Month: January 2025

Irritable Bowel Syndrome May Be Both a Chemical and Mechanical Issue

Posted on by Diogenes II

When doctors narrow down and label your gastrointestinal issues as IBS, what they are really saying is, they don’t know what’s wrong with you! You cannot really blame them for being idiopathic — just the small and large intestine alone can stretch out to 27 feet! Finding what is causing your gastrointestinal issues can sometimes be like looking for a needle in a haystack! In this article, we will look at the chemical and mechanical processes that may lead to IBS, and find that needle in the haystack!

Why it’s so hard to heal gut issues?

The gastrointestinal complex is one big hole with a tube from the mouth to the anus. This hole is exposed to the outside world more than any other organ because, we have to constantly put things in it (including toxins). So it’s like a conveyor belt in a manufacturing facility that never gets a rest. To make things more complicated, this conveyor belt has two main hot regions — the stomach (acid) and the cecum. To make things more complicated, hot “lava” a.k.a. stomach acid, often infiltrate the beginning of the small intestine (the duodenum), and food tends to get stuck in the region between the end of the small intestine and beginning of large intestine (the cecum). Furthermore, the door that opens to the cecum often gets stuck, causing waste product to rot at the entrance of the doorway a.k.a ileocecal valve.

Gastrointestinal issues such as IBS do not start in the colon — they start in the mouth. It starts with what you put in your mouth and the pH of your mouth. If your saliva is too acidic (5.5) or too alkaline (7.5), there goes your problem. The gram-positive bacteria in your mouth cannot protect your stomach if your saliva pH is not ideal!

The food that enters your stomach cannot be broken down properly if your stomach pH is not acidic enough (less than 2.5). There are certain proteins, enzymes and factors in your gut that will not be released or will not work properly if your stomach is not acidic enough. These include, the intrinsic factor that releases vitamin B12, and the enzyme pepsin that helps break down proteins in food. Taking alkaline water or antacids like TUMS for acid reflux may make you feel better, but will surely deplete your stomach acid, leaving you vulnerable to bacterial infections and incomplete digestion of food.

As this broken down food moves down further the gastrointestinal tract, it encounters chemicals. One of the first chemical is bile from the gallbladder, used to alkalinize the acidity from the food coated with stomach acid. Bile release is activated by the existence of stomach acid. Thus low stomach acid equals low bile release. The next is sodium bicarbonate from the pancreas, also used to buffer food blessed with stomach acidity. Pancreatic enzymes are also released to further bread down food, namely pancreatin and protease, to help break down proteins further; lipase, to help break down fats; amylase, to help break down carbohydrates, and cellulase/hemicellulase, to help break down fiber.

Now this processed food or chyme now enters the first, second and third parts of the small intestine, called the duodenum, jejunum and ileum, respectively. There, an extraction process goes on, releasing minerals, vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, fatty acid and other nutrients into the bloodstream through Intestinal finger-like projections called villi.

The remaining undigested food is welcomed at the door of the large intestine, called the ileocecal valve. Sometimes this door (that leads to the cecum) does not open all the way. This fully unopened door can sometimes make undigested food feel a little unwelcomed, causing some of it — because of waiting too long — to rot at this junction. This cascade of ileocecal valve incompetence may lead to all manner of evil: abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, constipation and the birth of bacterial overgrowth.

The food that gets by the ileocecal valve on a timely fashion enters the acidic cecum. Some label the cecum (the beginning part of the the large intestine) as a second stomach, because of the high heat and acids it produces as food travels up the ascending colon.

In the colon, bacteria ferment undigested proteins, carbohydrates and fiber, producing the release of many gases, including hydrogen, carbon dioxide, sulfide, methane and ammonia. Much are recycled, while others are treated as waste product to be excreted.

Bacteria primarily in the colon also breaks down fiber from carbohydrates to produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) — including acetate, propionate, and butyrate  — that nourish and keep colonic cell wall heathy and functional. Other SCFAs include formate, valerate, and hexanoate that are produced in lower amounts.

