ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT, NOT CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS, DESCREASES OSTEOPOROSIS BONE FRACTURES BY 25% to 50%.

Opinion: Can your hip replacement kill you? https://t.co/4DIQApdHrL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 13, 2018

Metal to bone, even in dentistry or especially in dentistry, can be horrific.  So why not take care now to stem the tide on that prospect?  Fewer and fewer things are inevitable in this world thanks to science.  It is true that a hip replacement can save a life.  And can keep people productive and active.  I don't really know.  I know only one person who has had a hip replacement.  Check out Stephen Tower's experience with his hip replacement done in 2006.

When Stephen Tower’s right hip gave out in 2006, he asked his surgeon to implant an artificial one — specifically, a metal-on-metal hip called the ASR XL, made by Johnson &Johnson. He knew what he was talking about: As an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Tower specializes in complex hip replacements. But what he knew wasn’t enough to protect him from a defect in the device.Five years after his surgery, and in excruciating pain, Dr. Tower underwent more surgery, this time to have the device replaced.

When the surgeon sliced into his hip, what he saw looked like a crankcase full of dirty oil. Tissue surrounding the hip was black. Cobalt leaking from the ASR hip had caused a condition called metallosis, destroying not only local muscle, tendons and ligaments, but harming Dr. Tower’s heart and brain as well. 

That can't be good.  So to avoid this problem down the line, be sure to keep your bones strong.  But with what?  Calcium?  Hardly, particularly for post-menopausal women.  This fact made me blink

Strangely, modern medicine acts as if it is baffled and dumbfounded when it is commonly reported that arteries calcify at a rate that correlates with loss of calcium from bone. This is called the "calcification paradox." There is no paradox, except in the minds of ill-informed physicians.

Wow.  As our limbs grow thinner and we lose bone, the calcium does not exit the body; it only transfers to our arteries, hardening them.  Ouch.  But there is an antidote for this: vitamin D3.

From that same Bill Sardi article, he writes

Estrogen sends a signal for calcium to be held in bones. Without that signal, calcium slowly exits bone and is deposited in arteries. The risk for heart disease rises by 360% with the onset of menopause. Calcium released from bone is deposited in arteries, which causes loss of elasticity, inability to control blood pressure, and eventual blood clots or calcium plaque that can block a coronary artery that feeds the heart oxygen. This arterial blockage is called a heart attack.

The point is that post-menopausal women do not want to be supplementing with calcium.  Instead, supplement with estrogen. 

Calcium supplementation in menopause is futile. Studies do show calcium supplementation helps to slow down the loss of calcium from bone, but there is no gain in bone density. On a net sum basis, calcium is still being lost from bone.

Why don't women simply replace estrogen? 

The answer to the above question is that women have literally been frightened away from estrogen replacement without adequate scientific evidence. This is despite the fact that estrogen replacement decreases the incidence of osteoporotic bone fractures by 25% to 50%.  Instead, doctors now prescribe alternate medications to inhibit bone loss (Fosamax, Boniva, Actonel) which produce abhorrent side effects such as esophageal erosion, stomach irritation and even jaw-bone damage.

Hormone replacement therapy reduces bone turnover, increases bone mineral density (BMD), and decreases vertebral fracture rates by approximately 40%, even in women over 70 years of age.

It will come as a surprise to learn that abandonment of hormone replacement therapy in 2002 was a false alarm. Investigators were recently surprised by the "enormous discrepancy they found between the belief that hormones are dangerous and the lack of supporting data."

BREAD, RICE, PASTA, CEREAL INCREASE RISK OF DEATH BY 28%; DIETS HIGHER IN FAT REDUCE MORTAL RISK BY 23%

Let's start with a stunning statement.

And now the final blow–the carbohydrate-rich diet that became the nation’s food guideline, leads to an early death.  As I write this column today a newly published study carried this news headline: “Death by Carbohydrates.” Yes, higher carbohydrate intake (bread, rice, pasta, cereal) increases the risk for death by 28% while diets higher in fat reduce mortal risk by 23%.

So if you eat breakfast cereal or toast with your bacon and eggs, pasta or rice for dinner on a daily basis, you're raising your risk of death by 28%?  Ouch. 

I eat rice.  On occasion.  As of late, on more than one occasion.

I don't eat breakfast cereal.  Who needs the added sugar?  But nor do I eat shredded wheat.

I don't eat pasta any more, but I do eat sandwiches.  Boy, do I eat sandwiches.  I hate this.  There are days, perhaps too many days, where I rush and am not able to prepare a meal at home.  So I eat out.  It is almost impossible to find healthy solutions on the go.  Maybe, just maybe a Whole Foods kale salad, but there isn't really a Whole Foods store in your immediate vicinity.  

So the path to health, the path to life is to get rid of breakfast cereals, rice, pasta, and bread from your home.  Don't quibble.  Just do it.  There are excellent substitutes.  Ground up greens.  Not to a pulp but shred it to the size of rice.  

Okay, now let's take a look at the rest of Sardi's article, titled "Mind Bending Drugs for Psycho Diets."

