drink, as clean as you possibly can, you are going to automatically decrease the stress on the liver and it will go into its own Regenerative processes. Now, the liver literally is made to heal. Other organs, not so much. But the liver, if you're damaging it, can actually grow more liver cells. I have seen people who had some challenges, maybe with substances or whatever, where their liver literally increased in size. And so instead of kind of just coming out a little bit below the rib cage on the right-hand side, it actually went way down. And that happens because The liver's trying to keep up with all the stress you're putting in. So imagine if you just removed as much junk and toxin out of your diet intake, how much it would be helpful. What would be a general guideline, if you will, as far as eating things that would generally give you the kind of things that would be helpful for your liver? Plants. Plants have a lot of polyphenolic compounds, the things that make the plant colorful, appealing to the eye, et cetera. Plants have a lot of natural nutrients, minerals, and vitamins, flavonoids, other compounds like that. So plants can be very useful. Now, some people will, you know, do vegetable juicing, for example, that can be really useful. They'll do mixed juices, just adding more plants into your diet. Now, you might also say, well, what in my diet could I not maybe remove, but clean up and do a little bit better so I'm not stressing my liver. Well, big sources of toxin like pesticide, herbicide, that sort of thing, not only come from preserved foods, you know, that sort of junk, but also from your standard mass-produced, you know, North American sort of big agriculture-produced food where they use a lot of herbicide and pesticide. So you can never get totally clean food no matter where you get it, even if you grow it yourself, because the air has toxins and the water has toxins and stuff, but you can get cleaner food. So if you're not growing your own food, that's fine. You can go and you can get organic foods that are going to have a lower amount of toxic load, and that can be extremely helpful to you as you go along.
Now, if you had to prioritize plants and you were going to get some organic plants, which ones would be like really, really liver-focused? Well, beets and also Beet tops, beet greens, and what else is like beet tops or beet greens? Other greens like collards and things of that nature are going to have a lot of not only vitamins, minerals, but also things like methionine and other things that are very helpful to the liver processing things, helping to detoxify. Other dark greens, asparagus, and then anything that's a brilliant color. So dark blues, reds, yellows, you know, all the things that nature might be trying to call your attention to. Largely vegetables, some fruit, berries come in here, et cetera. The next thing would be watch for sneaky sources of stored chemical toxins and fats. So fats in either plant, but especially animals are storage places for toxic chemicals. So again, just like plants, you can't get any animals that are totally clean of all chemicals and, you know, everything, because we live in a very toxic world. But if you get maybe locally sourced You know, whatever it is you eat, certain types of line-caught fish, you can look a lot of this up online. The lower the amount of added toxic material you're putting into your body and coming in through the fat in the plant and especially animal food, the lower toxin and the less stress on your liver. So if you're going to eat, for example, poultry as a protein source, it's going to have some fat with it. Get the cleanest version of that that you possibly can.
Also watch for sneaky sort of added things again in non-organic or homegrown, you know, produce of any kind, but also in the farmed type foods, especially farmed fish. If you have the choice of eating 4 or 5 ounces of any particular fish, but we'll pick on salmon for a moment and you look and it's Atlantic salmon, those are generally farmed salmon, and they're going to be very highly concentrated with all manner of toxic materials. If you go and you get some, you know, West Coast of North America line-caught salmon and you have 5 ounces of that, it's not going to be completely free of toxic material, but it's going to be a lot lower. And the toxin game is about what you eat every day over a long period of time. So reduce where you can. The more that you do, the more your liver is going to heal and you You can actually improve liver function by doing all of these things, and you can show it on your labs if you give it enough time and enough effort. All right, thank you very much for listening. Those are great questions. Love to hear questions, comments, etc. Please do subscribe if you haven't. Like, share, do all the stuff. I'll see you guys on the next video, and check these other videos we'll post out here.