Water is also extracted from this undigested food and recycled back into the body. If there is some type of dehydration, for whatever reason, the result may become a mechanical issue, known as constipation!

Constipation

Diarrhea should not be labeled as the opposite of constipation — it may actually be a dramatic form of constipation, resulting from watery stool flowing pass impacted stool (or fecal impaction) too hard to move. The closest, official name for this diarrhea system may be called: paradoxical diarrhea.

There is acute constipation and there is chronic constipation. Acute constipation only lasts a short period of time throughout one’s life. But chronic constipation may persist for years, even decades. Chronic constipation can lead to other mechanical digestive malfunction, even after the initial constipation situation is resolved.

The devastating effects of chronic constipation:

During chronic constipation or even after it is resolved, almost permanent damage may be done to certain muscular system throughout the colon. It is called anismus aka dyssynergic defecation, specifically paradoxical puborectalis contraction (PPC). What all this means is the muscles of the rectum don’t work — they are unrelaxed and stiff. All of this appropriately falls under an umbrella term called: paradoxical puborectalis syndrome (PPS).

Paradoxical puborectalis syndrome

At the base of the rectum is the control center that regulates all gastrointestinal and urinary activity. It is called the pelvic floor muscles, with a huge sling-like muscle called, the puborectalis.

Many people who suffer from gastrointestinal issues from chronic constipation may have a tight, stiff puborectalis, and not even know it.

Paradoxical puborectalis syndrome encompasses not only a dysfunction of the puborectalis, which is the involuntary contraction and tightening of this muscle when it should be relaxing to allow bowel movement, but also the associated symptoms like bloating, straining, incomplete (stool) evacuation, tenesmus, rectal discomfort and self consciousness caused by this dysfunction.

Treatment for paradoxical puborectalis syndrome:

First, to confirm PPS, you must see a pelvic floor specialist at the PELVIC PHYSIOLOGY CENTER and perform what is known as Anorectal Manometry and/or a balloon expulsion test (BET). If PPC is confirmed, then a series of EMS Biofeedback training may be implemented to retrain and relax the puborectalis muscle and anal sphincter muscles. Additionally, a pelvic floor physical therapist may be recommended to teach relaxation and stretching techniques which target the pelvic floor muscles.

The success rate of the aforementioned techniques is either unknown or very low!

May Be Better Options for PPS:

PPS like most syndromes may be hard to figure out and treat. But these are the recommendations I’ve personally seen and studied success in:

  1. Intimate Rose Vibrating Pelvic Wand
  2.  Sea Buckthorn Oil suppositories 
  3.  Heather’s Tummy fiber
  4.  Various herbs: Andrographis, Punarnava and Bhumi Amalaki

An extreme medical procedure for PPS:

Upon medical request, Xeomin injections into the puborectalis muscle, must be done by a qualified practitioner of botulinum toxin type A — with sufficient hours of experience.

Simply put, this procedure temporarily weakens or paralyzes puborectalis muscle by blocking the release of acetylcholine. This, in turn, relaxes that muscle, and makes bowel movement easier and more complete.

Xeomin® is a purified form of botulinum toxin type A, which lessens the chance of allergic reactions, compared to BOTOX®, which is composed of a mixture of proteins.

Xeomin is a neurotoxin. Please read safety study: click here and here.

Stunt Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Forever

Posted on by Diogenes II

 

Understanding gastrointestinal issues is in its infancy stage for BOTH medical doctors AND functional medicine. My gastroenterologist told me it may take another decade before her profession gets a grasp of it. And that includes bacterial overgrowth, specifically Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO). In this article, I will discuss what SIBO is, how and why it is formed, current methods used to treat it; and what we need to do to stunt it, forever!

How is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth formed?

