Fatty Liver (Diet Proven to Reverse It) NAFLD

hey this is dr. ken berry family physician and I'm so excited to make this video for you over four billion people on this planet suffer from fatty liver disease non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and there is now a proven diet that will reverse fatty liver disease and that's what we're going to talk about in this video so many people think that fatty liver disease either in children or in adults is just something that you're cursed with you have no choice in the matter you're just stuck with that currently 40 percent of obese children have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease it is the most common chronic liver disease in children now huge deal and so I'm so excited to bring you this information that's going to help you either reverse your fatty liver disease or to help your child reverse their fatty liver disease with this proven technique as you may know the typical advice for fatty liver disease is to move more eat less restrict your calories or burn more calories than you take in this is the standard advice for people with fatty liver although it almost never works there's no research to back that recommendation up it fails in 99% of people who tried because basically what they're telling you to do is to starve yourself for the rest of your life and no mammal can do that not even you there's no drug currently that is FDA approved for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and there's not a drug on the horizon and so this is excellent in from information for you to be able to reverse your fatty liver disease now most health care providers who take care of patients with fatty liver disease either children or adults have become so flustered by the lack of results that their recommendations get that bariatric surgery gastric bypass surgery is quickly becoming standard of care for people with fatty liver disease and that is terrible in this video I'm going to explain to you a method that is not only clinically proven in thousands of clinic hours by both me and other low-carb doctors but now has research-based proof to show that it works so if you know someone with fatty liver disease whether it's an adult or a child then please please consider sharing this video with them you're welcome to share this video in your groups on your page anywhere Instagram Twitter I don't care as long as we can help the four billion people on this planet who suffer from meatless fatty liver disease that's my goal now with over 4 billion people on the planet suffering from this dangerous condition fatty liver you would think that we would have multiple randomized trials that were well performed in humans to figure out what's causing this and to reverse it well surprise surprise there hasn't there's not one until now until now the University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have done a study in the moment and most of this video is going to be about that study and what it showed and then how you can immediately take what they found in this study and what I found in my 20 years of clinical research or a clinical experience in the clinic and you can apply that immediately to your life to start to reverse your fatty liver so what they did is they took 32 children human children not rats not dogs not peace humans between the ages of 9 and 17 years of age who had verified fatty liver disease now this is not from alcohol or acetaminophen overdose this is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease just from their diets all of these children were overweight if not obese because those go hand in hand kids they randomized these kids to either eat a low-carb diet or a low-fat diet the low-carb diet the macros broke down is 25 percent carb which I would consider not low-carb enough 25% protein and 50% fat that's what half the kids got randomly and then the other half the kids got a high low fat diet which consisted of 55% carbohydrates 25% protein and 25% or 20% fat so basically it was a low carb diets versus a low fat diet now which one do you think did the most and reverse the most of the fat out of these kids livers you might be surprised to watch this to the end and find out so they did this for eight weeks and for the first two weeks of the study they actually bought the groceries for the kids although all the kids and their family had access to registered dieticians they got routine appointments with the dietician they got all kinds of education on what to eat what not C they gave them meal plans and so they made it very clear on the on the high-fat diet or the low carb diet this is what you need to eat this is what you need to avoid and then also the same goes for the low fat diet they said this is what you need to eat this is what you need to avoid and they made it very clear to both groups and remember these kids were randomized into Group A or group b nobody knew where they were going to wind up so there was no researcher bias that was able to get into this study like it is so easy for the bias to get into observational studies both groups and then so for the first two weeks both groups were given groceries one group was given low carb groceries and other low-fat groceries and then for the last six weeks they bought their own groceries but they still had access to the registered dieticians explaining to them what they need to do at four weeks in they did a food diarrhea three-day food diaries so that the researchers are able to tell yep this kids still on track they're still eating the proper diet that we've set them up we've randomized them to eat both groups were told this is very important both groups were told to avoid junk food to avoid just processed crap and carbs to avoid soft drinks and so both groups were avoiding junk food that's very important so even the low-fat group they weren't eating the standard American crap they were still eating whole fruits whole vegetables and lean meats you got that so that's very important because a lot of people say oh well yeah you compare low-carb with real whole food to somebody eating the standard American junk obviously that's going to be better but both of these groups were eating real Whole Foods so now let me tell you what this study actually looked at we measured and so they took all these measurements I'm about to tell you that baseline before the study began and then they took all these again at eight weeks after the study finished and they did these studies in both groups so on both groups before the study started they got a magnetic resonance imaging of their abdomen this is by far the gold standard