Eggs on carnivore: the choline hack.
Your liver needs choline to process fat and export VLDL particles.
Each egg yolk: ~150mg choline
Daily need: ~400-550mg
Solution: 4-6 eggs daily.
Your liver is working hard if you're eating 200+ grams of fat daily. Give it the raw materials it needs.
Bonus: Eggs are cheap, quick to cook, and go with everything.
Scramble 6 eggs in butter with your ground beef. That's your choline sorted and you've added more fat.
02:25 Highest quality source of protein other than breast milk. It has virtually every nutrient that you need. Its amino acid profile is complete. Its nutrients and amino acids are very bioavailable. The waste product from eggs is so minimal because you're utilizing all this great protein.
03:00 The protein you get from plant-based sources is actually pretty poor.
03:35. Here you have this meat that we've been eating for thousands of years it's not just nutrient-dense but if you're consuming something that's grass-fed and grass-finished, you are getting a very high source of protein that can greatly help you not just with your muscles but repair the proteins overall in general. Sometimes people think about proteins as just muscle, but you have all the enzymes in your body, the different metabolic pathways are all protein, a good portion of your skin is protein, a good portion of your bone is protein; your immune system is protein. So when we're trying to replenish and repair proteins, we need sufficient proteins and bioavailable sources that our body can really use efficiently. Eggs are at the top of the list.
One egg will give you 7 grams of protein and virtually every single nutrient. It may not give you all the vitamin C, but It will give you the B vitamins; vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K1 and K2, and omega-3 fatty acids. So this is packed full of nutrients.
Other types of protein are just like muscle protein, but egg is a very unique source of protein.
05:05. Eggs contain Sphingomyelin. What is that? That's a compound that can help prevent plaquing in your vascular system. So if you're still hung up on this idea that eggs might clog your arteries, actually they don't; they actually prevent plaquing of your arteries.
05:22. Choline. Which is a really important nutrient that can help prevent a fatty liver in fact if you're deficient and choline you will get a fatty liver but Colin is also necessary for a healthy brain choline is a really good antidote to high cholesterol.
0543. Lutein and Zeaxanthin are two compounds that greatly support the macula of the eye, that is the back part of the eye. The macula helps you with central vision and also helps to act like a filter for UV radiation as well as filtering blue light there's a thing called age-related macular degeneration and these two compounds help prevent that condition.
So MarketWatch ran a story on Sunday, December, 10, 2017, on the increase in liver disease among middle-aged Americans. And it starts off harmless enough with a headline and then an explanation of what functions the liver performs.
Liver
disease is on the rise among middle-aged Americans, but many don’t know they
have it—or that they could develop it.
The liver performs critical jobs,
including cleaning toxins from the blood, storing energy and nutrients,
digesting fats and processing medications, alcohol and food.
And then it goes into shock mode, as if it were waking up the dead from the dead, where people will be running to their doctor's office screaming at them indicting them, "Why didn't you tell me that my liver was shot after all those quarts of Jack Daniels over the last two months!"
But a host of ills
and abuses can wreak havoc on the liver, from heavy drinking and infection with
hepatitis B or C to a scourge known as fatty-liver disease linked to diabetes
and obesity. Over time, the liver can become fibrous and scarred, eventually
developing cirrhosis, the replacement of normal tissue with hard tissue. The
damage that occurs increases the risk for liver cancer.
And if having a fibrous liver isn't horrible enough, imagine what happens when liver tissue hardens into cirrhosis and can no longer work? If your liver don't work, you won't be able to heal. You can't store vitamin D or C or any vitamin. You're done. At least according to this article. But you do have remedies which I point you to at the end of this review.
“Patients who are now respectable citizens may not
want to tell their doctors, ‘I was a crazy teen back in the ’60s,’ ”Dr. Anna S. Lok, director of hepatology at the University of
Michigan
What does that have to do with anything? If you're sick, you're sick. If you think that your doctor is the cure or his magic bag of tricks, then talk with him, share with her the biological details of your life. I am sure that it is bad, that liver disease is on the rise.
A September report by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that death rates for
chronic liver disease and cirrhosis rose 31% among those age 45 to 64 between
2000 and 2015. And cases of liver cancer rose more than 20% in the U.S. between
1990 and 2015.
Yet liver diseases often have no
symptoms until they are far advanced, making it all the more important to
identify and test those at risk.
Yes, it's true. This reminds me of when people tell me "I didn't expect to live past 40." That's because they never thought about their biology, and they found a rhythm and that rhythm has worked for them to help keep them alive. It reminds me too of functional drunks, people who show up to work irritable and hung over but charming enough to keep the office staff none the wiser or at least rationalize their suspicions or worries.