The three macronutrients the human body needs to maintain structure and energy are: protein, carbohydrates and fats. Of these three, one stands out in terms of SIBO development. When the gastrointestinal system cannot break down this certain nutrient in the intestines — in simple terms — it rots! That nutrient is called: protein — specifically, animal protein, like beef, fish and eggs. If the small intestine cannot break down these proteins into smaller digestible molecules called amino acids, then these undigested proteins leave the small intestine, then pile up in the large intestine. The body cannot do anything with these undigested proteins and is forced to either expell them through feces or break them down into a more desirable component. That is where bacteria comes in to play. The more abundant the protein pile up, the more the bacteria needed. If these proteins become unmanageably large in accumulation, then bacteria in the large intestines will proliferate. If these proteins back up into the small intestine, from whence they came, then bacteria is forced to follow. This sequence of events is what has become known as: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth!

Why is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Formed?

If there were no bacteria in the intestines, mankind would cease to exist. Intestinal bacteria has a strange way of keeping us alive. When the large intestine breaks down the protein we consume, nitrogen is released in the form of ammonia as a byproduct. It takes ammonia/nitrogen to build protein — and it takes the release of ammonia/nitrogen to free protein into its smaller amino acid component. This ammonia under ideal circumstances is then transported to the liver via the portal vein, to be processed.

The liver then uses a process called the urea cycle to convert ammonia into urea, which is then processed by the kidneys and excreted in urine.

However, this process does not always go as planned.

If the liver is damaged, it cannot effectively process and turn ammonia into urea, leading to a buildup of ammonia in the blood — a condition that can lead to severe ammonia accumulation, called hyperammonemia. A build up of this ammonia can actually lead to brain injury, and even death!

Now comes Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth to the rescue! Bacterial Overgrowth is actually a defense mechanism the body uses to prevent injury or death from high ammonia! Instead of being called Bacterial Overgrowth, it may be more appropriately called Bacterial Necessity!

This then causes hydrogen and methane gases to raise in the small intestine and colon, to buffer excess ammonia. In fact, there are three common tests to check for SIBO:

Hydrogen dominant SIBO

Methane dominant SIBO (n.k.a. Intestinal Methanogen Overgrowth [IMO])

Hydrogen sulfide SIBO

As these names imply, hydrogen, methane and sulfide gases are produced and increased in the intestines due to bacterial, methanogen and even fungal activity. In fact, there is even Small Intestinal and Large Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth (SIFO/LIFO).

There is always a balance between bacterial and fungal ratio in the intestines just as there is in our soil.

So hydrogen is produced in the colon, but instead of being recycled back into the rest of the body as an antioxidant — which is what it should be doing — much of it is being used to fuel hydrogen dominant bacteria. Sulphate-reducing bacteria ((SRB) will use bile from the gallbladder and sulfur from our diet to produce hydrogen sulfide. Methanogens (anaerobic archaea, not bacteria) both in the small intestine and colon — often associated with bloating and constipation — turn existing carbon dioxide into methane. All of these gases are interchangeable!

Then doctors identify these excess hydrogen and methane production in the intestines to diagnose SIBO. It is called the hydrogen breath test — such as the trio-smart breath test — which introduces glucose or lactulose into the gut to stir up and determine if the levels of these gases rise unusually high.

How do doctors and functional medicine treat SIBO?

If you are diagnosed with SIBO, doctors will quickly try to treat the symptom rather than the cause. A combination of antibiotics is introduced — the most popular being Rifaximin and Neomycin. They may also prescribe Metronidazole, which systematically affects the microbiome not only of the gastrointestinal tract, but of the entire body. They may also prescribe medication such as Fluconazole to treat fungal overgrowth — a medication known for causing liver damage.

Functional medicine is not much different — they use a combination of natural antibiotics to treat the symptom rather than the cause. These include: allicin, oil of oregano, caprylic acid, monolaurin, grapefruit seed extract, pomegranate husk and a product called Atrantil, specifically designed for methane dominant SIBO.

How to stunt Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth forever?

Before even thinking about restoring microbiome, we must first make sure the back door is opened! That back door has a simple name — it is called, the anus. 

If you are chronically constipated, stunting  SIBO would be next to impossible. This is where peristalsis, the migrating motor complex (MMC) that pushes food from the small intestine to the large some every 90 minutes during fasting, and fiber, come in to play.

