Hi. Dr. Minkoff here.
I want to address the liver today
because I think it's a neglected organ for a lot of medical practitioners
and even health care practitioners.
So, your liver sits right here.
The diaphragm ends right at the top of the ribcage
and then below the diaphragm is the liver.
It's a great big organ, probably weighs 3 or 4 pounds,
has 2 lobes and it has over 500 functions.
It makes proteins.
It detoxifies.
It handles blood sugar.
It has immune functions.
So, it's really complicated.
You can't live without one.
Nowadays, if you wreck your liver,
there's a chance you could get one transplanted,
which is kind of a miracle of modern medicine,
but it's better on the front end to just take care of it yourself,
so that you don't have trouble with it.
Now, the signs of liver disease can be many
but one of the first places where you might see it is in the skin.
People who get rosacea, or they get liver spots,
or they get little, what are called telangiectasias.
They're little dilated blood vessels all over the skin.
Can often have liver disease.
Sometimes an expanded belly.
Sometimes people who have high levels
of allergies to external things.
The liver has a lot to do with histamine and handling histamine,
and if the histamine levels get too high,
you become very sensitive,
and you can show allergies because of the high histamines.
People with liver disease can be fatigued.
They can have malodorous bodies.
Their sweat smells.
Their breath can smell.
Their skin seems to smell.
They're unable to detoxify effectively.
Acne can be a sign.
Hormonal imbalance can be a sign.
Sometimes we'll see women who are menopausal,
they're having trouble with their hormones,
and we actually handle their liver,
through handling their gut.
Their hormonal problems go down
because now their liver can actually detoxify
and handle their hormones in a good way.
The liver is actually immediately
downstream from the intestine.
So, there is a specialized blood supply,
from the intestine, that goes directly to the liver.
It doesn't go back into the regular circulation first.
It's called the portal circulation.
It goes to the liver.
So, if there are things that have to be handled
from absorption in the gut,
they can get handled by the liver
before they go back into the regular circulation.
If there is a high toxin load coming from the person's diet
or they have toxic bacteria,
or parasites,
or funguses in their gut,
that load goes to their liver.
And if their liver is overburdened with dealing with that stuff,
it may not have free attention
or free chemical means to handle other stuff
if the person is otherwise poisoned.
So, in many cases handling the liver,
we also have to handle the thing that's coming before that,
which is their intestine.
Some people have pain over the liver.
That could be a sign too.
Some people have gallbladder problems.
The liver empties one of its products called bile
into another gland called the gall bladder,
which is tucked in right underneath the liver, right underneath the ribcage here,
and the gallbladder stores bile,
and bile, when you eat, is used to turn fats
from fat soluble into water-soluble.
If you tried to, if you had some coconut oil,
or some butter,
and that butter got into your bloodstream straight,
it wouldn't work out very well
because it would layer out.
It's like trying to mix vinegar and olive oil.
It's not emulsified.
It can't separate.
So, bile actually turns fats into water soluble substances,
so that they can be carried in the bloodstream
to the rest of the cells.
So, gall bladder is very important.
The gall bladder also,
the bile, is used to detoxify things coming from the liver.
So, the liver detoxifies a chemical,
or a poison,
or a drug,
and then it's shunted into the bile.
It's put into the intestine
and that's one of the ways that liver can get rid of it.
So, these are all really important functions
and taking care of your liver is really important.
I think the first thing on the list
is removing toxins.
So, if toxins are coming into your body
through what you eat or what you put on your body,
Hair products,
skin products,
makeup products,
or what you smell.
You're in a polluted area where there is a lot of exhaust fumes,
or there are chemicals,
or pesticides,
then the level of that coming into your body,
is going to directly affect your liver
and many of these things are actually toxic to liver cells.
Alcohol is toxic to liver cells.
So, I will see a lab report from a person
and their liver, their liver enzymes, are elevated
showing that there's been liver cell injury.
And I ask them,
"Well, did you drink the night before that you did this?"
and they'll say, "Yeah, I had a couple of drinks."
Well, that alcohol actually is poisonous to liver cells
and it harms them.
So, reducing your toxic load
is really important if you're gonna heal your liver.
Okay?
The second one is,
we can actively do things to help detoxify the liver.
Now, there's 3 herbs which are known to be helpful for livers.
First one is milk thistle.
Now, milk thistle is known to support liver cells
and if liver cells are injured
you could give milk thistle
and it will help to heal the liver cells.
