Hey, I'm Barbara O'Neill and if you're over 50 and feeling constantly tired, struggling with weight around your middle, or dealing with sluggish digestion, your liver might be the culprit. The good news? You can fix your fatty liver in just two weeks by eating or drinking this simple remedy. It's easier than you think. Let's dive in and get your liver back on track.
And as a special thank you for joining me today, we're giving away 100 free copies of my best-selling book to subscribers. So if you haven't already make sure to hit that subscribe button and leave a comment about why you want to win my best-selling book. But this morning we're going to be looking at your liver and your liver is the organ that is orchestrating the detox. The liver is often called the project manager because everything that goes into the body goes first to the liver and everything that comes Out of the body comes out under the jurisdiction of the liver. So what we're going to first of all do have a look at what goes into the body and what the liver does with it.
So we're going to have a look at foods. And never in the history of mankind have human beings eaten so many carbohydrates. I think you'll agree with me.
We've become high-carbohydrate consumers. You just go into any supermarket and there's usually a whole aisle devoted to bread, a whole aisle devoted to cereal. Almost a whole aisle devoted to pasta.
There's certainly a large section devoted to cakes. Now, I'm just going to say cakes, etc., because this takes into consideration croissants, muffins, cookies, biscuits. We call what you call cookies, we call those biscuits. Also another high carbohydrate is pizza, rice, rice is another carbohydrate, potatoes. and products made with potatoes abound.
There's your French fries, your chips, you call them, potato crisps or chips. And then last and certainly least in nutritive value is the pure crystallised acid extracted from the sugarcane plant. Would you agree with me? But if you live on the farm, this is not fast food. All this has to be made.
What's the fast food down on the farm? Fruits and vegetables. That's your best fast food shop is your fruit and vegetable shop.
All of these foods in the gastrointestinal tract break down to a singular structure called glucose. And glucose gets absorbed out of the gut into the blood, goes on the M1 main highway portal vein straight to the liver. And then the liver determines what happens to that glucose.
And the first... first place it goes is to the cell so the glucose goes into the cell under the action of insulin it goes through a 20-step pathway and that 20-step pathway gives us two units of energy the end result of the 20-step pathways a chemical form of glucose called pyruvate and pyruvate is the chemical form of glucose that gets fed into what's often called the powerhouse of the cell because this eight-step pathway delivers to us 36 units of energy. The focus is on the liver, the body's detox commander.
Everything that enters is filtered through this organ, but here's the harsh truth. Our diets are killing it. Supermarkets are stocked with carbohydrate-heavy foods like bread, pasta, and sugar-filled treats, overwhelming the liver with glucose.
Most of it gets converted into fat, leading to the silent epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. People don't realize that pizza, chips, and even rice are flooding the world. the liver with more than it can handle. The liver, which should be managing detox, is instead drowning in fat.
Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, give the liver a break, promoting detox rather than fat build-up. It's time to stop sabotaging our bodies with carbs and opt for natural foods that heal. The liver can recover, but only if we act now by embracing real nutritious food. You see on this high carbohydrate diet the poor old pancreas is getting screamed at all day, more insulin, more insulin, more insulin.
But on this diet the pancreas is getting a break and it starts to revive. People with high cholesterol levels came back to normal. And what are we told we've got to do if we want to get cholesterol levels down?
Stop the meat, butter, cream, cheese, eggs. Am I right? Yeah, and the drug, that's true.
Here's the cholesterol levels were coming down. Atkins scratched his head. His cancer patients were going into remission.
Do you remember yesterday, and I do admit I am guilty of information overload, but cancer cells consume 15 times the glucose of any other cell. So when you drastically stop these high glucose foods, the cancer cells can actually self destruct when they're not getting the glucose they need. What Atkins discovered is that these three food groups are the essential food groups. What does essential mean?
Body doesn't make, you've got to put it in. Fibre is essential because our gut needs to be swept every day. That's what fibre does.
Essential because it's in the fibre part of the food that you'll often get a concentration of your nutrients. Did you know that the highest concentration of nutrients in the potato is just under the skin? And when you peel your potatoes you lose that. We're very thankful to Jamie Oliver who got people to leave the skins on their potatoes.
You see on this high carb diet the pancreas is constantly being yelled at for more insulin. It's exhausted. But when we shift away from these glucose heavy foods the pancreas finally gets a break and starts to recover. People with high cholesterol, their levels dropped and guess what? They weren't avoiding buttercream or eggs.
We've been told to fear these foods, but it's the carbs that are the real villain. Cholesterol came down and even cancer patients saw their tumours shrink. Why? Because cancer cells thrive on glucose, 15 times more than normal cells.