If your liver is damaged, stunting SIBO will also remain next to impossible, since a proper functioning liver is needed to turn ammonia into urea, for excretion by the kidneys and bladder.

If there is any congestion or chronic inflammation of the intestine, colon, urinary tract system or reproductive system (such as endometriosis), stunting SIBO permanently will also be next to impossible.

If you have chronic constipation, see: Healing Chronic Constipation and Irritable Bowel Syndrome May Be Both a Chemical and Mechanical Issue.

If there is liver damage (just assume there is!), see: Deflate Fatty Liver disease.

If there is inflammation and/or congestion, see: Out Ulcerative Colitis Fire Forever, Histamine Intolerance Defused and, other topics soon-to-be announced.

Out Ulcerative Colitis Fire Forever!

Posted on by Diogenes II

 

Science defines Ulcerative Colitis as an incurable, autoimmune, chronic, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). I have no idea what they are talking about — do you? I do agree that it is an inflammatory condition, often affecting different parts of the colon — but I have no idea what the phrase “autoimmune disease” means, and neither do they! In this article however, I will discuss that UC is much more than that and the ways to out the fire forever!

Ulcerative colitis is a devastating condition — when you hear inflammation of the rectum and colon, what that really means for some people is pain all over, abdominal cramps, loss of appetite, fever, fatigue, weight loss, bile duct scarring and intermittent bloody diarrhea! Some in desperation have tried fecal transplant from healthy donors in order to restore their own healthy microbiome. What ulcerative colitis really is is stress on fire — your stress level is so high, it’s setting the colon on fire. This could be physical, emotional or metabolic stress. When it is metabolic stress, combined with physical stress, HCL, stomach acid, is leaking into the intestines without being diluted by the bile from the gallbladder and the sodium bicarbonate from the pancreas. Both bile and sodium bicarbonate neutralizes stomach acid because they are alkaline. But in the case of ulcerative colitis, this process is greatly compromised, creating an abnormal acidic environment.

To heal ulcerative colitis is like healing histamine “intolerance “. Even microwave food may cause flare ups. Fermented foods will definitely cause flare ups. Cabbage juice will most likely cause flare ups. Eggs, dairy, onion, garlic and black pepper will cause flare ups. Even taking certain supplements will cause flare ups. Of course, toxins from hot plastic bottles and forever chemicals will cause flare ups. Vegetables should be mostly cooked…fruits should be taken away from other foods to prevent fermentation.

The hydrogen/sulfur connection

Ulcerative colitis can happen when there is a dysregulation of hydrogen and sulfur. We don’t hear about hydrogen being talked about often, nor sulfur. But hydrogen is everywhere — in stomach acid, in water, food and particularly in the colon, where it interacts with fiber and short chain fatty acids and is recycled back into the body. A dysregulation causes hydrogen to turn into the inflammatory hydrogen peroxide. Sulfur is also needed for cellular metabolism and waste clearing. There is even a medication called sulfasalazine used in UC.

So Ulcerative colitis can be compared to a volcano. The primary gases in a volcano are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), various forms of hydrogen, like hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide (SO2) — essentially the same gases involved in UC. When there is a pressure build up of gases within the crater, then there is a volcanic eruption 🌋 When there is a pressure build up of gases from toxins in the colon, then there is an Ulcerative colitis “eruption”!

A dysregulation of hydrogen and sulfur is caused by a dysfunctional gut, liver, spleen and pancreas, not able to metabolize nutrients in food properly. Thus calcium, phosphorus, copper, zinc and iron become nothing more than toxic metals, rather than the minerals they are suppose to be. Now we have inflammation of the colon and bloody diarrhea.

To heal, we need to fix the gut, liver, spleen and pancreas, and we need to make nutrients act like nutrients again.

This may be done by introducing controlled and pure hydrogen back into the body or the things that supports hydrogen production. It also includes adding sulfur without making it turn into the dreaded hydrogen sulfide.