“With baby boomers, we may focus
on heart disease, dementia and cancer, and don’t always think about the liver,”
says Dr. Anna S. Lok, director of hepatology at the University of Michigan and
president of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Ah, yes, new drugs to the rescue. Or do they . . . rescue I mean?
There are new drugs that cure
hepatitis C, and a number of treatments are in development for advanced
fatty-liver disease. Getting and staying sober can reverse liver damage caused
by alcohol, and losing weight can reverse damage caused by nonalcoholic liver
disease.
This is true, and this is my point. People don't take adequate care of themselves, in part, because they don't perceive how things, meaning their biology, is broken. And that is in part thanks to our homeostasis that keeps us from being conscious of pain.
“The liver is very forgiving and
can bounce back even in early stages of cirrhosis,” says Lok. Once cirrhosis is
advanced, however, the only option is a liver transplant, which can be hard to
come by. There are new treatments for liver cancer if diagnosed early, so
screening cirrhosis patients for liver cancer is important, she says.
TESTING BARRIERS
Remember back in the 70s and 80s how all doctors were recommending surgery? I mean the medical profession seemed like they were staffed with a bunch of drunks. Seriously. The attention to your concerns were next to nil. I consulted 3 separate doctors once on a knee problem. Each one recommended surgery, like they were part of a some profitable cabal. They all thought alike. Not one paused. Surgery was recommended as much as aspirin was. Today we know that a lot of surgeries are either totally unnecessary or completely botched. They don't know what they're doing. Yes, they're following a protocol, but so do dentists. Would you accept every recommendation made to you by your dentist? Ouch. How do you think Hepatitis was transmitted? Bingo! Surgery.
According to a
study published last month in JAMA Oncology, the rise in liver cancer in
the U.S. is partially due to hepatitis C infection in baby boomers. An
estimated 1 in 30 have been infected with the virus, the second-leading cause
of cirrhosis. Hepatitis C was often transmitted during medical treatment before
infection-control procedures were widely adopted, or from blood transfusions
before 1992, when screening for the virus virtually eliminated such risks. It
also is spread among intravenous-drug users, even with just one use, and from
unsteril[ized] tools at tattoo parlors.
This is true enough.
In 2012, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recommended a one-time hepatitis C test for all adults
born between 1945 and 1965. But fewer than 30% have actually been tested,
according to estimates. Doctors may fail to ask patients about past medical
procedures or drug-use history, and patients may either be unaware of possible
medical exposures or be hesitant to mention risky behavior such as
intravenous-drug use.
So it's clear what this is implying. Nice how the author is attacking baby boomers. Why not? The millennials get hit with degrading reports on a daily basis. Perhaps the two should unite!
“Patients who are now respectable
citizens may not want to tell their doctors, ‘I was a crazy teen back in the
’60s,’ ” Lok says.
Okay, so far we're more than half way through the article and not a word about nutritional or food therapies and only a hint at some new treatments. But wait, here it comes, you know, the agenda behind the article. And what is that agenda? Electronic tracking of health records. Yes. That's it!!! That's the answer to the increase in liver disease. For people, according to the between the lines statements, are too clueless to track their own health. That's it!!!
To eliminate such barriers, Lok
and colleagues have designed an electronic-health-record alert that prompts
primary-care physicians to perform such screenings if patients who are baby
boomers haven’t yet been diagnosed or tested. In a study published in
the journal Hepatology in September, the team said hepatitis C testing rates
increased fivefold, to 72% among those born between 1945 and 1965, in the year
after the electronic alerts were launched. Of 53 newly diagnosed patients, 11
had advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis, 20 started treatment and so far nine have
been cured.
Oh, I see, so if you've got other diseases, then you may be at risk for liver disease as well. And since liver disease conveniently doesn't present symptoms, why, you're really SOL.
If you are overweight or have Type 2
diabetes, you may be at risk of fatty liver disease.
Can't doctors detect liver disease through an annual or bi-annual blood test? It appears so.
The first sign of liver disease
may be elevated liver enzymes in a blood test. Dr. Elliot Tapper, an assistant
professor at University of Michigan who treats patients at its clinics and at
the Ann Arbor VA hospital, says issues related to alcohol, obesity and diabetes
are the most likely cause, followed by hepatitis B or C. Tests for such
conditions should be used first, including an ultrasound of the liver to look
for fatty-liver disease. If patients disclose they drink excessively or use
intravenous drugs, or are taking a drug or dietary supplement that can cause
liver damage, the need for more invasive tests such as liver biopsies to test
for rarer conditions falls sharply, Tapper says.
