Fatty Liver (Diet Proven to Reverse It) NAFLD

Summary

In this enlightening video, Dr. Ken Berry explores the revolutionary research proving that a low-carb diet can effectively reverse non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), impacting over four billion people globally. Dr. Berry reviews a groundbreaking study conducted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, involving 32 children with NAFLD. This study compared the impacts of low-carb and low-fat diets over eight weeks, revealing significantly more fat reduction in the liver with a low-carb diet. The findings challenge conventional advice of calorie restriction and suggest a paradigm shift in managing and reversing fatty liver disease.

Highlights

• A staggering 4 billion people suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease globally. 🌍
• Traditional advice for fatty liver often fails 99% because it promotes unsustainable calorie restriction. 🚫
• Exciting new research highlights low-carb diets as highly effective for liver fat reduction. 📉
• The studied low-carb diet led to a 32% reduction in liver fat compared to just 1% from low-fat diets. 🍽️
• Both diet groups maintained their muscle mass, debunking fears linked to low-carb consumption. 💪

Key Takeaways

• Discover why a low-carb diet is superior to low-fat for reversing fatty liver! 🍏
• Calorie restriction isn't the solution to fatty liver disease—learn what is. 🎯
• Find out how a recent study busts myths about fat consumption and liver health. 🥑
• Understand the huge global impact of NAFLD and what can be done. 🌎
• Learn how to maintain muscle mass while losing liver fat effectively. 💪

Overview

Fatty liver disease affects a staggering portion of the global population, but recent insights offer new hope. Dr. Ken Berry shares exciting research findings from the University of Alabama that demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of a low-carb diet in reversing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Contrary to long-standing beliefs about calorie restriction, this dietary approach provides a sustainable path to reducing liver fat.

The eight-week study scrutinized low-carb versus low-fat diets among children with NAFLD, revealing that those on a low-carb regimen experienced drastic liver fat reduction. There was no calorie restriction, ensuring weight maintenance while still proving the science-backed benefits of reducing carbohydrates for liver health.

This pivotal study not only underscores a paradigm shift in approaching fatty liver issues but also challenges established dietary guidelines. Dr. Berry emphasizes sharing these findings widely to educate about effective management of NAFLD, highlighting the necessity for a collective shift in how dietary advice is given and followed worldwide.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Fatty Liver Disease In this chapter, Dr. Ken Berry, a family physician, discusses the widespread issue of fatty liver disease, affecting over four billion people globally. He highlights that both children and adults can suffer from this condition, and it is not limited to alcoholic causes, hence the term non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Importantly, Dr. Berry mentions that there is now a proven diet that can reverse this disease, which will be the focus of the discussion.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Fatty Liver Disease in Children The chapter focuses on the pressing issue of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children, which affects 40% of obese kids and is the most common chronic liver condition among them. It aims to provide valuable information and techniques to help reverse the disease in children.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Traditional Advice and Its Failures The chapter titled 'Traditional Advice and Its Failures' discusses the common advice given for managing fatty liver disease, which typically involves increasing physical activity and reducing calorie intake. However, the chapter highlights that this traditional guidance is largely ineffective, with a failure rate of 99%. The argument is made that such advice essentially equates to recommending starvation, and there is no substantial research supporting its efficacy in treating fatty liver disease.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Current Treatment Options The chapter 'Current Treatment Options' delves into the ongoing challenge of treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). It highlights the absence of FDA-approved drugs for NAFLD and stresses that no pharmaceutical cure is currently anticipated. This reality has led to frustration among healthcare providers dealing with both pediatric and adult NAFLD patients. The chapter suggests the importance of reversing NAFLD through means other than medication, given the lack of effective drug treatments in the foreseeable future.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Introduction to New Study The chapter discusses the growing acceptance of bariatric surgery, specifically gastric bypass surgery, as a standard treatment for individuals with fatty liver disease. However, the chapter introduces a different clinically proven method supported by substantial clinical experience and recent research. This alternative approach offers an effective solution for managing fatty liver disease besides the standard surgical intervention.
• 02:30 - 04:00: Details of the Study The chapter 'Details of the Study' discusses the widespread issue of fatty liver disease, affecting over 4 billion people globally. The speaker urges viewers to share a video to raise awareness about the disease. Despite the significant number of affected individuals, there is a surprising lack of randomized trials available to address this condition. The focus is on increasing understanding and action towards this global health issue.
• 04:00 - 06:00: Study Results and Analysis The chapter titled 'Study Results and Analysis' discusses a groundbreaking study conducted by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers. This study is significant because, prior to this, there had been no well-performed human studies addressing the specific problem in question. The video mentions the importance of this study and promises to delve into its findings. It also hints at practical applications of the study results that viewers can use, backed by the narrator's 20 years of clinical experience.
• 06:00 - 08:00: Implications of the Study The chapter 'Implications of the Study' discusses a study conducted on 32 children aged 9 to 17 who were diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). These children were all overweight or obese, and the focus was on how dietary factors contributed to their condition. The results are applicable in a clinical setting, providing immediate strategies for mitigating fatty liver disease, highlighting the direct impact of diet on liver health for the pediatric population.
• 08:00 - 09:00: Conclusion and Call to Action The study randomized children into two dietary groups: a low-carbohydrate diet group and a low-fat diet group. The low-carb diet comprised 25% carbohydrates, 25% protein, and 50% fat, which some may argue is not sufficiently low-carb. The low-fat diet contained 55% carbohydrates and 25% fat. This study highlights the importance of dietary choices in children's health. The conclusion emphasizes reviewing the effectiveness of these dietary plans and encourages taking actionable steps to optimize children's diets for better health outcomes.

