7 Bad Habits That Ruins Your Liver

Avoid these 7 liver-damaging habits to prevent liver disease and a fatty liver. These habits destroy liver health!

let’s talk about the seven bad habits that can actually ruin and wreck your liver I have a lot of experience in this because I destroyed my liver with all the bad habits you can possibly imagine so let’s go to the first bad habit and this is over-the-counter medication now this goes beyond medication and I’m not telling you not to take your medication but all medication especially over-the-counter medication can really do some serious damage to your liver and at the top of the list we have Tylenol Tylenol is very unique in that it’s the number one cause of acute liver failure out of all these other medications so it’s something to be aware of and some people don’t realize that and they’re taking it routinely and it’s really bad if you’re on any over-the-counter medication or even medication in general you should be taking something to protect your liver and one thing that I recommend would be milk thistle it has very unique properties to add protection and increase regeneration of liver the other protector for the liver especially for Tylenol is something called na C but milk thistle will also work and also the question to ask is why am I on this medication in the first place well some of the other bad habits that we’re going to cover will probably solve the problem of being on this medication in the first place all right number two is a sedentary lifestyle and it’s kind of strange because like why would not exercising or being active harm your liver versus other things that you do or let’s say you’re drinking alcohol right you can that’s something that definitely destroys liver but if you’re sedentary your diet might not be that great okay so you’re eating a lot of maybe junk Foods or more calories and you’re probably not burning them off and so if we just look at the cells the input of fuel and then burning that fuel up if you’re inputting too much fuel and you’re not burning that off there’s a lot of damage that’s created at the cell level this is called oxidative stress you can just think about this as rust you can rusting out your body and exercise burns off a lot of that fuel that’s like buffering system for a lot of things like disease exercise greatly strengthens the immune system exercise increases more oxygen throughout the body exercise also directly reduces stress that builds up you can’t avoid stress so all day long you accumulate stress how you going to get that stress out of your body well exercise can do it create an a habit of regular exercise or physical work all right next one number three not really eating for health or nutrition now this can get you into trouble because the primary ingredient that people eat for pleasure is seed oils vegetable oils which are really bad the combination of starch or sugar and Seed oils is basically the anatomy of what makes up junk food and the combination of sweet starch and Seed oils together it’s highly addictive it’s highly damaging but it can give us a sense of a decrease stress for a second well actually about 30 seconds until your blood sugars that were high start coming down and now we actually need more to create that same sensation so most people actually eat for some type of sensation it’s kind of a Mindless thing that we just do as a routine habit it has taken me years before I finally decided to create a new thing for myself where I’m now going to start eating for health and I really had to hit bottom and really feel terrible for many years before I changed I didn’t just switch overnight I literally had to be so sick and be in so much pain before I said that’s it and now all I have to do is think about what I would feel like if I ate this thing to get me to say no thank you so the Comfort foods that people like would be like fried chicken right deep fried in vegetable oils french fries with ketchup pastries Donuts you realize that one time I ate in one sitting 12 donuts I mean I I I can’t even imagine eating that now the heck was I thinking and then when you go to a fast food place you literally drink this sugar as hutus corn strip just think about what that does to your liver so all of these carbs combined with seed oils are going to create a situation in liver called insulin resistance this is a situation where you’re forcing your body to work so hard at at removing this junk out of the system all the sugar out of the system and it creates this protective mechanism where it’s going to start to block sugar okay and because sugar needs insulin to go into the cells and it all starts in the liver it’s at the root of obesity belly fat a fatty liver and high blood pressure all of that is directly caused from insulin resistance but a lot of times they confuse people and they say well each thing is associated with each other they’re not really showing you cause and effect relationship but eating for pleasure eating for the wrong purpose which is the bad habit directly destroys the liver because it creates insulin resistance and then from that point on it’s all downhill all right the next one number four is also eating for the wrong purpose eating for convenience okay I talk to a lot of people that don’t have a lot of time and so they’re on the run and so they have to quickly eat something and this usually always involves something pretty crappy lowquality food and not very good protein like a protein bar for example it doesn’t have high quality protein which is going to mess with your liver because it’s filled with this solvent called hexane and then they’re going to add also on top of that all these other hidden sugars and starches and chemicals so that’s what you’re exchanging for this convenience I was in that state for so many years even after a seminar that I did that I told all these people to eat healthy I’m driving home hungry cuz I I didn’t prepare and I drive past KFC okay Kentucky Fried Chicken and I’m thinking twice and I pull right in there okay hey Dr Berg and I’m like oh no no no no no I felt very embarrassed my face was red I quickly got my crispy fried chicken and left and hope I would never run into that person ever again of course I sat in my car and I ate this chicken it was delicious it was amazing all that MSG in there home I take a nap I wake up three hours later with my eyes bloodshot like feeling disgusted now if I even drive past a KFC just the smell of it makes me disgusted so what you want to do is you want to prepare your meals you want to plan out what you’re going to eat and just do a little preparation my wife and I a lot of times eat at different times and so I’m cooking my own meals and I’m not doing this long recipe thing I might just combine meat vegetables eggs cheese and I might have tomato with it I might have a salad some olive oil and maybe B salic vinegarette and now I have my meal took me a few minutes but all this packaged food out of convenience has a lot of seed oils there a lot of starch a lot of sugar you just want to avoid all that and you want to start adding in a a healthier habit all right we’re at number five stress and it not only creates a lot of problems for your sleep which then will cause your blood sugars to crash which will then cause you to go off the plan and eat things that you normally wouldn’t do chronic stress brings out dormant viruses out of remission that can affect the liver establishing new healthy habits it’s very very important to have enough sleep and this all revolves around doing things to strip off the stress Vitamin B1 before you go to bed vitamin D helps reduce stress exercise long walks all of these things reduce stress there’s a fantastic acupressure and stretching technique that I do every night before I go to bed that works on the fascia I will put that link down below so you can check that out but I also want to mention something else a lot of people are i