FATTY LIVER . . . IS TREATABLE
I love how dishonest and scary these reports are written, ". . . affects as many as 100 million Americans . . . but also strikes children and young adults." Isn't that about everybody? Who's left?
Fatty-liver disease, a buildup of
fat in the liver, affects as many as 100 million Americans, especially those in
their 40s and 50s, but also strikes children and young adults. The disease can
lead to a progressive form known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH,
which can cause scarring that leads to cirrhosis and increases the risk of
heart disease, Tapper says. Genetic variations may make some people more
vulnerable.
Love how these articles scare the bejesus out of adults and parents. And what is the solution? Biopsies!!! Yes, of course, give us your tissues!!!
While liver biopsies are still
used to definitively diagnose liver diseases and determine their stage,
noninvasive tests using different types of scans and imaging technology such as
MRI are becoming more widely used. A 2015 study of 100 patients, using such
technology, showed that almost two-thirds with Type 2 diabetes have evidence of
nonalcoholic fatty-liver disease, while more than 7% have advanced fibrosis.
Study author Dr. Rohit Loomba, director of hepatology and a research center
devoted to nonalcoholic fatty-liver disease at the University of California,
San Diego, says follow-up studies aim to determine whether such technology is
cost-effective for wide use.
Wow. As a diabetic, if you're not frightened into a stressful state by now, then there must be something wrong with you. Note that magnesium is critical for diabetics. What doesn't the article point that out!?!?!?
Until such screening methods are
better established, he says, doctors should assess their patients with classic
risk factors for fatty-liver disease—those in their 40s and 50s at high risk of
heart disease because of obesity and diabetes. Fatty-liver disease is also
closely linked to metabolic syndrome, a group of abnormalities that include
increased belly fat, high blood pressure and high blood levels of triglycerides,
a type of fat.
Why does the article refuse to mention any nutritional therapies if, in fact, the condition is so bad? Because they want to cause you to run into your doctor's office frantic clamoring for a fatty liver test. "Give it to me! Give it to me now!!" As if on cue . . .
“If you are overweight or obese
and have Type 2 diabetes and are 50 or older, you need to ask your primary-care
doctor if you might have fatty-liver disease,” Loomba advises.
Wow! What's with the optimism. Hilarious, Groucho.
For patients in midlife who have
already piled on extra pounds, or are gaining a few pounds each year, even
moderate weight loss can reduce risk and help reverse harm to the liver, he
adds.
Laura
Landro is a former Wall Street Journal assistant managing editor. Email her
at reports@wsj.com.
Other investigators
found that a B-vitamin class nutrient called choline cured fatty liver.
Did you read that, “cured”?
Choline exercises a
controlling influence over the amount of fat in the liver. Impressive.
And this
In humans, choline
levels are closely related to the severity of liver disease.
And this
Higher dietary
choline intake is associated with lower risk for fatty liver disease in humans.
And this
In 1949 researchers
showed that table surgar (sucrose from can sugar) and alcohol had equal
potential to cause fatty liver disease and that choline could completely
protect against this effect.
Okay, okay, you
almost don’t believe how good choline is in protecting liver, what, with all we’ve
heard and been led to believe about alcohol and cirrhosis of the liver and
whatnot. But there it is in plain
English, “abolishes,” “cures,” “protects.”
And there’s more.
An experiment
reported on in 1935 showed that among 20 young animals placed on a fatty diet
low in choline versus another equal sized group of animals given supplemental
choline, fat was deposited in the liver of the choline deficient animals while
the choline-fortified diet results in only slight fat deposition in the
liver. Strikingly, five of the animals
who did not receive choline died within 2 months. In a subsequent experiment, 30% of laboratory
mice on a low-choline diet died whereas no lab animals given supplemental
choline died.
The takeaway? Supplemental choline works better than choline in the diet. This is almost too good, and yet there is more. Read the rest for yourself. It will blow your hair back.
Lecithin is considered an excellent source of
choline, one of the B vitamins. Once in the body, a key component of
lecithin–phosphatidylcholine–breaks down into choline. Now available in dietary
supplement form, phosphatidylcholine (PC) might be thought of as a purified
extract of lecithin. It is commonly recommended for treating liver, nerve, and
a variety of other conditions, including multiple sclerosis and memory loss.
You see. This is better than a scare piece. Simply find the nutrient in supplemental form that addresses your situation. And I can think of no person out there who is reading, reviewing, examining the facts and reporting on them for the benefit of so many than Bill Sardi.