Five great products I will recommend to do all these things are:

– Hydroxocobalamin (a B12 that contains hydrogen). It also turns hydrogen sulfide back into sulfate. For temporary use only!

– Hydra Shot by Healthy Hydration (a water machine that generates hydrogen while simultaneously removing toxins).

– Sulfur. But not just any sulfur — it must be 99.9% pure organic sulfur crystals (MSM).

People are afraid of sulfur because of sulfur sensitivity, but that is due to being low on molybdenum to break down sulfur properly. Foods high in molybdenum that you can include are: black beans, roasted sesame seeds, organic oats and durian.

– Clostridium butyricum (a bacteria that turns into SCFA and postbiotics in the colon). UC patients’ microbiome diversity is decreased by some 25% compared to healthy control. Butyrate from the bacteria listed above is the main source of energy in colonic epithelial cells, acting as a short chain fatty acid that feeds all microbiome in the colon.

– Anaerobityricum hallii (another butyrate producing bacteria, providing nourishment to the colonic cell wall and microbiome.) May break down acetate, lactate and glucose which then creates butyrate and hydrogen as the final byproducts for the colon.

 

Ulcerative Colitis is not a digestive issue

Inflammatory Bowel disease (IBD) is actually more than digestive disorders. In fact, they are not digestive disorders at all.

Hidden in the literature of science is that fact that all IBD affect somewhere else, or even started somewhere else. It is called:

Extraintestinal Manifestation (EIM)

What does “extra-” mean? Now what does “Manifestation” mean? In the case of UC, it means:

Blood!

Yes, Inflammatory Bowel diseases are blood issues — not digestive issues. That is why Ulcerative colitis is associated with anemia. Yet UC is manifested in an explicit way in gastrointestinal terms — but that does not mean it’s a gastrointestinal issue.

Ayurveda knew this all along!

That is why they emphasize herbs, to purify the blood.

It is this toxic and acidic blood, filled with micro-plastic, glyphosate, unbound iron, heavy metals and other things that are passing through many organs. That is why there is joint pain, resembling rheumatoid arthritis (or is it?); that is why there is inflammation and enlargement of the spleen, inflammation of the pancreas, liver, skin and eyes; scarring of the gallbladder and lungs. And that is why there is inflammation of the colon! An Ulcerative colitis colon can be 1000 times more acidic than normal!

There are at least six herbs ayurveda emphasizes to heal Ulcerative Colitis, namely:

Punarnava: very effective for UC and cleansing the blood and entire body

Andrographis: Andrographis paniculata acts as a bitters, which helps free the liver of stones and sludge. Gallstones are a major cause of UC.

Guduchi: reduces uric acid, and both alkalinize and detoxify the body

Manjistha: an Ayurvedic herb, will prevent the stomach from spilling undiluted HCL into the colon. It also helps alkalinize an overly acidic colon.

Turmeric: an ayurvedic herb that helps reduce unbound iron, and reduces inflammation.

Ginger: enhances the effectiveness of these other herbs.

 

Frozen or freeze dried Spirulina

As if all that wasn’t enough (or was it?), we have to add Spirulina! Spirulina acts like a sponge, mopping up toxins and anything undesirable that would foster the conditions necessary for UC to exist. While there is limited studies, Spirulina contains phycocyanin, a compound with strong anti-inflammatory effects, which may help reduce intestinal inflammation, a hallmark of UC. For temporary use only!

Where can you get frozen or freeze dried Spirulina?

SpiraVeg Spirulina

 

Raw Living Spirulina 

 

Tests to confirm Ulcerative colitis include: colonoscopy or (the less invasive) sigmoidoscopy, with tissue sample. Another reliable test is: stool calprotectin. All of these will examine and confirm the level of inflammation.

Deflate Fatty Liver disease!

Posted on by Diogenes II

 

Many people have fatty liver and don’t even know it. When someone says, “fatty liver”, most people don’t know what that means — including the person saying it! To my understanding, it means everything: fatty acids, like triglycerides, phosphatidylcholine, cholesterol esters, bilirubin, dead red blood cell remnants, iron waste and water! In other words, it means lots of junk is building up in the liver! But the biggest junk is probably triglycerides filled with toxins, which is the main source of fat storage and fat accumulation — hence the term, fatty liver.