It's an antioxidant herb.
And people need to take somewhere between
100 and 200 milligrams a day
in order to get a therapeutic effect.
Sometimes we dose people higher, but that's important.
Tumeric is helpful.
It's, again, an antioxidant.
It supports liver cells and liver metabolism.
So, this can be a beneficial aid
if you have liver disease or you have a problem liver.
Dandelion root is also extremely helpful.
It helps actually for toxins to get moved out of the liver.
It's kind of what we call a drainage remedy.
If you eat dandelion root, or you boil dandelion greens,
or you take a capsule that's got dandelion in it,
it will help to remove liver toxins.
So, those are the big three
and those are easily found in many products.
Multivitamins and such with liver detox support
can have these 3 things.
The other 2 things which can be helpful
are alpha lipoic acid,
because it is an antioxidant and a detoxicant,
and the third one is an N-acetylcysteine.
N-acetylcysteine is a precursor to glutathione,
which is the main antioxidant in the body,
and the main detoxicant in the body.
And so people with liver disease,
if we add these in,
we can kind of support their liver and help it to heal.
We have had patients in the clinic
where they've had severe liver toxicity.
They ate some mushrooms and they got really sick,
or they had a huge dose of alcohol,
or they took too much Tylenol and they really poisoned themselves,
and we can give alpha lipoic acid intravenously.
And it can really calm the liver down.
And there are reported cases of people who are near death,
with alpha lipoic acid given intravenously,
that it could save them.
It could bring back their liver cells.
So, these are options for physicians.
Now, I put down there eat liver as the third one
because since ancient times people have known
that if you eat the healthy gland, of the gland that you have that's bad,
or the organ that's bad,
it seems to give it things that it needs.
Now, everybody from Royal Lee, who started standard process,
to Weston Price,
these people suggested to eat liver.
Okay?
Even Gerson has people eating raw liver,
quarter pound raw liver in a blender every day,
for cancer patients,
because it supports the liver and you have to detoxify the liver.
Okay?
Some people do coffee enemas
because coffee enemas seem to help
with a liver dump.
So, you can detoxify the liver that way.
I didn't put it on there
because a lot of people aren't interested in doing something like that,
but in our sick patients,
we recommend it to them.
For cancer patients,
especially if they have pain,
or if they're very toxic,
the coffee enemas could be very, very helpful.
Okay.
Get some organic chicken livers and fry them up,
or make chopped liver out of it,
or buy desiccated liver in capsules,
but it's a helpful thing if you have liver disease.
It will help you.
Fourth thing, is eat liver cleansing foods.
Okay?
Brassica vegetables are really good.
Brussels sprouts.
Cabbage.
Kale.
These are good.
Fermented foods are good.
Apple cider vinegar.
Kimchi.
Sauerkraut.
These are helpful for liver
and I would eat those foods.
Now, there is an epidemic now of people who have fatty livers.
Okay?
They'll have liver pain.
They'll have elevation of liver enzymes on a blood test.
I do an ultrasound of the liver to see what is happening in there,
and the report comes back, "Fatty liver."
The liver is swollen.
It's laden with fat.
It pressures the liver.
It causes liver cell injury,
and in order to help that,
the person has to go on a low-carb diet.
We have to get their insulin levels down
because what's happening
is they're eating a lot of carbohydrates.
The insulin level is raised.
It's storing fats.
It stores the fat in the liver
and we have to reverse that process.
So, a low-carb diet,
a paleo type diet with low fruit,
or a ketogenic type diet is very helpful for that.
Last one is, sauna is helpful for detoxification.
So, if you sit in a sauna, you will sweat.
You will rid yourself of body toxins.
When you're sitting in the sauna,
get yourself a loofah type brush and brush your skin.
Okay?
Because skin is one of the organs that is associated with liver.
Liver is: skin and eyes.
So, if you brush your skin,
you can get the skin to exfoliate.
It will come off.
You get out of the thing
then you shower.
It helps to cleanse the liver.
While you're sitting in the sauna,
the liver meridian point that you can activate your liver with,
if this is my big toe,
and this is my first toe,
this point just back from here in the little group,
not on the hand, but on the foot,
is liver point #1.
And if you're sitting in the sauna,
or before you go to bed,
and you start to feel around at that point,
if that hurts,
your liver is probably under stress.
And if you just do some massage there
for 4 or 5 minutes,
after some days, you'll find it isn't any more tender.