Cut off the glucose supply and the cancer starts. to starve. The real essential foods?
Butter, eggs, cream. They don't spike your insulin and they support overall health. Fibre is crucial too, sweeping the gut clean and delivering nutrients.
nutrients. Even something as simple as eating potatoes with the skin boosts nutrition. The truth? Fatty liver thrives on sugar, not healthy fats. Whereas dandelion, lion is the king of the jungle and I think dandelion is the king of the herbs in the garden.
Because dandelion is a bitter herb. If you were to bite it and eat it, it's very very very bitter and you've heard the old saying sweet to the mouth bitter to the stomach sweet to the mouth bitter to the stomach think of that with sugar sugar is sweet to the mouth but very bitter to the stomach whereas your bitter herbs like dandelion they're bitter to the mouth but very sweet to the stomach because it's the bitter herbs that stimulate the liver to release its digestive enzymes and also the bitterness causes the stomach to release its digestive enzymes to dandelion is the liver herb your liver is a recoverable organ it's the only organ in the body that has the ability to regrow or recover that's why they can do a liver transplant on just a little bit of liver and the liver will regrow And I'm so glad that God made the liver a recoverable organ because some of the things that people are doing to their body, in ignorance, mostly granted, if we didn't have a recoverable organ, some of us wouldn't even live past our 20s. But God in his great wisdom and mercy made the liver to be a recoverable organ. And these herbs help stimulate the liver to regrow and to recover. Cancer cannot get a hold on the body if the liver is not in good condition.
as working in optimum performance. Now how can we eat this? How can we eat the dandelion?
Well there's a recipe in Europe. A friend of mine went through Europe travelling for a while and she stayed at some of her relatives because she is German descent and she said that they made a recipe for dandelion and they said that it was a very good recipe. Make this wonderful hot potato salad. They cook the potatoes and then they chop them up hot into hunks and then they chop up heaps of dandelion and then they put lots of olive oil, crushed garlic and salt.
Just imagine that. Doesn't that sound yum? Now those smooth, blandish potatoes covered with the delicious olive oil that makes anything taste nice. And that also calms down the garlic and it also calms down the bitterness of the dandelion.
So every mouthful you eat is mostly potato with that lovely oil on it and salt and a little garlic and a little bit of dandelion. It's actually delicious. It sort of balances out to a delicious hot potato salad.
Now this lady suffered from iron problems. I had no iron challenges when I was in Europe. She said, I think it was because I was eating the hot potato.
hot potato dandelion salad every day. Now what you can also do, you can buy the dandelion root that's been roasted, so that's like a dandelion coffee. And you can buy a delicious drink in the health food shop, and we sell it at Misty, called chai dandelion. A lot of people will drink chai tea, but the tea of course has the tannin and the caffeines in it.
But chai dandelion is a delicious drink. A lot of people don't like herb teas because they say they're tasteless and bland. Not chai dandelion.
Chai dandelion is a delicious drink and it has a whole lot of herbs and spices with it to give it that beautiful flavour. So you can have the fresh dandelion scattered through your salads or you can make your hot potato salad with lots of dandelion in it, the leaves, or you can buy the dandelion root roasted. and have that as a hot drink.
Let me tell you, dandelion is the king of herbs, especially for your liver. It's bitter to the mouth but incredibly sweet to the stomach, and it's exactly what your liver needs to recover from fatty liver. We've been brainwashed into thinking sugar-filled foods are the way, but they're silently destroying your liver. Dandelion, on the other hand, stimulates the liver to release essential digestive enzymes, promoting detox and regeneration.
Now, how do you consume it? You can scatter fresh dandelion leaves in your salads, balancing bitterness with other greens, or for a powerful tonic, try roasted dandelion root as a tea. It's a fantastic liver cleanser. It stimulates bile production, which helps the liver break down fats, flushing out toxins. And you might be surprised to see that the first alkaline food I'm putting up here is the humble lemon.
And you might say, no, the lemon's acid. It is. And it's acid where it should be. There's only one part in the body that should be acid.
You know where that is? Stomach. It must be acid.
If someone says I've got a very acid stomach, I say, praise God. Because if you don't have an acid stomach, you can't break your proteins down. How do you know it's acid? Well, it's sore. It's, well, you shouldn't feel it.
I can't feel it. It means you haven't got a thick mucosa lining on the stomach. We're going to look at water tomorrow and that's made up of water.
Maybe it's because you're dehydrated. Remember, you've got to investigate. Now, the lemon is acid where it should be. That's why you'll find that most of our salad dressings have lemon in them.
