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Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And as you were mentioning, we're seeing this huge rise in fatty liver, not only because of alcohol, but because of how high blood sugar, high levels of insulin, toxins like glyphosate and all the other toxins you mentioned. medications that people are taking all are putting stress on our liver and making it so then our liver can't do what it needs to do to detoxify.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And as you were mentioning, we're seeing this huge rise in fatty liver, not only because of alcohol, but because of how high blood sugar, high levels of insulin, toxins like glyphosate and all the other toxins you mentioned. medications that people are taking all are putting stress on our liver and making it so then our liver can't do what it needs to do to detoxify.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

So it becomes this vicious cycle of we're inundated with toxins that are impacting our liver, but then the liver can't work as well. And so then we can't get rid of the toxins that we're inundated with. So it becomes a vicious cycle of having issues with our detoxification system in our body.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

So it becomes this vicious cycle of we're inundated with toxins that are impacting our liver, but then the liver can't work as well. And so then we can't get rid of the toxins that we're inundated with. So it becomes a vicious cycle of having issues with our detoxification system in our body.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

So it becomes this vicious cycle of we're inundated with toxins that are impacting our liver, but then the liver can't work as well. And so then we can't get rid of the toxins that we're inundated with. So it becomes a vicious cycle of having issues with our detoxification system in our body.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And as we've spoken about before, the liver is such a critical organ within the body's natural ability to detoxify and handle all the toxins we're exposed to. Maybe we weren't put together to handle all of these toxins, unfortunately, that we're exposed to, but we do have this ability to handle toxins and we wanna take care of our body so we can handle the toxins that we are exposed to.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And as we've spoken about before, the liver is such a critical organ within the body's natural ability to detoxify and handle all the toxins we're exposed to. Maybe we weren't put together to handle all of these toxins, unfortunately, that we're exposed to, but we do have this ability to handle toxins and we wanna take care of our body so we can handle the toxins that we are exposed to.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And as we've spoken about before, the liver is such a critical organ within the body's natural ability to detoxify and handle all the toxins we're exposed to. Maybe we weren't put together to handle all of these toxins, unfortunately, that we're exposed to, but we do have this ability to handle toxins and we wanna take care of our body so we can handle the toxins that we are exposed to.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And so it's really important that we take care of our liver. And so what's considered normal for alcohol intake? For men, it's less than 10 drinks And for women, it's less than five drinks a week. And so we know that problems with the liver can occur when we're drinking too much.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And so it's really important that we take care of our liver. And so what's considered normal for alcohol intake? For men, it's less than 10 drinks And for women, it's less than five drinks a week. And so we know that problems with the liver can occur when we're drinking too much.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

And so it's really important that we take care of our liver. And so what's considered normal for alcohol intake? For men, it's less than 10 drinks And for women, it's less than five drinks a week. And so we know that problems with the liver can occur when we're drinking too much.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

So we see problems when people are binge drinking or consuming more than 14 drinks a week for men or more than seven drinks a week for women. So I think it's important we also talk to our patients about what is moderation with alcohol? How do we take care of our liver, both from all aspects of nutrition and lifestyle?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

So we see problems when people are binge drinking or consuming more than 14 drinks a week for men or more than seven drinks a week for women. So I think it's important we also talk to our patients about what is moderation with alcohol? How do we take care of our liver, both from all aspects of nutrition and lifestyle?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

So we see problems when people are binge drinking or consuming more than 14 drinks a week for men or more than seven drinks a week for women. So I think it's important we also talk to our patients about what is moderation with alcohol? How do we take care of our liver, both from all aspects of nutrition and lifestyle?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

You know, one of the first ways we find out is with general blood work. So if you do a metabolic panel, comprehensive metabolic, a panel on a patient, and we look at these markers like the AST and the ALT, and if they're elevated, either high end of normal or elevated above the normal range, you know, that's something we really have to be thinking about is, is this fatty liver?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

You know, one of the first ways we find out is with general blood work. So if you do a metabolic panel, comprehensive metabolic, a panel on a patient, and we look at these markers like the AST and the ALT, and if they're elevated, either high end of normal or elevated above the normal range, you know, that's something we really have to be thinking about is, is this fatty liver?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

You know, one of the first ways we find out is with general blood work. So if you do a metabolic panel, comprehensive metabolic, a panel on a patient, and we look at these markers like the AST and the ALT, and if they're elevated, either high end of normal or elevated above the normal range, you know, that's something we really have to be thinking about is, is this fatty liver?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

Should we go on and do an ultrasound? of the liver to see if we are seeing some fat deposition in the liver. And so that's one of the ways we start to see it most frequently with our patients.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

Should we go on and do an ultrasound? of the liver to see if we are seeing some fat deposition in the liver. And so that's one of the ways we start to see it most frequently with our patients.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It

Should we go on and do an ultrasound? of the liver to see if we are seeing some fat deposition in the liver. And so that's one of the ways we start to see it most frequently with our patients.