Fatty Liver (Diet Proven to Reverse It) NAFLD Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hey this is dr. ken berry family physician and I'm so excited to make this video for you over four billion people on this planet suffer from fatty liver disease non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and there is now a proven diet that will reverse fatty liver disease and that's what we're going to talk about in this video so many people think that fatty liver disease either in children or in adults is just something
• 00:30 - 01:00 that you're cursed with you have no choice in the matter you're just stuck with that currently 40 percent of obese children have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease it is the most common chronic liver disease in children now huge deal and so I'm so excited to bring you this information that's going to help you either reverse your fatty liver disease or to help your child reverse their fatty liver disease with this proven technique as you may
• 01:00 - 01:30 know the typical advice for fatty liver disease is to move more eat less restrict your calories or burn more calories than you take in this is the standard advice for people with fatty liver although it almost never works there's no research to back that recommendation up it fails in 99% of people who tried because basically what they're telling you to do is to starve
• 01:30 - 02:00 yourself for the rest of your life and no mammal can do that not even you there's no drug currently that is FDA approved for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and there's not a drug on the horizon and so this is excellent in from information for you to be able to reverse your fatty liver disease now most health care providers who take care of patients with fatty liver disease either children or adults have become so flustered by the lack of results that their
• 02:00 - 02:30 recommendations get that bariatric surgery gastric bypass surgery is quickly becoming standard of care for people with fatty liver disease and that is terrible in this video I'm going to explain to you a method that is not only clinically proven in thousands of clinic hours by both me and other low-carb doctors but now has research-based proof to show that it works so if you know someone with fatty liver disease whether it's an adult or a
• 02:30 - 03:00 child then please please consider sharing this video with them you're welcome to share this video in your groups on your page anywhere Instagram Twitter I don't care as long as we can help the four billion people on this planet who suffer from meatless fatty liver disease that's my goal now with over 4 billion people on the planet suffering from this dangerous condition fatty liver you would think that we would have multiple randomized trials
• 03:00 - 03:30 that were well performed in humans to figure out what's causing this and to reverse it well surprise surprise there hasn't there's not one until now until now the University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have done a study in the moment and most of this video is going to be about that study and what it showed and then how you can immediately take what they found in this study and what I found in my 20 years of clinical research or a clinical experience in the
• 03:30 - 04:00 clinic and you can apply that immediately to your life to start to reverse your fatty liver so what they did is they took 32 children human children not rats not dogs not peace humans between the ages of 9 and 17 years of age who had verified fatty liver disease now this is not from alcohol or acetaminophen overdose this is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease just from their diets all of these children were overweight if not obese
• 04:00 - 04:30 because those go hand in hand kids they randomized these kids to either eat a low-carb diet or a low-fat diet the low-carb diet the macros broke down is 25 percent carb which I would consider not low-carb enough 25% protein and 50% fat that's what half the kids got randomly and then the other half the kids got a high low fat diet which consisted of 55% carbohydrates 25%
• 04:30 - 05:00 protein and 25% or 20% fat so basically it was a low carb diets versus a low fat diet now which one do you think did the most and reverse the most of the fat out of these kids livers you might be surprised to watch this to the end and find out so they did this for eight weeks and for the first two weeks of the study they actually bought the groceries for the kids although all the kids and
