This video, titled "Fatty Liver Reser" by Deb Ford DCN RDN, explains how to reverse fatty liver disease, a common metabolic problem. The speaker highlights that the liver is a crucial organ that can regenerate and remove toxins. She emphasizes that fatty liver is often caused by overeating, especially carbohydrates, and that metabolic health is key to overall well-being. The video provides several actionable steps, including intermittent fasting, regular exercise, drinking water before meals, and reducing sugar and refined carbohydrates.
Key Takeaways
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Over 93% of Americans are metabolically sick at a cellular level, highlighting a widespread health issue.
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The liver is a vital organ that can rebuild itself and is responsible for cleaning blood, making bile, and removing toxins from the body.
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Fatty liver, once primarily linked to alcohol abuse, is now largely caused by overeating and high carbohydrate diets, leading to the liver storing excess fat.
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Excess abdominal (visceral) fat creates inflammatory compounds like cytokines, contributing to chronic low-grade inflammation.
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Intermittent fasting, starting with 13 hours overnight, helps the body switch from fat storage to fat burning, targeting visceral fat and improving fatty liver index scores.
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Intermittent fasting offers numerous benefits beyond weight loss, including improved mental clarity, heart health, gut flora diversity, and increased human growth hormone (HGH) levels.
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Autophagy, a process of cell cleaning and renewal, is activated by fasting and can slow aging, reduce inflammation, and enhance HGH.
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Other key strategies to reverse fatty liver include exercising for 30 minutes daily, drinking cold water before meals, cutting down on calories (especially refined carbs and sugar), and eating smaller servings of starches.
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Supplements like milk thistle, berberine, omega-3, curcumin, N-acetylcysteine, alpha-lipoic acid, multivitamins, probiotics, and resveratrol are suggested for supporting liver health.
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good morning and welcome to another
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us lose weight feel great or live longer
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better all three yes and getting
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metabolically healthy we know that over
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93% of Americans are metabolically sick
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at a cellular level I want you to be
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super well so you can live long and well
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my personal goal is to live to be 100
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know I'm there and glad I'm there but
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you know I'm thinking I might want to
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revamp that because with all the
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research and the advances that we're
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making and understanding what's going on
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deep inside when we live according to
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certain Health guidelines heck I'm
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upgrading my 100-year goal and who knows
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the limit but for the most important
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thing is to have life in those years
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live well every day invest in great
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health the real health savings account
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by doing what we need to be doing to
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keep our body thriving not just
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surviving and propped up with drugs and
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countless surgeries right you know I was
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a mess a metabolic mess before I figured
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out what I was doing wrong and changed
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it by the time I was 17 I had had seven
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organ
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removed and in my view today none were
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necessary if I'd only known what I
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started to implement a few years later
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when my OBGYN recommended a total
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hysterctomy boy did I change things and
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you know within weeks everything changed
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and I was totally healthy and didn't
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need surgery so you see I know what's
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possible when you live according to what
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makes the body Thrive and it's pretty
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simple as I outlined in my book get out
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of hormone heal six Heavenly steps to
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lose weight feel great and reverse aging
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now at almost 69 I am healthier and more
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fit than when I was 17 and I think you
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can be too if you want to and invest in
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it and the biggest way to invest in your
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health is to be metabolically healthy so
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today's
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topic is really going to be more on the
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liver how to reverse fatty liver fast
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this condition is an epidemic in
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metabolic disaster today now even though
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I am a licensed and registered dietitian
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and have an accredited Master's and
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doctorate degree in clinical Nutrition
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Fitness degree and almost 50 years of
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experience I'm not a new kid on the
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Block but this is serious and this
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information is for Education only and if
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you have a medical condition seek
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medical advice but I'm going to give you
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some valuable research and information
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that can be lifechanging because we need
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to be metabolically well and that starts
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with the
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liver it's arguably the most important
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organ we have it weighs only about 3 lb
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rest right underneath your right ribs I
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mean if you got your ribs right there
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tuck your fingers right under those
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right ribs that's where it is right by
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your gallbladder and most important
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thing the liver can rebuild itself you
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can cut away 2/3 of the liver and it can
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regrow over time what a
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gift every drop of blood goes through
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the liver and it makes protein to clean
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the blood it makes protein to clot your
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blood
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it makes bile to break down fatty food
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lubricate the intestines and of super
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importance to remove toxins toxins made
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from your own metabolism but also from
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medicines from alcohol and from all the
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increasing toxins that we have
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introduced since the
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1940s we have to keep it clean and clear
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because when that liver gets clogged it
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can not clear the toxins that can kill
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us so what clogs the liver notably
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fat fatty liver is epidemic today and
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fatty liver is not just I mean it used
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to be just caused from alcohol abuse but
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not anymore it's coming from our food we
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are abusing our food which abuses our
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liver fatty liver leads to curosis of
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the liver fibers forming and scarring
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the liver replacing good active cells
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with scar tissue fatty liver is most
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commonly caused from
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overeating and and here's kind of how it
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works when you eat the fuel the food
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gets taken care of in three ways either
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it's used for energy right then and
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there or it's put into the muscle for
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later use or it's stored in fat cells a