Anyone who has fatty liver, needs to look at their ferritin. My ferritin level was once over 280.

Yes, I have had fatty liver!

I have had fatty liver since fatty liver was not even in style — back in the 1980’s when I was 10 years old! I was blood poisoned (I believe) by painful injections in the buttocks, to supposedly manage my asthma condition!

 

Ferritin affects liver health:

To be clear, ferritin protein is where the body first stores excess iron. Do you know how much ions of iron one single ferritin complex carries? Up to 4500! So if your ferritin level is 50, multiply that by 4500 irons!
Now if your ferritin is 280, multiply that by 4500 iron ions!

Do you know what fatty liver is?: so much ferritin, that it turned into hemosiderin! Hemosiderin is the antarctic of iron waste. It is a graveyard of iron and dead lysosomes stuck in the south pole — actually, I meant, liver! In other words, when the body can no longer store excess iron in the ferritin complexes, it is forced to store it in this second option: hemosiderin. This hemosiderin storage system is hard on the body, especially the liver. And, it is hard to get rid of excess iron once it’s stored as hemosiderin.

Don’t get me wrong: low ferritin can also be distressing: it means the spleen is not recycling iron properly! But that can be simply resolved by consuming copper or wholefood vitamin C!
Does anyone know how to get out of the antarctic?

 

Enzymes affect liver health:

When doctors talk about liver enzymes, they are not only talking about the familiar AsT and ALt — they are also talking about such hardly ever tested enzyme(s) as GGT [Gamma-glutamyl transferase]. Actually, most doctors probably don’t even remember what GGT is! Often high when there is toxins in the blood such as from medication or alcohol or when there is hepatitis, cirrhosis, pancreatic obstruction or bile flow obstruction, GGT insures delivery of amino acids that make the powerful antioxidant glutathione. These amino acids include: glutamate, cysteine (cystine) and glycine.

 

Protein affects liver health:

What we also need to talk about is not only the liver enzymes, but also, the proteins produced by the liver. They also tell a lot by their too high or too low levels — such proteins as serum albumin and globulins! Abnormal numbers of these proteins may signal🚦 some type of dehydration, or worse, liver dysfunction. Chronic liver disease is characterized by a fall in serum albumin concentration and a rise in serum globulins.

 

Gallbladder health is affected by liver health:

Another thing needs mentioning is not only the liver — that very large organ, but its pipeline: the gallbladder!

Many people have liver issues because the gallbladder is stuck with sludge or gallstones! Can you imagine your kitchen sink pipe clogged with chewing gum? Many people nowadays are listening to their doctors recommend having their gallbladders removed, as if gallbladder surgery was an ice-cream treat! Removing your gallbladder is the same thing as removing the sac that holds bile that is needed to digests fats.

That’s why I also look at bilirubin levels — specifically direct bilirubin, to make sure gallbladder is opened (3mm) and working properly. Too high bilirubin (a “compound” from heme, produced in the liver) means gallbladder is clogged! That’s why I use chanca piedra or bhumi amla to unclog the gall-pipe!

 

The history of fatty liver:

There was once a time when doctors would only entertain the term fatty liver if someone consumed alcohol. If you did not fit that category and still complained that you may have fatty liver, then these doctors would say, “Oh, you don’t know what you’re talking about! Stop complaining and enjoy life!” It was only after repeated and vehement complaints that science then began to realize there is fatty liver beyond alcohol fatty liver disease. They labeled it: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD.

As time went by, NAFLD became nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH. As more time went by, NASH became something that led to metabolic dysfunction -associated steatohepatitis or MASH in 2023 because, “nonalcoholic” and “fatty” seemed as if stigmatizing and trivializing the disease, they thought. In other words, science still could not make up its mind about what fatty liver disease is!