to look at fatty liver ultrasounds good but Mr is better and so both groups got a NMR the abdomen looking specifically at fatty liver how much fat was in the liver both groups got a DEXA body composition scan both at the beginning and at the end week mark both groups got lab work including a fasting glucose a fasting insulin a lipid panel and an HF CRP and the results of that are also recorded in the conclusions of this study which is very interesting they both both groups had their home iír or it's a calculated measure of insulin resistance calculated at the beginning and in eight weeks and then they had the resting energy expenditure calculated at the beginning and it ain't weights because the second big point about this study is that there was no calorie restriction in either group what they did is I did an re and they just they tried to figure out for this kid how many calories do they need today to maintain their weight so there was no calorie restriction this is enough calories this is the calories you were eating before this is the same amount of calories and the calories were the same in both groups so there was no calorie restriction in either arm hugely important for the conclusions of this study so you with me so far okay now let's talk about what the of this study word I think there are there exactly what I expected them to be but I think many health care providers and many parents and many people who suffer from fatty liver will be blown away by the findings of this study so at the end of the eight-week study when they crunched all the data here's what they found the low-carb group lost 2.4 percent of their body fat the low-fat group lost 0.4% okay the low-carb group lost 5.5 percent of their total fat mass in their total body by DEXA scan the low-fat group lost 0.1 percent okay got that now here's the B for liver fat the low-carb group lost 32 percent of their fat in the liver 32 percent a third of the fat in their liver was gone after eight weeks of a low-carb diet and this guy in my opinion it was a lower carb diet it was nowhere near a keto diet or what I would even consider a low-carb diet but still a it was a it was a relatively low carb diet how much liver fat did the low fat group lose one percent so once and for all we can put to bed the myth the lie that eating fat will make you fat or eating fat will cause fatty liver it does not work that way a low-carb diet removed six times as much fat as the low-fat crude diets so I mean there's just no way now both groups what about you say oh but the low I bet the low-carb group lost some muscle mass right both groups held their lean muscle mass or their lean body mass the same through the entire study the DEXA scan picked up no change in muscle mass so no the low-carb group did not lose muscle mass the low-carb group had a significant reduction in liver lab work there alt and there ast were significantly lower than the low fat group at the end of the study the low-carb group had a significant reduction in insulin resistance by the end of this study the low fat group did not the fasting insulin levels the lipid panel and the CRP were stable for eight weeks in both groups neither the low fat or the low carb group really was affected with those lapsing in mind keep in mind both groups got the amount of protein they needed to hold their weight and the amount of calories calculated to hold their weight so this was not calorie restriction the the low-carb group just ate fewer carbs than the low fat group that's the UH that's the only difference this is the first randomized trial to ever be done that I know of in the world about low-carb diets and fatty liver I think that if they had done an even lower carb diet they would have seen even more stunning results but this is a great leap forward for everybody in the world all four billion of you who suffer from fatty liver disease so once again let me sum up the finding as this study I want you listen very carefully and this is one of the reasons I need you to share this video because this is not equivocal at all this is very cut and dried in this study and there wasn't just a tiny one point one eight percent difference these are the big differences okay so the low-carb group lost more body fat by about four times as much as the low fat group the low-carb group lost six times as much liver fat as the low fat group huge difference both groups maintained their lean body mass and their muscle mass on the DEXA scan the low-carb group had no signs of inflammation that the low fat group didn't have they had no signs of any kind of disease that popped up and again their lipid panel their total cholesterol or LDL their HDL their triglycerides stayed the same from from the beginning of the study to week it had no effect on their lipid panel whether they were low carb or low fat and that that's a huge deal so once and for all calorie restriction portion control calorie deficit none of that is going to help you reverse your fatty liver disease a low-carb diet is the way to reverse fatty liver disease yeah I think this room this research study pretty much puts it to bed now this research has been presented as a poster at a recent American Diabetes Association event and it has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal I have a full copy but you can't get a full copy as of the making of this video but as soon as it's accepted and published in the peer-reviewed journal I'll be able to post a link to the full study and I want you to share this video to the heavens because there are so many people whose doctor is still telling them just move more and eat less that's that's all we got it's been it hasn't been proven to work but that's all I can tell you I don't know join Weight Watchers and join the gym stop giving that terrible advice health care providers and patients stop listening to that saying wait a minute if there a study because now you've got to study alright now I've got four other fatty liver videos on this channel already because that's what it'd be what a big deal it is so I'm going to put a link here in here at the end of this video so you can if you want to learn more about fatty liver or even fat fatty pancreas you can click one of those links and see more about that please subscribe to this channel so that every time new research like this comes out you'll be one of the very first to 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Barry I'm so happy to make this video and I'll see you next time

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Length: 14min 38sec (878 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 16 2020