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lot of the excess store is stored in the
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liver especially if the diet is high in
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carbohydrates if you overeat a lot the
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liver and the tissue around the liver
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starts storing more and more more
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abdominal fat visceral fat that's a
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really bad kind that belly fat makes
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inflammatory comp compounds particularly
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cyto kindes remember that word you might
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remember that when covid was really
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raging we heard a lot about that cyto
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kind storm that the virus called well if
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you got belly fat you've got a smaller
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cyto kind storm going on all the time
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and that's why people who were
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metabolically sick were most at risk for
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hospitalization and death with the co
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virus or just about any disease really
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the big key is Optimal Health and
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metabolic Health they go together one
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you can't have one without the other we
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are designed perfectly we are really
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designed to clear out all that fat at
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night if we give it enough time when the
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stomach is empty the body switches gears
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from fat storage to fat burning and you
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got to give it enough time the real key
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is keeping the liver clear by fasting
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overnight by switching from that fat
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storing to the fat burning and
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beautifully it targets the visceral fat
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or the abdominal fat first you know I
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love Dr William Lee hared oncologist and
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immunologist and now the author or one
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of my favorite books eat to beat disease
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and the famous Ted Talk eat to starve
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cancer well he's got five
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recommendations I'm going to kind of
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build on and these are ones that are
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really designed to clear fat out of the
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liver number one thing first thing
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intermittent fasting which really it's
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just reducing the hours you eat and
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increasing the hours you don't
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recommended to start with about 13 hours
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overnight of not eating and that just
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increases fat burning your body shifts
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to detoxifying and burning fat from all
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those stores you know and it's best to
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extend the time on both ends of the
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night 3 hours before
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bedtime and then you sleep 8 hours and
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then wait 3 hours after you wake up
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before you eat so basically it can be
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like you skip breakfast you sleep 8
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hours then you wait out eight hours you
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know it's it's just skipping breakfast
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intermittent fasting isn't really
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fasting as I think of fasting it's just
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you know kind of an eating pattern not a
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special diet you can be on any diet and
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do intermittent fasting you know even
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the standard American diet that I never
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ever recommend but it's just about the
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cycle of eating and fasting you know and
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it's not uncomfortable you know you
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could just have an early dinner and then
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skip breakfast or just have breakfast
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later in the journal of clinical liver
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disease Harvard researchers doctors
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Corey and Mel found that in just days
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the body starts to recover I would say
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within hours you can metabolically tell
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with certain tests but in this study it
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found that in a week of intermittent
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fasting their fatty liver index score
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improved suggest and went on to suggest
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that intermittent fasting in patients
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with fatty liver safe help with weight
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loss insulin resistance and metabolic Sy
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syndrome since today we consume
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25% more calories than we did in
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1970 you know obesity wasn't even much
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of a thing you know less than 133% of
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the population was obese now it's like
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over
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40% worse in the good old Midwest where
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we have a greater ratio of fat food I
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should say fast food restaurants to the
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population so like confucious says Harry
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Hai Buu or don't wait don't eat until
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you're full just 34 full okay so I'm
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going to give you you know 20 plus
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things of physical benefits of fasting
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real quick number one in the brain it
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improves mental Clarity and
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concentration gears up neuronal
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plasticity helps make brain connections
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increases bdnf that I'll talk about
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later for the heart improves heart rate
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variability reduces the stress on the
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heart number three helps with weight and
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body fat loss by
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normalizing how certain hormones
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regulate appetite it's going to be
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working on increasing the sensitivity of
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both leptin and grin basically putting
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the brakes on Hunger number four
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decreases weight in a study a systematic
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review review of over 40 studies found
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that intermittent fasting was great for
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weight loss typically 7 to 11 pounds
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over 10 weeks no change in diet you eat
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the same food lost weight just by Skip
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skipping breakfast speeds up metabolism
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burn fat stores while preserving muscle
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mass lowers blood insulin lowers blood
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sugar improves insulin sensitivity so
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it's great for diabetics women with PCOS
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and of course fatty liver heart disease
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and those skin tags those skin tags
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they're a huge sign of metabolic
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syndrome reverses type 2 diabetes
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increases energy increases fat burning
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number 12 and one of the most phenomenal
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side effects it's been observed to
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improve radically improve the diversity
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of gut flora and when you support the
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body's healthy Flora you may be doing
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one of the most important things to
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improve your immune system number 13
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helps prevent Alzheimer's
