The 1-Cup Defense Against Fatty Liver That Every American Needs
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Drink one cup of this a day to support your liver health!
Fat builds up in your liver over time as a result of overconsumption, especially overconsumption of sugar or alcohol.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a major problem. Almost 50% of Americans, let alone people worldwide, are dealing with this issue.
There are five main things that you can drink one cup of each day to support your liver health, so you can get a little variation depending on which ones you like more.
In this blog, I’ll show you the research behind them, their effectiveness, and how just one cup a day of these remedies can help support liver health.
1. Coffee
Coffee has a natural ability to help the liver because of its impact on the metabolic process.
It’s going to put you in an optimized state that will stoke the fat-burning mode of your body, including burning the fat deposits in your liver.
You want to make sure that your coffee is organic.
The coffee that I make is organic and has moringa blended into the coffee. Those two are powerful antioxidants.
Organic coffee doesn’t contain pesticides, so it doesn’t have molds and chemicals that are bogging the liver down.
Coffee also has a thermogenic effect of optimizing weight-burning, specifically burning up fat in the system.
So if you’re already a coffee drinker, just increase the quality of it.
2. Green Tea
Non-coffee drinkers can look for green tea. A cup of green tea has an ample amount of catechins.
Catechins have been shown to improve liver function and prevent the deposit and the buildup of fat in the liver.
Drinking a cup of this a day is a very simple thing to do.
I would also get this organic. Make sure that the bag that it comes in is not bleached. That way you’re not taking in chemicals that your liver’s going to have to fight.
Green tea also has a lot of antioxidants.
It does help the metabolism burn at a higher level, so you’re losing a little bit more weight and fat, especially in that liver.
3. Milk Thistle
Milk thistle, also called silymarin, has been used for over 2000 years to help bile duct issues and to support the liver.
Milk thistle is like a shield for your liver. It’s high in compounds that actually protect the liver.
It’s also said that milk thistle has antioxidants that actually promote liver regeneration.
Even if you’ve been in a bad state for a really long time, milk thistle would be the key to help support your liver.
It’s going to reduce the inflammation in the liver.
This is especially beneficial if you have an alcohol problem or if you occasionally drink socially.
Milk thistle should go into your regimen. My favorite way to get it is through a cup of coffee.
I have milk thistle in my collagen. My collagen also has a multivitamin and glucomannan, which supports normal blood sugar levels.
Every morning in my coffee, I’m getting collagen blended together with healthy fats like butter, coconut oil, or MCT oil.
It’s essentially a nutrient bomb that has the milk thistle and coffee that’s going to benefit my liver.
That’s my breakfast.
I also do some prolonged fasting where I’m not eating until either noon or even sometimes nighttime, which is helping the liver.
So every single day, I’m putting in liver detoxifiers and entering defatting mode.
Even if I mess up on vacation sometimes, I have that regimen. A cup of coffee with milk thistle helps me recover.
4. Lemon Water
Take a lemon and squeeze the whole thing into an 8-12 ounce glass of water and drink it. Don’t drink the seeds if you can help it.
That lemon is chock-full of antioxidants and vitamin C that help promote the production of glutathione in your body.
Why is that important?
Glutathione is the street sweeper of your body, and its job is to suck up chemicals and free radicals and get them out of your system.
This will protect your liver from that chemical burn.
A lemon is going to neutralize a lot of the chemicals inside of your liver that are causing fatty liver problems in the first place.
There are a lot of mornings where I’ll have my coffee with milk thistle with a side of fresh lemon water.
This is a great one-two gut punch to get after your liver.
Clean out your liver and get it ready for the day every single morning with fresh-squeezed lemon water.
5. Apple Cider Vinegar
A tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar (ACV) in water is incredibly beneficial for the blood sugar inside of your body, the accumulation of fat in your liver, and the burning of fat.
ACV has been shown to stoke the metabolic fire in your system, but it can also be used if you’re eating a higher amount of sugar.
That’s what’s causing your liver to get fatty. Too much fructose, too much sugar, and too much alcohol going into the system.
If you are having those issues, one way to control the impact that the sugary food or carbohydrate has on your system is to drink ACV before the meal.
I encourage a lot of people to either take a capsule of my ACV or drink a capful of it before a meal.
Don’t take an ACV gummy because those often contain sugar. You’d be taking ACV with sugar, which completely defeats the purpose.
Taking ACV before a meal has been linked to a lower carbohydrate and insulin response in the body, and it’s those responses that drive fatty liver in the first place.
There was a recent TikTok experiment by a diabetic who actually looked at three different scenarios.
Scenario number one was eating a slice of pepperoni pizza that spiked the blood sugar up past the 120 line. Normally, blood sugar should be below 100.
The significance here is that this is fatty liver-forming mode; it went high into the red zone.
It stayed up that way for several hours before the body was able to deal with it and come back down.
Then they added in some cleaner food, some fiber in the form of a salad, along with the pizza. You can see the numbers still spiked, but it wasn’t as high.
The salad went in first, and then when the pizza was eaten, the body was able to digest with some of those fibers which brought it back down.
These spikes can really mess with your energy, but the salad offset the amount of time spent in fatty liver-forming mode.
Then they recorded what would happen if you took ACV before the pizza.
They saw a much lower spike in the sugars: it was almost half of the spike that was caused by only eating a slice of pizza. Just by putting in ACV!
Adding in ACV could help prevent those spikes that impact fatty liver formation.
It also helps detoxify the liver so that it’s better able to break down the fat that’s already there.
Adding in ACV is easy, but it does not taste good. If you struggle with the taste, you can try a couple of the recipes to help it taste better in my video, or try my capsules.
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