Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It
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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.
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Fatty liver is when the liver cells, the cells in your liver are replaced with fat cells. So fatty liver just means that some of the cells in your liver have been replaced with fat cells. And so there's fat deposited within your liver. Why do we care? Because then that means your liver can't work as well because it doesn't have all those liver cells doing the job that the liver does, right? So the liver really helps our body detoxify, metabolize chemicals from the environment, metabolize our own hormones, metabolize and get rid of toxins. And so we definitely don't want to have an under-functioning liver, that's for sure. And this is the prevalence of fatty liver disease. is is is it is it is really really high and unfortunately it's increasing um but about 90 million people in the u.s have fatty liver disease and so that's uh it's and it's increasing in this country it's increasing worldwide the amount of fatty liver we are seeing so um
Liz, tell me more about, about a patient that we've had, because I think, you know, some of those patient stories are really helpful and instructive and give us a sense of how we think. Do things differently at the ultra Bono center and here in Massachusetts and Lennox and, and what you, what you found and what you were able to sort of help him with and how it, how it all worked.
Yeah. So. I had a 50 year old gentleman who came in to see me and he was told by his primary doctor that his liver function tests, his ALT and AST were mildly elevated. And so he came in because he was frustrated with his weight. He wanted to lose some weight. He was about 25 pounds overweight. And he just mentioned to me that his doctor had said his liver function tests were a little elevated and that they were gonna be rechecking them in a few months. And so, you know, we really got a good detailed history from him and we got a sense of what he was what his diet was like and and and, you know, what his what his alcohol consumption was like, because, you know, that's one of the first things, of course, we think about with, you know, fatty liver or.
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