9 Strategies to Heal Fatty Liver Disease

The liver is the largest organ in the body. It is like the “Project Manager”, responsible for detox and filtering to keep the blood clean. Treat your liver with love, live a healthy lifestyle that supports and strengthens it, and give it some time to deeply clean out the large amounts of toxins we’re exposed to in our modern world. Then your liver can do what it is meant to do – help YOU stay vibrant, healthy, and strong!

Takeaway:

1. Fatty Liver Disease affects 25% of the Global Population. Fatty Liver leads to other comorbitities, chronic diseases like Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Obesity, Cancer, High blood pressure, and Heart disease.
2. Risk factors to Fatty Liver Disease include a diet of fast food, Diabetes, Obesity, and High Blood Pressure.
3. Refined Seed Oils Make Fatty Liver Disease Worse. Best oils are Grass-fed Butter, Ghee, Coconut,  Mustard, Palm oil, and Lard.
4. Fatty Liver is Linked to Choline Deficiency. Best sources of Choline are Beef, beef liver, Egg yolks Chicken breast, Fish, Shiitake mushrooms, Legumes (beans, peanuts) Milk, Yogurt, Cruciferous vegetables 
5. Recommended Supplements and Therapies for Liver Support
6. Avoid Sugar, Sweets and Refined Grains. Instead eat whole unprocessed vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Avoid the Silent Killers: Favorite Foods that convert to sugar in the body
7. Your Path to health: 9 Steps to avoid and heal NAFLD. Detox & dietary changes. 

1. FATTY LIVER affects 25% of the Global Population, leading to other comorbitities, chronic diseases like Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Obesity, Cancer, High blood pressure, and Heart disease.

• In the U.S., an estimated 30% of adults have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most common chronic liver disease.
• In people with obesity, up to 90% have NAFLD, as do up to 75% of those who are overweight and 50% of people with diabetes.
• Even 10% of U.S. children are suffering from NAFLD..
• The high rates of NAFLD are likely related to the increased intake of toxic industrially processed seed oils, high carb empty foods, and environmental pollutants like glyphosate and PFAS.
• Lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise play important roles in exacerbating, as well as reducing, risk of developing NAFLD.
• Fructose overload that causes Fatty liver disease can also lead to other ailments, such as Insulin resistance, Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Obesity, Cancer, High blood pressure, and Heart disease.

2. Risk factors for Fatty Liver Disease:

• High blood sugar, prediabetes or type 2 diabetes
• Metabolic syndrome
• High blood pressure – Hypertension
• Obesity
• Drinking sweet caffeinated beverages, coffee, tea, with sugar, and soft drinks
• Consumption of Refined Seed Oils or fried foods soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, rapeseed (canola), corn and safflower.
• Eating an unhealthy diet (foods that are processed or do not have many nutrients)
• Lack of Choline in Diet
• Low-Fiber diet (white rice, flour, noodles, fast food)
• High Sugar Foods (white rice, flour, noodles, fast food)
• Exposure to chemical toxins, pesticides, herbicides, glyphosate
• Exposure to some Drugs, Vaccines, and Pharmaceuticals, and their side effects.
• Lack of sunlight
• Lack of exercise

3. Refined Seed Oils Make Fatty Liver Disease worse. Avoid soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, rapeseed (canola), corn and safflower.

Eating seed oils high in the omega-6 PUFA linoleic acid (LA) contributes to low-grade inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis. Researchers in the journal Nutrients recently noted: “Studies suggest that omega-6 PUFA is related to chronic inflammatory diseases such as obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disease.”

The global high rates of NAFLD are probably related to the increased intake of toxic industrially refined seed oils, often called “vegetable oils.” Seed oils high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) include soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, rapeseed (canola), corn and safflower.

Eat Traditional Oils LOWEST in Linoleic acid. Best oils are Grass-fed Butter, Ghee, Coconut, Avocado, Mustard, Artisan Olive oil, Palm oil, and Lard. These are the oils of our great grandmothers, and in their time, illnesses like diabetes, liver cancer, and heart disease were rare.

AVOID Refined Vegetable Oils HIGH in Linoleic Acid: Avoid Corn, Soy, Refined, Canola, Margarine, Safflower, Grapeseed, Sunflower, Commercial Olive oil, Sesame, Rice Bran, and Peanut Oil.

In order to avoid LA, we need to avoid eating processed foods, fast foods and most restaurant foods and focus on real food instead. Fatty liver can also be driven by excess sugar when, you are consuming more than 35% of your calories as fat, especially seed oils.

4. Fatty Liver is Linked to Choline Deficiency

Choline, an essential nutrient, is also important for normal liver function and liver health, yet most American’s a sadly deficient in choline.

Food Sources of Choline
Choline is found in a variety of foods. The richest sources are meat, fish, poultry, dairy, and eggs. Beef, beef liver, Egg yolks Chicken breast, Fish, Shiitake mushrooms, Legumes (beans, peanuts) Milk, Yogurt, Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage) Sunflower seeds (Source: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/choline/)

“The disappearance of liver and egg yolks from the American diet that takes most of the blame for NAFLD.”
Chris Masterjohn, Ph.D. in Nutritional Science

In addition, a 2017 investigation published in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports made the definitive link between NAFLD and the consumption of GMO foods, especially those that have been sprayed with even the smallest amounts of the pesticide Roundup. Source:

5. Recommended Supplements And Therapies Liver Support

• Milk Thistle herb
• Epsom salt baths
• Castor oil packs
• Dandelion Root
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Turmeric
• Cinnamon
• Oregano
• Bhumi Amala (Phyllanthus niruri).

6. Avoid Sugar, Sweets and Refined Grains. Instead eat whole unprocessed vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Avoid the Silent Killers: Favorite Foods that convert to sugar in the body

7. Your Path to health: Nine Steps to Detox and Heal Fatty Liver

There are many case reports of people healing fatty liver disease. Many natural support strategies can support liver health.

1. Organic hi-fiber diet of non-inflammatory foods vegies and whole grains
2. Low-sugar, low-carb foods
3. Eliminate modern refined vegetable oils
4. Eat traditional oils low in Linoleic acid: Grass-fed Butter, Ghee, Coconut, Avocado, Mustard, Artisan Olive oil, Palm oil, and Lard. 
5. Walk outside under the sun every day, 1 hour if possible.
6. Eat High Choline foods: meat, fish, poultry, dairy, and eggs. Beef, beef liver, Egg yolks Chicken breast, Fish, Shiitake mushrooms, Legumes (beans, peanuts) Milk, Yogurt, Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage) Sunflower seeds.
7. Intermittent Fasting
8. Liver Supplements
9. Reduce Stress, Emotional healing, dealing with anger

Resouces:

• Dietary recommendations for patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4027841/
• Effectiveness of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11428178/
• Choline (Source: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/choline/)
• https://www.drberg.com/blog/can-fasting-reverse-a-fatty-liver
• Choline’s role in maintaining liver function: new evidence for epigenetic mechanisms, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3729018/
• 30% of Americans Have Fatty Liver Disease, https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/06/09/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease.aspx
• Dietary choline intake and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in U.S. adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017–2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-023-01336-1
• https://drjockers.com/fatty-liver/