The #1 Thing Destroying Your Liver Isn't Alcohol
In a Nutshell
Fructose from high fructose corn syrup in sodas and processed foods is the #1 cause of chronic fatty liver disease, affecting 100 million people by forcing the liver to make and store fat while blocking fat export—far worse than fruit due to its rapid overload. Tylenol (acetaminophen), hidden in hundreds of meds, is the top cause of acute liver failure by rapidly depleting protective glutathione, with overdoses killing 500 yearly. Remedies include cutting fructose/sugar, eating choline-rich foods (liver, egg yolks), and supplementing NAC/selenium to boost glutathione and reverse damage.
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Alcohol-related liver disease affects 16 million Americans every year. Something people think is harmless causes chronic liver disease in 100 million people. Number one cause of acute liver failure is Tylenol.
Liver has over 500 functions. It takes toxins or poisons and turns them into something harmless. Glutathione is one of the most powerful compounds in the liver, acting as protection or bodyguard. Liver has a fat export system that shuttles fat out of the liver into the intestines. Everything eaten, breathed, or put on skin ends up in blood and liver, including lotion absorbed through skin into bloodstream. Glutathione neutralizes poisons if sufficient levels present. Ways to increase glutathione if deficient and enhance fat export system will be covered. Fatted liver is not good.
Fructose causes chronic liver disease in 100 million Americans. 2,000 years ago, ancient Romans made foie gras (expensive delicacy of diseased fatty liver) by force-feeding geese dried dates, the richest natural source of fructose. Now done with corn, but principle same. Modern equivalent is high fructose corn syrup in soda, cereals, granola bars, yogurt, ketchup, bread, thousands of processed foods—fastest way to make fatty liver.
Unlike glucose, which all cells can process, fructose metabolized only by liver. When fructose hits liver, activates fat accumulation (fructose is fat-making machine) and blocks fat burning simultaneously—making fat but unable to get rid of it, leading to fatty liver. Research shows fructose as dangerous as alcohol to liver. Body biochemically doesn't distinguish high fructose corn syrup in soda from alcohol. Fructose in fruit with fiber breaks down slowly—not the issue; liquid candy from high fructose corn syrup in large amounts overwhelms liver.
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