The liver is the major organ for detoxification. It detoxifies, by metabolizing toxins and/or secreting the toxins out of the body. A damaged fatty liver cannot work to do its job.
A fatty liver happens when too much fat builds up in your liver. Although it is normal to have a tiny amount of fat in these cells, the liver is considered fatty if more than 5% of it is fat. 80-100 million are thought to be affected by a fatty liver in the US.
Remember, your liver is the second largest organ in your body. It helps process nutrients from food and beverages and filters harmful substances from your blood. Too much fat in your liver can cause inflammation and create scarring, and in severe cases, this can lead to liver failure.
There are two types of fatty livers:
When most people think of liver damage they think of alcoholic fatty liver. However, there is also a non-alcoholic fatty liver. The liver can be damaged over the years in many ways - smoking, sugar-laden sodas, fried foods, processed foods, drugs, alcohol and environmental toxins.
These all tax the liver, but sugary, fried, and processed foods give the body a real problem. The excess sugar and fat cannot be utilized by the body and so is stored as fat in the body, and particularly in the liver. It is now referred to as metabolic-dysfunction associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) – a more accurate description.
The result is a compromised liver, and the toxins that are normally filtered out can re-circulate through the body re-exposing it to harmful compounds and can trigger a toxic overload.
A Fatty liver is not just a standalone condition. Failure to address a fatty liver can result in severe health issues. Fat can leave the liver and get deposited in other organs. Your organ function could decrease over time due to this build-up, leading to increased inflammation within these areas.
Inflammation triggers an immune response, further exacerbating damage by promoting fibrosis (scarring) - a precursor to more severe conditions like cirrhosis. This liver condition may have significant implications for health. It has even been connected to post pandemic's continuing symptoms.
This phenomenon underscores how interconnected our bodily systems truly are and why maintaining optimal hepatic health should be everyone's priority.
You might wonder now: How do I know if I have a metabolic liver dysfunction?
Some symptoms are:
- Stubborn weight gain
- Fatigue
- Skin that itches
- Feeling confused (toxin buildup)
- Swelling or pain in the upper belly
You can address a fatty liver by changing your diet. You can also address it with supplements that can help to naturally improve a fatty liver and thus overall health.
What supplement has what you need to address a Fatty Liver?
There are special natural ingredients that help to support liver health. It can be helpful to consume all these ingredients in one supplement. They all work together.
Due to the quality of food today, most people are deficient in the vitamins and minerals needed by the liver for optimal health.
PureLife Care+ is a natural supplement that works at the cellular level to improve metabolism, reduce insulin resistance, inflammation and to help a fatty liver.
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Protecting Your Brain
Hey, It’s Dr. Martin here…
I've said this many times, but it's worth repeating what we do in our 40s, 50s, and 60s shapes the health of our brains in our 70s and 80s.
If you're in your 70s or 80s there's no time to waste in protecting your brain health.
Research shows that inflammation, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high insulin levels, or obesity during midlife can put your brain at serious risk of dementia or Alzheimer's later on.
Shockingly, less than 9% of people are metabolically healthy that means less than 9% have normal weight, blood pressure, triglycerides, or sugar levels. Doctors often call Alzheimer's or dementia 'Type-3 Diabetes'—you can see why so many are at risk of serious brain problems as they age.
Did you know that your brain has its own force field? It's called the blood-brain barrier (BBB).
The blood-brain barrier is like a protective shield; it filters what gets to your brain. It lets in good stuff like oxygen and nutrients and keeps out toxins and pathogens.
But here's the shocking part scientists have found that your blood-brain barrier can leak! You've heard me say it before "Leaky Gut — Leaky Brain."
The same issues causing Leaky Gut Syndrome, like an unhealthy microbiome (too many bad bacteria, not enough good ones) can also make your blood-brain barrier leak.
Read also: Improving Metabolism - Understanding Metabolism
Damaged Cell Receptors and Diabetes
Doctors will prescribe medications for diabetes because they are merely handling a symptom and not the cause.
Certain medications increase insulin secretion while others try to get the body to use its own insulin more effectively. Insulin injections are just that, more insulin. Medical doctors usually prescribe the oral medications first and when those are no longer effective or maxed out they then proceed onto prescribing insulin injections.
There can be a lot of insulin in the body, but if the body is insulin resistant because of damaged cell receptors that don’t allow the insulin to do the job it needs to. The doctor’s medications introduce more insulin to force the sugar into the now damaged cell receptors. Your body just ends up building up more and more insulin resistance/tolerance so that the level of oral medications or injections only go up and up.
High sugar levels are only a symptom of the diabetic condition; they are not the diabetic condition itself.
Using drugs to keep the blood sugar down is like having a fire burning in the living room and turning on the exhaust fan in the kitchen to pull the smoke out of the house. The fan pulls out the smoke (a symptom of the fire) but the fire is still burning, and will consume the house unless it is handled.
In the same way, the diabetic condition continues to get worse, until it (not just a symptom) is addressed and handled. You can see the progression in many cases, where the amount of medication needed to control blood sugar levels continues to increase, because the condition has not yet been handled.
What needs to happen is the body needs to resensitize the cells to the insulin your body is making and as a result will lower your blood sugar levels naturally.
Diet needs to be used to give the body a rest so that it isn’t dealing with the high amounts of sugar coming in. A low carbohydrate diet 20-30 carbohydrate a day is recommended until the cells repair themselves. After all carbohydrates are just long chains of sugar molecules.
For more information go to Diabetes Undertanding the Condition
Diabetic Ulcers - An effective natural solution
About 10 percent of diabetics have open sores that are very hard to heal, often lasting for years in that unhealed state. This causes great discomfort and high risk of infection.
Now a very simple and completely natural remedy can rapidly heal these wounds. The studies showed the below.
Studies conducted in 1991 by a medical research team compared a conventional method of burn treatment commonly used to treat burns, pressure ulcers and leg ulcers, with a topical application of honey applied to the surface of the wound. Burn patients were divided into two groups.
The burns of patients in one group were cleaned with saline solution and pure, undiluted, unprocessed honey was applied daily. Burns of the other group were cleaned and covered with gauze that was soaked in a medicated dressing (5% silver sulfadiazine) that was changed daily.
Results showed that within seven days 91 percent of the infected wounds treated with honey were free of infection, compared to less than 7 percent of the burns treated with the medicated dressing. Within 15 days, 87 percent of the honey treated wounds were healed; whereas only 10 percent of the other group wounds were healed. Patients treated with honey experienced less irritation, more relief of pain, and no allergic reactions or side effects.
Studies done by an earlier medical research team in 1988 showed that various types of wounds and skin ulcers which had not previously responded to conventional methods of treatment such as antibiotics and medicated dressings responded favorably to a topical honey treatment.
Wounds and ulcer types treated with honey included: gangrene of the skin, burn wounds, topical ulcers, bedsores, and diabetic ulcers. After the wounds were cleaned with saline, honey and clean bandages were applied daily. Infected wounds that had not responded to conventional treatments were free of infection within 7 days of the first honey application.
Following treatment with honey, dead tissue was quickly replaced with healthy tissue. In some cases, diabetic ulcers were successfully treated with honey and skin grafts, thus preventing amputation. Apparently, the antibacterial properties of honey allow it to work on wounds and skin ulcers in the same manner it works on burns.
* The honey used must be raw unprocessed honey and it must state somewhere on the label that it is "unheated".