• 05:00 - 05:30 their family had access to registered dieticians they got routine appointments with the dietician they got all kinds of education on what to eat what not C they gave them meal plans and so they made it very clear on the on the high-fat diet or the low carb diet this is what you need to eat this is what you need to avoid and then also the same goes for the low fat diet they said this is what you need to eat this is what you need to avoid and they made it very clear to both groups and remember these kids were randomized into Group A or group b
• 05:30 - 06:00 nobody knew where they were going to wind up so there was no researcher bias that was able to get into this study like it is so easy for the bias to get into observational studies both groups and then so for the first two weeks both groups were given groceries one group was given low carb groceries and other low-fat groceries and then for the last six weeks they bought their own groceries but they still had access to the registered dieticians explaining to them what they need to do at four weeks
• 06:00 - 06:30 in they did a food diarrhea three-day food diaries so that the researchers are able to tell yep this kids still on track they're still eating the proper diet that we've set them up we've randomized them to eat both groups were told this is very important both groups were told to avoid junk food to avoid just processed crap and carbs to avoid soft drinks and so both groups were avoiding junk food that's very important so even the low-fat group they weren't
• 06:30 - 07:00 eating the standard American crap they were still eating whole fruits whole vegetables and lean meats you got that so that's very important because a lot of people say oh well yeah you compare low-carb with real whole food to somebody eating the standard American junk obviously that's going to be better but both of these groups were eating real Whole Foods so now let me tell you what this study actually looked at we measured and so they took all these measurements I'm about to tell you that baseline before the study began and then
• 07:00 - 07:30 they took all these again at eight weeks after the study finished and they did these studies in both groups so on both groups before the study started they got a magnetic resonance imaging of their abdomen this is by far the gold standard to look at fatty liver ultrasounds good but Mr is better and so both groups got a NMR the abdomen looking specifically at fatty liver how much fat was in the liver both groups got a DEXA body composition
• 07:30 - 08:00 scan both at the beginning and at the end week mark both groups got lab work including a fasting glucose a fasting insulin a lipid panel and an HF CRP and the results of that are also recorded in the conclusions of this study which is very interesting they both both groups had their home iír or it's a calculated measure of insulin resistance calculated at the beginning and in eight weeks and then they had the resting energy expenditure calculated at the beginning
• 08:00 - 08:30 and it ain't weights because the second big point about this study is that there was no calorie restriction in either group what they did is I did an re and they just they tried to figure out for this kid how many calories do they need today to maintain their weight so there was no calorie restriction this is enough calories this is the calories you were eating before this is the same amount of calories and the calories were the same in both groups so there was no
• 08:30 - 09:00 calorie restriction in either arm hugely important for the conclusions of this study so you with me so far okay now let's talk about what the of this study word I think there are there exactly what I expected them to be but I think many health care providers and many parents and many people who suffer from fatty liver will be blown away by the findings of this study so at the end of the eight-week study when they crunched all the data here's what they found the low-carb group lost 2.4
• 09:00 - 09:30 percent of their body fat the low-fat group lost 0.4% okay the low-carb group lost 5.5 percent of their total fat mass in their total body by DEXA scan the low-fat group lost 0.1 percent okay got that now here's the B for liver fat the low-carb group lost 32 percent of their fat in the liver 32
• 09:30 - 10:00 percent a third of the fat in their liver was gone after eight weeks of a low-carb diet and this guy in my opinion it was a lower carb diet it was nowhere near a keto diet or what I would even consider a low-carb diet but still a it was a it was a relatively low carb diet how much liver fat did the low fat group lose one percent so once and for all we can put to bed the myth the lie that
