This is one of the WORST things you can eat

I've been seeing something disturbing in my clinic recently I've been seeing lots of children coming in who have type 2 diabetes from diet or even non-alcoholic fatty liver and historically this is something highly unusual especially in a child usually this is after Decades of insulin resistance where we're starting to see type 2 diabetes that is but now we're seeing it even in children and non-alcoholic F liver is typically a much further Downstream consequence of this sort of pattern now in this video I wanted to discuss what are some of the causes of this and what I think is the single worst thing you can consume that is probably leading to this hey guys I'm Dr Alex hin board licensed acupuncturist and doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book master of the day so let's jump in here so this is a sort of curious epidemic that I'm seeing in my clinic in my practice what's interesting is that these are people who are even having not only non-alcoholic fatty liver but I've even seen people come in with liver curosis leading to liver failure from their diet you know historically you only see this typically in Alcoholics being the largest demographic but you're seeing this from people who have never had alcohol I've seen a few patients who've come in they're not drinkers never been big drinkers not smokers but eat a terrible diet and are literally coming in with not just type 2 diabetes not just gallbladder removals not just non-alcoholic fatty liver but liver ceros leading to even liver transplants and it's purely from a dietary point of view now the first time I heard this I thought it was shocking because I was surprised these particular patients there was three in particular I was surprised they were not heavy drinkers but when I had heard about this and began researching it more it is something that is becoming more and more common and it got me thinking what is causing this and what is this epidemic here now what I found was that typically these people had one thing in common they had consumed high amounts of calories from liquid soft drinks this is something we are going to discuss here a little bit more a lot of these patients that also came in they were wondering what was the root cause of this fatty liver how did I get fatty liver how did I get my gallbladder removed why did it get so diseased what was the problem there why did I have so much acid reflux why did I gain all this weight and to answer those questions I've recently created a free root cause quiz which is pretty comprehensive it's like N9 or 10 pages it goes into the dominant symptoms I'm seeing what patterns or organ function dysfunction they're related to from a traditional Chinese medicine point of view and you can go ahead and score yourself and on top of that we also hyperlinks to a lot of our top videos to sell self treat regarding those symptoms so the whole thing's free it's the first link below the video I'd highly recommend you checking it out because it's a pretty good resource to get in the General Diagnostic ballpark here now from nutritional Chinese medicine view what organs are mostly being affected when we talk about non-alcoholic fatty liver when we describe the common progression you see from low-grade GI problems to Serious GI problems let's just say fatty liver what I commonly see is this progression it starts off with what your acupuncturist might call spleen Chi deficiency this is an issue with the pancreas the stom stom digestive enzymes and often lower stomach acid levels these are people who often eating heavy or eating a standard American diet it's too much for the body to process they start off by getting bloating indigestion maybe a little bit of weight gain and then they start getting acid reflux so once that is enough that's too much they start to get acid reflux and to me the dead ringer that the gallbladder is now having a problem is that you're having regular acid reflux bitterness or sourness in the mouth and you're getting I mean the worst would be you're getting distension pressure pain or golf ladder attacks ultimately that once you've had one or two gallbladder attacks usually when you go to the ER they're going to recommend a you know cystectomy take out the gallbladder typically this is very preventable from a Chinese medicine point of view with formulas we have dozens of case studies eventually I'm going to start publishing them here on video so you can see this localized deficiency from typically poor diet leads to a localized stagnation in the gallbladder when you're having gallbladder issues from my point of view is liver issues are not far off whether it's just fatty liver or it's something else so you could conceptualize fatty liver almost like the development of just abdominal fat in general it's the garbage from the digestive system that the body is shunting to be placed somewhere you've thrown in way too much food and way too much of the wrong food and it's almost like this fermenting nasty soup and the body's like what what do I do with all this what do I do so blood sugar goes up insulin resistance diabetes body fat accumulation weight gain almost always there's a gallbladder or liver issue going on at the same time but you could visualize fatty liver from a patho mechanism point of you as almost being like the garbage from the digestive system what Chinese medicine calls the middle burner that is now now being dumped elsewhere to store the liver is one of those areas that it gets stored and body fat is another area that it gets stored now let's jump into a bit of the research on specifically sugary drinks and the link to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease one study found that there's an increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with sugary beverage consumption they found that high consumption of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with the higher prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver and they found that individuals who consumed more than one drink a day had significantly higher risk of this compared to people who didn't another one was linking fructose intake to liver fat this study found that this is in the American journal of clinical nutrition found that high fructose consumption prevalent in sodas and other sugary beverages contributes to increased liver fat and fibrosis a third study was done on children and Adolescence this study done in the Journal of Pediatrics found that there's a strong association between high intake of sugary drinks and the presence of fatty liver disease even in young people which is highly abnormal another study linked sugary drinks to non-alcoholic fatty liver they found that it increased insulin resistance as well as inflammation which are key factors in the development or pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver I'm going to stop saying that it's a big word the final study was a longitudinal study long period of time they found that higher consumption of sugar sweeten beverages was associated with an increased risk just in general and that reducing sugary drinks as an individual intervention was a very very effective preventive measure in traditional Chinese medicine there are formulas that we use to treat it you know the legal Le I've got to be careful about saying treat prevent and cure God forbid the FDA and comes to find me but you should know that for example there's a study done it's called freeze-dried Sunan powder can urate a high-fat diet induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease what they found was that they randomized groups of mice one group of mice they fed a high fat unlimited diet the other group they fed the high fat unlimited diet and gave them a formula we would traditionally use to treat this here's what they found they found that compared to the overall fat group the mice reading the high fat Chow the formula group had decreased body weight decreased liver index decreased visceral fat as well as lower triglycerides and also measures of certain liver enzymes that would be a problem if they were high consuming this formula while they ate a crappy diet it actually prevented or minimized the development of fatty liver which is kind of cool when you think about it but these are the common formulas we use clinically so one of them is called sisan so just some thoughts about this little epidemic that I've been seeing lately it's concerning it's only going to get worse it is certainly a disease of affluence right in our modern processed food culture but again don't forget if you're curious where certain symptoms are coming from click this little card here because it has a free quiz I've put together it's like 10 pages long it's really good on top of that there's another great video on this exact topic from TCM point of view right up here