It's this "higher carbohydrate intake [of] bread, rice, pasta, cereal" that Sardi calls the American diet.  The statistic above illustrates how this American diet increases death by 28%.  But before you get there, you'll suffer from some terribly debilitating conditions--depression, forgetfulness, overweight (maybe obesity), fatigue, and other ailments--that reduce your productivity and your life to levels of mediocrity only public high schools are familiar with.  

When we're young, we're not taught to think about our diet.  As kids, whatever our parents put in front of us we would eat . . . more or less.  And when we're independent, we eat what our parents weened us on--pizza, spaghetti, oatmeal, bacon and eggs, soft drinks, milk.  In short, we did as we were wordlessly told.  As young men and women, the effects of this American diet did not immediately register.  We're going along.  We're moving along.  We were making progress.  Until we're hit with something.  That's when the accumulative effect of a psycho diet works its destruction.  Actually, before some event, for the havoc that this American diet reeks on our minds is the whole point of Sardi's article.  It destroys the gut and the mind.  So decision-making is hazardous.  Uncertainty raises stress.  Life can be a ride and a hell.  Sardi explains

There is such a thing as a mental depression diet.  It’s called the American diet.  In response, physicians hand out anti-depressant pills making patients dependent on these pills for the remainder of their lives when their calorie-rich/nutrient poor diet is causing their problems.  Where does depression/anxiety emanate from? Not the brain but the intestines, what is now called the gut-brain axis.  In a misdirection, mood-altering drugs directly target neurotransmitters in the brain.

Then there is this

Altered gut bacteria early in life, particularly from over-use of antibiotics that literally sterilize the gut, and modern sugar-laden carbohydrate-rich diets by virtue of their generation of low-grade chronic inflammation, increase the risk for a depressed mood and eventually losing one’s mind later in life.

There is a whole class of antidepressant drugs called serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s) that increase serotonin levels in the brain.  Gut bacteria (microbiota) control serotonin.  The SSRI fluoxetine (Prozac) is itself an antibiotic that kills gut bacteria.

So the depression/anxiety emanates from the gut-brain axis in the intestines.  And antibiotics kill gut bacteria.  Let this be a lesson to those who don't know this.  If you put your aging mom or dad in the hospital, and the idiot doctor wants to put her on a regimen of antibiotic IV, something "harmless" until they can run more tests, know that you're unwittingly be coerced into being an accomplice in your father or mother's death.  And see how that will sit you with for the next 5 years. What's my point?  Stay away from doctor-prescribed antibiotics.  The only antibiotic you should take is nature's powerul antibiotic, garlic.  

Therefore, that should be the first place to consider.  Be careful what you put in your gut.  The goal is to use foods that build a healthy brain.

In particular, high blood levels of an undesirable blood protein called homocysteine, are associated with mental decline, depression and other brain disorders (B vitamins are the antidote for this).

The diet is loaded with natural antidepressants – for example, blueberries, grapes, pomegranates.  Many of these anti-depressant fruits and vegetables contain molecules like quercetin, catechin and resveratrol that control homocysteine and bind to iron and copper, major culprits in the onset of age-related brain disease and depression.

Okay, so avoid bread, pasta, rice, and cereals, and replace them with phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables.  Could it be any simpler?  

Keep reading.  

Be sure to check out Sardi's list at the end of where he points you everso specifically to effective nutritional remedies.  

THE OPPOSITE OF ADDICTION IS NOT SOBRIETY; THE OPPOSITE OF ADDICTION IS CONNECTION

A MUST-LISTEN INTERVIEW ON ADDICTION

Interview is from Tom Woods Show.

Here are my notes . . . 

Anslinger was riding the fear of Latinos, a lot of parallels of today, “If you smoke cannabis you will murder your family with an axe.”  This was the reason why cannabis was banned.  

90% of crack and heroin users do not become addicted, leaving 10% or less of those who do use these drugs become addicted.  

Chemical hooks theory.  Patients recovering from serious injuries are put on heroin drugs in hospitals but they never get addicted.  If heroin is addictive, why are these folks not getting addicted?  The chemical hooks theory took place following a lab experiment with a rat.  A rat was placed in a cage with two cups–one with water only, the other laced with heroin.  Placed all by itself, the rat almost always preferred the heroin-laced water.  It’s not the drug that causes addiction, it’s the isolation.  Rat Park: lots of colored balls, other rats, lots of sex.  In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water.  They don’t use it very much.  In the 1970s, scientists came along and pointed out that you put the rat all alone in an empty cage, where it’s got nothing to do except use these drugs, what would happen if we did this differently?  So he built a cage that he called Rat Park. 

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety; the opposite of addiction is connection.  Places where addiction is highest is where suffering is highest.  Not a coincidence that the current addiction crisis spiked after 2008.  Core of addiction is trying to avoid pain, trying not to be present in your life.  Fundamental errors in the war on drugs.  One solution is to get rid of the drugs.  Can’t do that; they even appear in prisons.  If you could do that, that’s not the core of the problem.  War on Drugs says you stop addiction by inflicting more pain on addicts.  He gives the example of a woman in prison in Arizona where she is humiliated.  Stopping addiciton by afflicting more punishment on them.  Punishment makes suffering worse, and therefore makes addiction worse. 