• 10:00 - 10:30 eating fat will make you fat or eating fat will cause fatty liver it does not work that way a low-carb diet removed six times as much fat as the low-fat crude diets so I mean there's just no way now both groups what about you say oh but the low I bet the low-carb group lost some muscle mass right both groups held their lean muscle mass or their lean body mass the same through the entire study the DEXA scan picked up
• 10:30 - 11:00 no change in muscle mass so no the low-carb group did not lose muscle mass the low-carb group had a significant reduction in liver lab work there alt and there ast were significantly lower than the low fat group at the end of the study the low-carb group had a significant reduction in insulin resistance by the end of this study the low fat group did not the fasting insulin levels the lipid
• 11:00 - 11:30 panel and the CRP were stable for eight weeks in both groups neither the low fat or the low carb group really was affected with those lapsing in mind keep in mind both groups got the amount of protein they needed to hold their weight and the amount of calories calculated to hold their weight so this was not calorie restriction the the low-carb group just ate fewer carbs than the low fat group that's the UH that's the only difference this is the
• 11:30 - 12:00 first randomized trial to ever be done that I know of in the world about low-carb diets and fatty liver I think that if they had done an even lower carb diet they would have seen even more stunning results but this is a great leap forward for everybody in the world all four billion of you who suffer from fatty liver disease so once again let me sum up the finding as this study I want you listen very carefully and this is one of the reasons I need you to share this video because this is not equivocal
• 12:00 - 12:30 at all this is very cut and dried in this study and there wasn't just a tiny one point one eight percent difference these are the big differences okay so the low-carb group lost more body fat by about four times as much as the low fat group the low-carb group lost six times as much liver fat as the low fat group huge difference both groups maintained their lean body mass and their muscle mass on the DEXA scan the low-carb group
• 12:30 - 13:00 had no signs of inflammation that the low fat group didn't have they had no signs of any kind of disease that popped up and again their lipid panel their total cholesterol or LDL their HDL their triglycerides stayed the same from from the beginning of the study to week it had no effect on their lipid panel whether they were low carb or low fat and that that's a huge deal so once and for all calorie restriction portion control
• 13:00 - 13:30 calorie deficit none of that is going to help you reverse your fatty liver disease a low-carb diet is the way to reverse fatty liver disease yeah I think this room this research study pretty much puts it to bed now this research has been presented as a poster at a recent American Diabetes Association event and it has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal I have a full copy but you can't get a full copy as of the making of this video
• 13:30 - 14:00 but as soon as it's accepted and published in the peer-reviewed journal I'll be able to post a link to the full study and I want you to share this video to the heavens because there are so many people whose doctor is still telling them just move more and eat less that's that's all we got it's been it hasn't been proven to work but that's all I can tell you I don't know join Weight Watchers and join the gym stop giving that terrible advice health care providers and patients stop listening to that saying wait a minute if there a study because now you've got
• 14:00 - 14:30 to study alright now I've got four other fatty liver videos on this channel already because that's what it'd be what a big deal it is so I'm going to put a link here in here at the end of this video so you can if you want to learn more about fatty liver or even fat fatty pancreas you can click one of those links and see more about that please subscribe to this channel so that every time new research like this comes out you'll be one of the very first to know and click the little bell right beside the subscribe button so that you get a
• 14:30 - 15:00 notification okay this is dr. Barry I'm so happy to make this video and I'll see you next time