5 Drinks That Remove Fat From Your Liver & Speed Up Fat Loss | Dr. William Li

today we're going to talk about five drinks that can help remove fat from your liver first of all what is your liver your liver is an organ in your body it's one of the largest organs in your body and it actually plays an absolutely critical role to detoxify your body but it does it through your blood so your blood sends um a huge amount of volume into your liver your liver actually filters it and the cells of in your liver actually basically clean your blood remove those toxins and send it on its way to actually

go get more oxygen and nutrients to be pumped out now the liver actually has some fat in it and it actually can hold on to Fat so when you actually have more fat than your body can store it winds up actually being sent over to the liver so think about the liver as kind of a a storage area uh for extra fat you can just build up there until your body needs that fuel which comes into form of fat and burns it right down all right so we're going to come into this a little bit

more but your liver's basically main function is to cleanse and detoxify your body so what's the connection between fat body fat and liver like liver fat so I'm going to actually walk you through what happens when you actually eat and how your liver plays a role when it comes to fat when you actually eat food all right whatever it is even healthy foods you're eating your food you're chewing it it's going down into your system you're digesting it your metabolism your body's hardwired to take the energy from the food that you've eaten and store it

in your muscles use it in the blood and anything extra can be stored into body fat the body fat can store it anywhere it can store it under your skin subcutaneous fat it can store it into the center of your body okay the tube of your body can have fat it's called visceral fat little bit of fat is normal it's a storage area a lot of isol fat is dangerous it doesn't matter how big you are you could be um real thin uh and have a skinny tube of your body but it can be packed

with fat and so then you're active your en you're you're using up the energy you're burning down the fuel all right until it's time to load up again on your fuel so think of your body like a car you kind of alternate between going fast going down the road to do your business uh versus looking at the fuel tank and it's slow you got to fill up again filling up is like eating when you eat it you store it into your fuel tank all right like it just like a car at a filling station and

in the case of your body energy is actually stored in body fat until you burn it right down all right now what happens if you uh actually start to accumulate fat more and more fat well fat is accumulated in cells called adipocytes all right um these are special fat cells uh that you're born with in fact it's one of the early cells that forms in your body and it's critical because a deposites or fat cells are fuel tanks for your body now unlike a fuel tank in a car which is made out of metal and

very rigid the osy or fat cell is stretching so you can actually take a fat cell load it up with fat and it can stretch up to three times its size 300% larger and if you do that over and over and over you can kind of see how your body would start to swell and that's actually how fat grows now when your body's actually burning fuel you're exercising you're uh you're in motion what happens the body what is that the body will draw down that fuel that's stored and in fact it even does it uh

when you're not in motion when you're sleeping your body will sort to burn down that fuel as well at night all right so whenever you're not taking in calories you're not eating your body is actually going to switch ears and start to burn down that fat all right when you exercise uh or your emotion you're going to burn it down even faster so that's how body fat is built up that's how it's actually burned down and that's just part of the cycle of life now when your body fat actually is filled up so let's say

you're eating and overe eating that's actually one of the most common causes of fat accumulating in your liver you're eating tooo many calories calories those calories are going into your stomach they're being absorbed into your bloodstream and now you got to store them you store them into body fat remember I told you single fat cell can swell three times its size and then the next fat cell needs to get stored up and it will swell three times the size and then the third one swells up three times in size over and over again as you're

actually loading up on your calories all right with overeating you're way overloading on the fat the fat is building up oh man you're kind of running out of fat so what it does is it calls on your stem cells in your fat to make more fat cells and when I went to medical school I was always taught by my professors that you're born with all the fat you're ever going to have that's not true we now know with more modern research that in fact fat can actually generate more of itself all right it when it

needs to through these stem cells so energy into your body gets stored in fat fat can expand and then fat will shrink when you're actually Burning Down the energy but what happens if you keep on overeating keep on overeating way more than you're actually burning it down right so think of this like a sink right sink in your bathroom or your sink in your kitchen you've got to spig it on that's energy coming in that's like fuel coming in you got a drain uh removing the fluid that's actually burning away that energy all right so