But when it is broken down in the gut and the minerals are dispersed and absorbed into the blood and thus to the tissues, it has an alkaline effect because the lemon is high. in the alkaline minerals which is sodium and potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron. These are the alkaline minerals and the lemon is high in the alkaline minerals. Don't you love the lemon?
Every home should have a lemon tree and if you're in a unit you can have a lemon tree in a pot on your veranda. And one liver herb that many people don't realise it is, is the lemon. So a great drink in the morning.
morning, remember you wake up, have your water, have another bit of water and then when you come near the kitchen, have the kettle boiled and put juice of a lemon in some water with a little bit of boiling water on top and have a warm lemon drink. Fantastic liver tonic early in the morning. Also the lemon is an internal alkalizer so that will do a few things too.
One liver herb that many people don't realize is incredibly powerful. is the humble lemon. In the morning I always recommend starting with a simple lemon drink. After you wake up have your water, then boil the kettle and squeeze half a lemon into a cup with some warm water, not boiling. This makes for a fantastic liver tonic.
Lemons are more than just acidic, they're powerful internal alkalizers. They help balance the body's pH which is crucial for liver health. Bile is essential for breaking down fats in the liver, so when you drink lemon tea daily, you're giving your liver the tools it needs to recover and function properly. It's simple, natural and it works. Now we're going to have a look at ginger.
Ginger can be used internally and ginger can be used externally. externally. Internally, it's an anti-inflammatory, but it's probably mostly known for its anti-nausea effect.
If you buy car sickness or seasickness tablets, it's compressed ginger. Now, the easiest way I think to have this is to grate it. So you grate it on that little grater and you'll grate about a teaspoon and you put it in a little teapot and pour boiling water on it and let it sit probably 10 minutes. Now that might be too strong for you, but I love it. I love it like that.
If it's too strong, you just water it down a little bit. If someone's very cold, maybe they've been caught out in the cold or something and it's very hard to warm them up, give them a cup of hot ginger tea and it will warm them up very nicely. So it can be used for nausea.
It can be used to warm a person if they're chilled or cold. And you saw too, it is one of the recipes in the Flubomb. I was at a function, it was a health seminar, and in the break everyone went and had their herb teas and there was a girl with a tiny little grater grating ginger. And I said, ah, ginger.
She said, I'm an entertainer, I'm a singer. She said, I was in Greece last year and I lost my voice and a little Greek lady made me a hot ginger tea. She said, I sung that night.
So she said, I travel with my little grater everywhere. where I go. So very nice on a sore throat or horse throat. Now let's talk about ginger. Ginger can be used both internally and externally but it's best known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-nausea properties.
If you've ever had car sickness or seasickness those tablets you take they're just compressed ginger. I love to grate about a teaspoon of fresh ginger, put it in a teapot and pour boiling water over it. Let it steep for about 10 minutes. Strong but powerful.
If it's too intense, you can always dilute it. Ginger tea is fantastic for warming the body, especially if someone's been caught in the cold. But here's where it gets interesting. Ginger's anti-inflammatory power also helps the liver, especially in cases of fatty liver.
When you drink ginger tea regularly, it stimulates bile flow, which helps break down fats in the liver, reducing fat buildup. Plus, it fights the inflammation that comes with fatty liver. A simple cup of ginger tea can do wonders for liver health.
and overall detoxification. We are all so different. We're all a combination of birth, genetics, experiences, and that's why I believe everyone should be their own doctor.
There is another herb that... you can take on the inside to get inflammation down and that's turmeric. Turmeric's a very powerful herb internally to get the inflammation down.
How often or how much? So a teaspoon three times a day. If it's the fresh turmeric you would triple that dose.
If it's dried then you bring it back. Now let's dive into turmeric. This herb is incredibly powerful for reducing inflammation internally, and it's a must for anyone dealing with chronic conditions, including fatty liver.
I recommend a teaspoon of turmeric three times a day. If you're using fresh turmeric, you'd triple the amount compared to dried. Turmeric isn't just about reducing inflammation, it supports heart health, improves digestion, and protects against oxidative stress. But here's the controversial part.
Fatty liver thrives in an inflamed environment, and turmeric, especially its active ingredient curcumin, helps combat that. Curcumin fights inflammation at the cellular level, which is crucial because chronic inflammation contributes to liver damage and even cancer. Consuming turmeric as tea is simple.
Just boil water, add a teaspoon of turmeric, a pinch of black pepper to boost absorption and let it steep. This tea not only fights fatty liver but also boosts overall wellness by detoxifying and protecting the liver. So there you have it, just a few simple natural remedies that can fix fatty liver in as little as two weeks.
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