today I'm going to share with you how these are related and the two most powerful things that you can eat to prevent a lot of problems with both the liver and the inside of your arteries now take a look at this we have some type of stressor whether it's smoking alcohol drugs toxins viruses bacteria junk food sugar seed oils refine carbohydrates these are all triggers these are stressors that can affect the liver or the blood vessels whether you're inhaling uh some smoke or a toxin it goes right into into the blood supply now if you
ingest something it gets absorbed into the gut it goes into the bloodstream and the first thing that's hit is the liver so the liver gets exposed to a lot of the the junk that's in the blood and one of the things the liver is supposed to do is clean out the toxicity that's in the blood it has various enzymes to turn these poisons into harmless particles and so both of these tissues are working together very very hard to keep you healthy however since you live on planet Earth you're exposed to a lot of bad foods
toxicity okay this is how it works you first have one of these triggers right here and that's cold oxidation or oxidative stress not enough antioxidants you get this damage situation this rusting out okay and so we start out with the stressor and then the body is going to try to heal itself and it uses the immune system to do that so the way that the body heals itself is through the immune system by triggering inflammation and then you have scar tissue that is a scab okay if this goes on too long it develops into an
advanced fibrosis called curosis the same thing happens in the artery we have inflammation and then fibrosis which is scar tissue if it continues more you get more plaing and it can actually go deep into the artery and create more inflammation as a NeverEnding cycle but you have to realize that cholesterol is not just there to plug up an artery okay that cholesterol most of it is made by your liver because we need cholesterol to build all the membranes of the cells and hormones as well testosterone progesterone estrogen and even a hormone called cortisol which is
a stress hormone but it also makes cell membranes this is a cell membrane the inside of a cell looks like this 25% of the cell membranes you have cholesterol and we need the cholesterol to allow this membrane to really work which line the nervous system your brain and cholesterol is not just floating through there it's transported with a certain shuttle it's a protein but if we just step back and look at this whole process what's really happening is our immune cells are trying to heal or create a scar or a Band-Aid and in the arteries
the problem is when the bandaid is too big it creates a blockage and then you get a heart attack or you might get something broken off that goes into a stroke and also you get damage within the organ itself so you get damage in the blood vessel so now we don't get the right it's called nitric oxide to allow it to Bas or dilate or relax so now we just get constriction that's called high blood pressure we get abnormal lipids so that's the cholesterol thing and then we get a high risk of cardiovascular disease with
the liver we get a diminished ability to get rid of poisons so now we can't detoxify the liver can't make antioxidants to protect against this anymore one of the ways that the body gets rid of excess cholesterol is through the bile ducts so if you're not able to make enough bile then the cholesterol kind of backs up through the blood also you get a lack of digestion you might get Gulf stones and then we get to another common problem which is insulin resistance okay insulin resistance starts in your liver and insulin resistance comes before pre-diabetes
and then you get diabetes so the problem with insulin resistance is now you can't really regulate blood sugars that well anymore and also the lining of that artery also has insulin resistance as well and then something else happens your liver starts to make sugar itself so it's really a situation where your blood sugars are high because the liver is creating that situation not good so I just wanted to give you the foundation of these two problems right here now let's get into what garlic and onion can do for both of these well the two foods
that can counter that and prevent that whole process are these two right here that can help decrease oxidative stress through dealing with free radical damage and so by consuming these antioxidants from these two Foods you're basically borrowing electrons from something else to help get rid of these free radicals that's the oxidation inflammation fibrosis calcification now these two foods are very high in Sulfur now what's so significant about sulfur well sulfur is involved in this amazing Phase 1 Phase 2 detoxification enzyme system each enzyme has the capacity to break down and eliminate safely chemicals that's quite
magical so whether you're being exposed to nicotine caffeine a drug this system allows you to deal with all this exposure whether it's coming in from your you know your lungs or coming in through the digestion it's going to end up in the liver and then you need this system to deal with it the problem is if you have a bad liver and it's damaged then this doesn't work but these two foods can give you these enzymes to allow this detoxification to happen also sulfur is needed to get rid of inflammation in fact if you look
at a lot of the other remedies that you can buy at the store for inflammation they usually have sulfur in there I wonder why also garlic and onion are natural antimicrobial so if you were to get sick for example with a virus or a bacterial infe infection you'd want to take garlic and onion because it's going to help you it's like they're both natural antibiotics but without the side effects they don't harm the good bacteria they only harm the pathogens there are actually different defense mechanisms and medicines to heal the plant and protect the plant
and we can piggyback off that by consuming the actual plant itself now also if you consume both of these you're going to find another benefit of blood thinning I'm not talking about making your blood abnormally thin where you're going to have excess bleeding but if you do happen to have this problem where you're clotting more than usual which is not a good thing it can bring you back to that normal but it's a mild version of that without the side effects so that's really cool also the ability for both of these foods to to help
you make insulin more sensitive is also another benefit since so many people have insulin resistance so even know when you cook an onion and it becomes sweet and there's carbohydrates you do not have to worry about that onion messing with your blood sugars or creating any type of Diabetes it's not going to do that because it's actually low on the glycemic index and also it has so many different things that can protect against this insulin problem and the diabetes issue so by getting rid of the oxidated damage and the inflammation you can then decrease the
fibrosis that's going on you're also going to get a nice balance of all your lipids you're going to optimize your lipids garlic has the ability to help your liver make more bile for excess cholesterol coming through there and also to prevent sludge in this area that sometimes can back up and cause pain in your right shoulder through here an onion has the ability to increase something called nitric oxide and decrease your blood pressure so this is what both of these foods will do for the liver and the artery now let's give you some ideas on
how you can include this in your diet what I want to give you right now is just a creative list of all the different ways that you can consume garlic and onion you can actually mix it with a stir fry okay with vegetables and some meat whether it's chicken or beef you can put it in hummus okay hummus normally comes with garlic but just add some onion in there also anytime you make soup add the garlic and onion to the soup now one point about garlic and onion you're going to have the most potent effect
if it's fresh crushing the garlic or chopping the onions I like to always cook my omelets my egg omelet with onions and then I sprinkle garlic on top now another idea I use with making omelets is I'll put olives on the omelets I'll put fermented garlic cloves and I will slice up in sauté onions I'm probably making you hungry right now I also like to put garlic and onion on my mashed cauliflower with a little sea salt and pepper it's awesome you can also Infuse garlic and onion in your dressings with the olive oil if
you're making beef stew oh always put plenty of garlic and onions in that anytime I eat fry a steak I will also sauté garlic and onion and put that on there garlic and onion with steak will act as a natural antibacterial you can also use rosemary oregano all of those will help when I make salsa or guacamole I always put onion and garlic in there and of course if you haven't seen my pizza recipe you could put plenty of onions and garlic on that because you're using the cauliflower crust it's totally amazing and since we're
on the topic of pizza if you haven't seen this recipe and how I make this pizza you should check it out I put it up right here