The Shocking Link Between Your Liver and Your Feet: 12 Things Your Feet Can Tell You

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So today we’re going to talk about how to diagnose your liver from your foot now we’re not actually giving you an actual diagnosis we’re just using the foot to look at indicators that you may have a liver problem and I think one big problem medicine is that everything is so specialized you know you have just one doctor that studies just the foot and then you have another doctor that just studies the liver a hepatologist and sometimes if you just focus on one area you’re not looking at the big picture and you might not be able to associate different relationships So today we’re going to do that and the more you understand about things like this and the different associations the more appreciation you’re going to have for your body especially your liver and I think the better you’re going to take care of yourself I did another video on this topic a while ago and I read one of the comments that just prompted me to do this updated video one lady mentioned she drank a lot of alcohol and because of that video she actually stopped drinking so that’s incredible so let’s Dive Right In and go to my whiteboard to explain this next part all right let’s start with these purple brown red dots on the lower part of the legs what’s going on here is we have leaky blood vessels okay now there’s a medical term which I’m going to introduce you to okay so it’s a big word but I’ll Define it it’s called thrombocytopenia okay this condition usually occurs with a liver problem all right let’s break it down what is a thrombocyte well it’s a platelet okay what are platelets they’re cells that help clot okay in fact the Greek word for thrombo means clot and then cyto means cell and then pinia means low so we have low platelets so thrombocytopenia is basically you are not going to be able to clot and so you’re going to have leaky blood vessels and you’re going to see this right here now you do see this Advanced liver disease and you also see it in diabetes which by the way the liver can actually create diabetes so you might see them in both conditions all right the next thing is spider angioma it’s a spider-like presentation of red blood vessels on certain parts of your body and they can show up in your ankles your foot your lower legs other parts of the body this is an estrogen problem because estrogen dilates the blood vessels and that’s why you see this in pregnancy because pregnant women are high in estrogen also as a side effect from taking birth control pills hormone replacement therapy as well as in liver conditions because the liver helps to buffer estrogen and if there’s damage in the liver you’re going to have higher levels of estrogen in men and women all right the next one is cracked heels so sometimes you get this cracked dry bleeding skin around your heels that’s usually a vitamin B3 deficiency now a B3 deficiency a real severe deficiency in B3 would be pellegra but you can have a subclinical pellagra which is not a full-blown plega with all the different symptoms but some of the symptoms which involve the skin and so a B3 deficiency affects areas of the body where you have this higher rate of sell turnover like the skin has to constantly replace itself well when you’re deficient in B3 now you’re not going to be able to replace these cells efficiently and it’s going to show up in cracked skin now what can cause that well liver problems which can come from drinking too much alcohol it can also come from consuming too much corn and I’ll talk a little bit about that in a bit okay so then we have dry scaly skin so maybe a certain part of your foot has this really roughened dry scaly skin situation that’s usually low omega-3 fatty acids and that can come from a lack of bile because let’s say part of the liver is fatty and it can’t produce the bile to extract these fat soluble nutrients one being omega-3 fatty acids now this can also be from consuming too many omega-6 fatty acids and that would be like the corn oil the soy oil the canola even peanut oil safflower sunflower oil all right the next one is itchy skin this usually is a condition where the bile is backing up because there’s some type of sludge in the bile ducts and the term for that is called choleostasis so we’re having this backup of bile that backs up in the liver it backs up into the blood and into the skin and if there’s bile in the skin you are going to experience itchiness and many times it’s in the foot the bottom part of the foot maybe this area of the foot right through here you probably will also see your urine is darker your skin might be a bit on the yellow side especially the whites of the eyes and your stool might be on the lighter side as far as the color and then we have bad odor I mean one of the purposes of liver is to detoxify the body and so if the liver can’t detoxify the toxins come out through the skin I remember in practice I learned a technique that really helped people with low back pain by working on their feet okay okay and so people would come in and I’d be working on their feet and different types of manipulation and in massaging to the bottom of the foot until some people came in with bad livers I said after that you know I’m going to refer these people out to work on their feet because some bad odor because certain people even if they wash their feet on a regular basis still will have this bad odor if the liver is toxic all right the other thing about the bottom of the foot if the person has pain numbness like a burning sensation this is usually peripheral neuropathy many times it’s diagnosed as a plantar fasciitis but here’s the interesting thing about that insulin resistance which eventually turns into pre-diabetes and then diabetes originates in the liver so anyone with insulin resistance pre-diabetes or diabetes is going to have a liver problem and the more fat and inflammation that the liver starts to develop the more insulin resistance they’re going to have which aggravates the condition aggravates the blood sugar situation and then we have this thing called gout now normally when you think about gout you think of the kidney right because the kidney filters the blood and it’s getting rid of this uric acid but you have something called the urea cycle okay which involves the breakdown of protein and also involves uric acid and so as you fix the liver and work on the liver you’re going to find your gout attacks your gout symptoms are going to be much better but the main gout symptom is pain in this big toe and this joint right through here there’s inflammation right there all right now we have toenail fungus which usually is an imbalance of microbes in your gut you normally should have these Diversified microbes to actually protect against the overgrowth of fungus and so this is associated with an imbalance in your microflora and this is also associated with the liver because the liver and the bowel work very very closely and one of the things that happens when the liver is not working it’s not able to produce the bile that’s supposed to keep the small intestine clean of bacteria and prevent an overgrowth so a healthy liver can help prevent something called sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and to keep these microbes in check so you don’t have this overgrowth of one bacteria or a fungus versus another alright the next thing you can have is these corns on your toes usually they grow on the inside of the toe it can be very irritating and a corn is really a vitamin A deficiency vitamin M A is involved in the differentiation of certain cells so anytime you’re deficient vitamin A you’ll have all sorts of skin issues maybe certain weird growths that occur or dryness or roughness so in addition to the omega-3 fatty acid deficiency you can also have a vitamin A deficiency which comes from the same thing low bile salts bile salt