couple of things that can happen if there is a blockage in the sink there's no outflow guess what then you can just have eat regular amounts of food put regular amounts of water into your sink and it'll build up build up build up build up and overflow this is what happens when you actually have liver failure and livers can fail when they're full of fat when liers are full of fat uh they they're not functioning properly and they're not able you're not able to burn down that fat because there's so much fat in it and

so now with the more fat you eat it just keeps on swelling and swelling and building up building up all right now the other thing that you can actually do to overwhelm your sink is if you put on the spigot on full all right and the drain doesn't change and you walk away and now your water level goes up up up up and same thing in your body fat and fuel goes up up up up eventually it's going to spill over and this is what actually happens with fat cells in your body when you're storing

fuel you're eating overeating overeating some more still overeating all right now your fat cells swell eventually there's spillage just like the sink that that you put on wide open the spigot water flows out of the sink down into the floor all right water's got to go someplace guess what when you overeat and you overwhelm the capacity of fat to store that fuel what happens the fat the energy spills out out of the fat into your bloodstream and now you've actually overflow the tank now in your human body that overflow gets caught by the liver remember

I told you the liver's job is to detoxify so when you've got this spillage of fat so think about like an oil tanker running a ground and spilling all the oil in the ocean well when that actually happens in your body you've got fat spilling out your liver basically jumps into action to detoxify the body so it absorbs all that fat and it stores it all up okay it's just another sink it's another storage area for the all this extra fat your body doesn't want to um lose energy that is captured so it'll actually store

it in a liver the liver gets filled with fat remember what I told you when you overload the liver with fat it stops functioning properly and remember what I said about the function of the liver it is a detoxifier in your body when you've got too much fat that's overflowed your tanks of your fat tissue and that fat overflows into your liver your liver accumulates it now it knocks out your liver function now the liver can't detoxify that can cause all kinds of problems right because now you're not detoxifying other things as well and the

liver also makes proteins and so when your liver is not functioning well it's also not going to make the right kinds of proteins what kind of proteins well like the proteins you need to clot your blood so when you have liver failure guess what your liver is unable to make those substances that actually help your blood clot so you become highly vulnerable to bleeding Hemorrhage which can actually be fatal all right so there are real consequences to overloading your liver and having fatty liver accumulate this is why we're talking about this all right here's the

thing fatty liver due to overc consumption is the number one cause today for for the need of liver transplantation that's quite a change from when I was in medical school learning it was alcoholism alcoholics had a liver transplant because their livers got shot um and people with hepatitis also had shot livers now in today's world with overabundance of food over consumption of food of calories now it's actually livers and by the way this non-alcoholic because it's not due to alcohol fatty liver disease is happening in younger and younger people all right not good remember I

told you the liver has to detoxify your body all right now when the liver is actually packed with fat guess what it also leaks fat out your liver and now you actually have lipolysis now you've got fat in your bloodstream uh as well so fatty liver overflows your tank uh not good so what are some of the symptoms that you have of fatty liver well if you have it you probably know you it's more tired fatigued Mala you feel just kind of crummy overall and your liver is in located in the right upper quadrant so

you might actually have some discomfort because the liver is kind of swollen and a little bit now when eventually when the liver shuts down you can have sorosis that's basically liver shutdown scarring in the liver liver shut down and some of the things that people experience are itchy skin the liver is passing supposed to pass a large volum of blood uh in order to detoxify it if it's not working properly the fluid backs up and guess where that fluid goes it gets deposited into the hollow of your belly it's called the peronal uh uh space

and the fluid that builds up is called a cites in fact you can actually shake the belly and you'll hear it slashing around and and actually sometimes what we have to do is to put a needle in there to drain that fluid it's a real problem when you have liver failure um that fluid backing up not only in a belly it's also down to your legs so how many people have you seen um like swollen legs well liver damage is one of the causes of Edema and you can actually put your finger into the um

into the swollen part of the leg and it's like putting it into bread dough it'll cause a pitting a space it'll it'll leave a mark right there in that valys remember I told you uh liver failure also is accompanied by problems with um your circulation well you can start to develop these they call them spider angomas because they look like tiny little blood vessel spiders that are forming on your skin and of course because you're not detoxifying your blood the toxins back up and guess what your skin can become start to turn yellowish and the