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disease possibly since insulin
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resistance is strongly associated with
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dementia there was an MIT study that
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found 24-hour fasting improved stem cell
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regeneration and promoted growth of new
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brain cells which help the body adapt to
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stimuli number 14 that bdnf going to go
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a little deeper here bdnf is brain
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derived neurotrophic Factor commonly
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referred to as that Miracle Grow
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fertilizer for the brain boost levels
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from 50 to
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400% activating growth of neurons
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triggers those other chemicals that
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promote neuronal Health you know helping
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to reduce the potential for Alzheimer's
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and Parkinson's or just age related
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cognitive decline number 15 longer life
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potential at least in animal studies
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because we can't really ethically
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perform it on humans I mean I think you
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can but they won't let you
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physiologically caloric restruction
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restriction has been shown to increase
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in animals lifespan up to
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30% okay almost a third longer they
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lived and improved tolerance to various
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stresses
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anti-aging Bring it on I mean when
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animal studies show that it can improve
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longevity by as much as 30% sign me up
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and if you're like me I want to live a
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long time really good okay now I'm going
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to get a little geeky number 16 it
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increases cert one cert one is basically
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just a protein that regulates cell
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inflammation aging and possibly
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autoimmunity so when fasting increases
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CT one it's reducing a lot of those
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things that can cause disease 17 reduces
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inflammation reduces free radical damage
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May reduce the risk for
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cancer wow number 18
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triglycerides drop like a lead
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bomb dropped body fat dropped visceral
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fat dropped blood pressure cholesterol
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LDL and
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triglycerides Studies have shown
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compelling links between fasting and
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reduced risk of heart disease you know
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one was studied uh it was it was a
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combination of a lot of studies that
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went came out in June of 2020 found that
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those who fasted had nearly a 58% lower
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risk of coronary disease versus those
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that never fasted you know it's
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interesting Mormons 90% of the Mormons
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in this study uh people were Mormons in
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the study and they are encouraged to
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fast one whole day a month one day a
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month reduces the risk of heart disease
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wow number 19 and I would say most
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importantly it
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activates
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autophagy okay
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autophagy gosh it's it's just cell
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cleaning out it was a discovery made and
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given the Nobel Prize in 2016 it's big a
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phagy is basically how the body clears
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out the old damaged cells and makes room
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for new fresh cells kind of like pruning
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a bush when you prune your rose bush
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properly the bush comes back stronger
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and better autophagy slows aging reduces
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inflammation and
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enhances
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HGH human growth hormone remarkably
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improves HGH
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1,300% in women and an incredible 200%
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in men HGH is referred to as the fitness
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hormone the youth hormone the anti-aging
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hormone it promotes muscle growth boost
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fat loss revs up the metabolism wower I
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mean can you see I'm excited about
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intermittent fasting heal and it's so
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good for reversing fatty liver I am a
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fan okay now quick there four other
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things that Dr Lee recommend you do
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start exercising take it seriously 30
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minutes a day be brisk get
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moving next thing um and this is a trick
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I tell all my clients drink a big glass
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of cold water before each meal burns fat
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revs the metabolism keeps your feeling
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full studies show you can lose at least
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10 pounds by just drinking more water
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and the next two are big tips cut down
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on calories espe especially carbs bread
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Bagels muffins cakes cookies and even
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eat smaller servings of beans and
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starches replace them with a lot of
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vegetables and berries they are
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powerhouses for phytonutrients and fiber
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I mean your taste buds are going to take
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a little time to adjust but those taste
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buds can lead you down the wrong path
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every time lastly most importantly cut
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out sugar you know sweeten Foods pop ice
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cream candies cakes double danger cook
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sugar and carbs canaca has nine
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teaspoons of sugar you know you do these
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five points and you have eliminated the
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cause of fatty liver okay now quick
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there are some supplements that have
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been well researched but for the sake of
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time I'm just going to give you the list
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if you'd love to work with me to
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personalize the approach I would love to
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milk thistle berberine omega-3 curcumin
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and acetylcysteine alphal lipoic acid my
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favorite multivitamin o NE uh probiotic
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Spectrum or acromania and the supplement
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Resveratrol I know only carry the best
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would like to work with me I would love
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to work with you to help reverse your
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health or weight conditions my new Maha
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or make America healthy again challenge
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is starting in January but you and I can
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start anytime have a great day and I'll
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see you soon
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Fatty Liver Reser
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Nov 16, 2024
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The liver is arguably the most important organ we have. It only weighs about 3# under rests your right ribs. And the most amazing thing--- The liver can rebuild itself. If you cut away 2/3 and it can regrow over time. What a gift that is easy to reset