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Marcia Powell, 48, was baked in 106-degree heat for 4 hours under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a disciple of Harry Anslinger.  A woman cooked in a cage in Arizona kept getting arrested.  Judged by the courts to be mentally incompetent.  She was trying to kill herself, and the guards to stop her from doing that put her in an outdoor cage.  Exposed to the desert sun.  Prison guards said they forgot about her.  She screamed, she begged for water, and by the time they called for an ambulance, she had been cooked.  No one was ever criminally punished for what happened to Marcia Powell.  Because when you dehumanize someone with an addiction problem so deeply, you can brazenly murder someone with an addiction problem and it just doesn’t matter, it doesn’t get counted.  

To remedy a few addictions, see Bill Sardi's list:

Myricetin, a molecule from the Asian raisin tree, has been shown to block the cell receptor in the brain responsible for addiction to alcohol.

One of Myricetin's benefits is indicated in Alzheimer's.  Interesting.

Researchers at UCLA tested various molecules and found one that magnanimously blocked the cell (GABA) receptor on the surface of brain cells that produces alcohol craving.  [Acta Pharmacologica Sinica Aug 2014; Neurochemical Research June 2014]

N-acetyl cysteine, a sulfur compound, has been shown to reduce behavioral addictions such as gambling and physical addictions such as smoking. [Journal Clinical Psychiatry Jan 2014]

Zinc supplementation may be beneficial for those individuals who are hooked on opoid drugs (Fentanyl, morphine, Oxycontin, etc.). [Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention Policy Aug 4, 2015]

Carvacrol from oil of oregano is effective in beating back fungal overgrowth (Candida species) that creates sugar craving. [European Journal Clinical Microbiology Infectious Disease Jan 2011]

Zinc and magnesium may be helpful in reducing nicotine addiction among heavy smokers. [Addiction Research & Therapy 2012]

EVERY HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN ORDERED TO CANCEL ALL NON-URGENT SURGERY

Socialized medicine cuts servives?  Sooprise, sooprise.  

from the Washington Examiner.  h/t EconomicPolicyJournal

American liberals such as Sen. Bernie Sanders like to tout socialized healthcare systems such as Britain's for spending less and covering everybody, but here's a reality check you shouldn't expect to hear in any of his fiery speeches: the British government-run National Health Service has abruptly canceled 50,000 non-emergency surgeries due to overcrowding at hospitals this winter.

Sanders, I-Vt., has lamented that the United States "ends up spending almost three times per capita what they do in the UK," which is "guaranteeing healthcare to all people." Yet here is what life is like for those living in the supposedly more humane system, as reported by the Telegraph:

Every hospital in the country has been ordered to cancel all non-urgent surgery until at least February in an unprecedented step by NHS officials.
The instructions on Tuesday night - which will see result in around 50,000 operations being axed - followed claims by senior doctors that patients were being treated in “third world” conditions, as hospital chief executives warned of the worst winter crisis for three decades.

Hospitals are reporting growing chaos, with a spike in winter flu leaving frail patients facing 12-hour waits, and some units running out of corridor space.

The nation's health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has defended the move as “a planned, methodical, thoughtful” approach. He told Sky News, "We recognize that it is better, if you are unfortunately going to have to cancel or postpone some operations, to do it in a planned way … Although if you are someone whose operation has been delayed I don’t belittle that for one moment and indeed I apologize to everyone who that has happened to." He went on to praise the "heroic" efforts of NHS workers.

As the American Left tries to push single-payer into the forefront of the national conversation, it's important to have a real conversation about the tradeoffs involved. In the U.K., having the government "guarantee" healthcare while trying to contain costs results in strained medical services, turning one of the largest economies in the world into a "third world"-like environment. The NHS "guarantee" doesn't always translate into actual access to care when you need it. The other option is to throw more money at the system, in which case single-payer becomes much more costly than promised. It's also worth thinking about the cultural component. Do we think Americans are going to stand for a system in which government officials cancel surgeries en masse based on bureaucratic judgments about what is urgent and go on TV to offer inadequate apologies?

IN 1934 RESEARCHERS . . . REPORTED THAT CHOLINE ABOLISHES FATTY LIVER

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.

The story “The Hidden Disease Of The Middle-Aged” first appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Okay, now for some truth, some answers.  Jeeze.  

Chart courtesy of Bill Sardi @ KnowledgeofHealth

Choline treats fatty liver disease.  Eggs are an excellent source of choline.  Got it?  So what is the message?  Eat eggs to keep your liver healthy.  .

The Single Nutrient That Eradicates Fatty Liver Disease

That’s quite a headline.  Wait until you see the list of citations proving that fact.  The incredible headlines simply multiply.  There's this

In 1934 researchers in Liverpool, England reported that choline abolishes fatty liver.  

You read that right, “abolishes.”  Fairly strong language I would say.  Then this

Humans eating low choline diets develop fatty liver and liver damage.

Just incredible. 

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 an excellent source of choline.  WholeHealthChicago explains  

 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.