And to complicate things even more, we have another new term — i.e., liver disease caused from environmental toxins: toxicant-associated fatty liver disease (TAFLD), which can then lead to toxicant-associated steatohepatitis (TASH), which a more severe form of TAFLD.

 

Liver disease progression:

To simplify things for the purpose of this article, there are three grades of fatty liver: mild, moderate and severe, with up to 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3 of fat deposit and fat accumulation, respectively. And there are progressive stages to fatty liver:

– Simple fatty liver (fat only)

– Steatohepatitis (fat accompanied with inflammation)

– Fibrosis (chronic inflammation) 

– Cirrhosis (widespread scarring that greatly impairs liver function).


Much of this is fixable, yes. But severe fatty liver disease with cirrhosis is going to need a lot of work. Be optimistic, but do not be fooled if someone tells you, “the liver is the only organ that regenerates itself and if you cut off a part of it, it will simply grow back!” Welcome them to the real world 🌎 — the liver won’t do anything good unless you work hard enough to fix it!

 

Reverse fatty liver disease:

Luckily, nature has provided ways to accelerate reversing fatty liver disease. It is called herbs! I have studied for years and tried to find the best answers to what the best things to reverse fatty liver disease are. And I think I’ve found them.

It is not milk thistle. Milk thistle is good for liver that is already healthy. It is not burdock root either — though that can be helpful. It is not artichoke extract or swedish bitters either. Yet those can be helpful. 

The herbs that I like to focus on at reversing fatty liver are from ayurveda: kutki and Bhumi amla!

Kutki is a bitter herb that works like a mechanic, going into liver cells, and bringing them back to life. Bhumi amla is like a drainage plunger, unclogging gunk out of the gallbladder.

But there are other things necessary to accelerate reversing fatty liver disease. They are: choline and  IP6-inosotol.

Choline helps remove fat from the liver, while IP6-inositol helps remove excess iron from the liver. Excess iron is a major cause of fatty liver disease and liver inflammation! Phlebotomy through blood donation can also relieve the body of excess iron in the blood.

 

And of course, eat healthily and properly:

If you have fatty liver disease, junk food and excess sweets are a no no. Excess alcohol is a no no. Eating excess amounts of animal meat is a no no. Animal protein may raise insulin levels to intolerable levels. Excess dairy and eggs are a no no. And foods high in oxalates is a no no. I have compiled a list of the safest, most nutritious foods! If you have fatty liver, you need to load up on B vitamins, as with the choline previously mentioned, but also particularly vitamins B2 (riboflavin) and B5 (pantothenic acid) — found in organic bee pollen — to accelerate the healing process of a damaged liver. Other nutrients include magnesium, copper and phosphorus.

 

Sugar, sugar substitutes, and sugar alcohol may also contribute to fatty liver disease:

When someone says something like too much sugar causes fatty liver, I think one detail in that means, too much high fructus corn syrup and the nasty Maltodextrin that usually comes with it, contributes to fatty liver! So does aspartame. If you like sweet things, look for pure organic honey, coconut sugar, palm sugar, molasses, or even plain old cane sugar. These other sugars, such as sugar alcohols and artificial sweeteners are destroying peoples’ livers! Monk fruit (sugar) is up for debate, since it is usually combined with other sugar alcohols to make it taste like sugar.


So, what should you do?:

– If possible, get an ultrasound for the liver.

– Get a blood test checking for:

– Ferritin: should be less than 75

– Ast and ALt should be less than 20

– GGT: should be less than 30

– Serum albumin: should be between 4.1 and 4.8

– Globulin: should be between 2.2 and 2.8

– Direct bilirubin: should be less than 0.3

Herbs:

– Kutki 

– Bhumi amla 

Supplements:

– Choline 

– IP6- Inositol 

Procedure:

– Phlebotomy 

Foods

Eat healthy, limiting alcohol, sweets and excess animal protein. Pay special attention to food containing vitamins B2 and B5. Also magnesium, copper and phosphorus rich food are beneficial to help heal a fatty liver.