It isn't mushy
It isn't sort of gritty.
That you send messages to your liver to help it detoxify.
So, in summary,
these are things you can do to help your liver.
The best thing in the first place is eat an organic diet.
Stay away from toxic things.
Take supplements to help yourself,
like dandelion,
tumeric,
milk thistle.
Many of these are present in some multivitamins.
And eat cleansing foods.
Have a low-carb diet.
And saunas good for everybody.
So, sit in the sauna.
Okay?
And that way you'll have your liver for a long time
and it will serve you well.
Hope this helps.
Hey guys.
I want to just add a couple things that are really important.
One is milk thistle,
dandelion,
alpha lipoic acid,
NAC,
these things are all in body health multi.
There's a whole section in there with actually a couple more things,
which have to do with liver support.
So, if you want an easy way to do it,
take 2 in the morning and 2 at night,
because it covers you on these.
The other product which is really important,
and I didn't mention in the original talk,
is that in order to detoxify the enzymes
that have to do with liver detoxification,
there are pathways in the liver.
There's two pathways in the liver
a phase 1 and a phase 2,
where things get detoxified,
are dependent on amino acids.
And many of the patients that we see
are deficient in amino acids.
Now, you get amino acids from dietary protein.
But a lot of people aren't converting
their dietary protein to amino acids,
to liver enzymes,
in order to detoxify their bodies.
And so, we found that if we add essential amino acids,
like Perfect Amino,
10 tablets once a day,
that we get a huge increase in the liver's ability to detoxify.
Because those amino acids go to the liver
and the liver uses amino acids in order to detoxify.
Now, if the liver sitting there and there's a toxin coming through
and the amino acids aren't there,
it gets detoxified slowly
or it doesn't get detoxified.
It hangs in the body.
If there's plenty of amino acids available right then,
then the liver detoxifies and does its job.
There's one more thing that I forgot to mention on this thing.
And that is, you can't have a good liver if you're constipated.
Remember I said that the bowel,
all the blood from the bowel goes to the liver first.
Now, if you have stool sitting in your colon more than 24 hours,
guess what's happening to the toxic waste.
It's going back in
and it's going back in and it's going right to your liver.
And if your liver is not already overloaded,
it's going to definitely be overloaded.
And I see people all the time in the clinic
where, "How often do you have a bowel movement?"
is a very typical question,
and they'll say, "Oh, every couple days."
"Once a week."
Okay?
And that's not okay.
If you're not having a bowel movement,
every day,
your liver is going to be toxic.
Now, you can have more than one a day,
but you have to have a bowel movement every day,
that is satisfying, like you are empty.
You feel empty.
You feel good because your bowel is empty,
and whatever it takes to have a bowel movement every day,
you do.
I had somebody in the clinic the other day.
She's constipated and she doesn't feel well
and she's got signs of liver back up.
She's achy.
She doesn't feel well.
She's got a foul odor to her body.
So, I said, "Well you should take this product called Perfect Calm."
It's a magnesium supplement.
And I told her originally, "You have to take enough so that you go every day."
She says, "Well, I took two scoops, but honestly,
"I haven't gone in three weeks."
And she was actually just at the emergency room
because she was in so much pain.
What did they give her?
They give her two full glasses of magnesium citrate.
Which is what's in Perfect Calm.
And they wouldn't let her go until she went.
And she went a little bit and then they sent her home.
Okay?
So, I said, "Look, you take this stuff all day long
"and you have to take enough of it
"so that you are going every day - no fail.
"And if we have to add something else to it,
"to make you go, you go."
And that's true for everyone.
Whatever it takes you got to go every day.
Okay?
No excuses.
It's not genetic.
It's not in your family, that your mom "only went every three days."
Baloney!
They're sick.
Okay?
So, we get it to go by hook or crook,
whatever it takes.
Atomic bomb.
Laxative.
Whatever it is, you got to go.
Okay?
Perfect Calm is a great product
and it works for people easily.
Plus, it's a magnesium supplement
and most people are low in magnesium.
So, you need it.
Okay?
So, just to recap,
we really have to have good stuff to detoxify the liver.
The body health multiple is good.
Perfect amino, because you need amino acids,
and then you've got to go every day.
Perfect Calm is a good way to do it.
But, those are the things that are required
in addition when I talked about for liver health.
Okay?
Great!
Hope this helps.
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