scare of your eyes the light of your eyes can also get become yellowish so medical doctors like me if we are examining somebody in the emergency room or the clinic or the ICU we're actually looking for skin uh and and Scara in the eyes for signs of liver uh uh damage uh and therosis and liver failure okay now when you get to that end stage where pretty much everything gets shot guess what you're going to need help and that help might just just might rely on getting a liver transplant it's hard to get a liver

transplant because there's not enough livers that go around but the reason we're having this whole conversation and the reason that I think it's really critical for me to communicate uh this issue to you is because the liver before it fails is quite resilient the liver can actually regenerate all right uh and so if you actually unburden the liver by burning down more fat all right before you get to the end game you actually can allow your liver to kind of grow itself back and you can actually be okay again here's the thing about the liver

if you took the liver and you remove twoth thirds of it okay cut away twoth thirds of it oneir that's left actually will grow itself back over a period of months so liver is highly regenerative it wants to actually do it thing that's how important it is in your body all right it's a highly resilient organ so if you can if you got fatty liver and you burn down fat you're going to unpack your liver unburn your liver and allow it to actually regenerate if you are on your way to a fatty liver or you

want to avoid a fatty liver you definitely want to actually burn that fat away all right and that's really really critical so let's talk about the five beverages that you can actually drink to unburden your liver by burning away body fat harmful excess body fat beverage number one green tea here it is again the ubiquitous green tea when it comes to health what's in tea what's in green tea it's got a polyphenol a cattigan called egcg Epi Gallow cakin 3 Galley egcg all right and you know what egcg does it does a lot of things

okay but in this case uh for burning down fat it activates Brown fat thermogenesis so let me explain this to you green tea activates Brown fat thermogenesis and brown fat is kind of special kind of fat in your body it's good fat it's not wiggly jiggly it's not under your arms it's not under your chin it's not your muffin top brown fat is wayer thin and it's plastered around your neck a little bit behind your breast bone between your shoulder blades a little bit in your belly and when Brown fat is activated and green tea

will activate the egcg will activate the brown fat what that does is it fires up kind of like a space heater all right and when it fires up a space heater it's going to create require energy to create Heat thermogenesis is creating heat all right and in order to create that heat that energy that brown fat uses is drawn from excess body fat like visceral fat all right so this is actually a way to turn on good fat to burn down bad fat and it's a way of actually lowering overall excess harmful body fat in

your body green tea can actually do this the another analogy that I often give for a brown fat what it does thermogenesis if you have a range in your kitchen right uh and a gas range what do you do when you want to heat up a pot of water or cook some soup go to the range you turn on the the no the the dial and you go click click click click whoosh right that's what happens now you can put the PT on you can boil it now when you go click click click whoosh you're

actually drawing fuel gas from your gas line maybe a maybe a a gas tank by the side of your house or maybe Town gas into that burner and then then and then when you ignite it whoosh now you got that flame that's exactly like what brown fat actually does and it's burning down the fuel from your excess white fat okay that's bad fat good fat versus bad fat green tea can actually do that now how do we know that it actually works well this has been studied in the laboratory and green tea and egcg can

actually have that effect on Brown fat when you study it in the microscope in the lab but more importantly it works in a clinic it works in real people so studies in Iran have looked at women 70 women who are coming from a diabetes clinic and they have metabolic syndrome all right now this is kind of on your way towards diabetes and otherwise Badness due to excess body fat and problems with your metabolisms so you know what's what are the signs you have metabolic syndrome high blood pressure high blood cholesterol High lipids uh high blood

sugar and a large waist circumference waist circumference is actually kind of a marker of how much body fat you actually have in a tube of your body right so everyone whether you're a big person or a skinny person your body and cross-section is a tube and there's fat that actually grows in the middle of there right so what happens when your visceral fat that's the fat inside the visc of your guts what happens when that fat expands it's going to stretch out your tube now think think about that if you had a belt okay belt

belt size at normal you get excess body fat look at that you're going to undo a couple of belt holes in order to be able to buckle your belt right so that's why waste circumference is actually a a surrogate a marker of how much body fat harmful body fat excess body fat you might actually have so this study in Iran I looked at 70 women who are in a diabetic Clinic with metabolic syndrome gave the women seven ounces of green tea that's just under a fluid cup of green tea not very much in fact and

they gave it to them to drink three times a day for eight weeks all right and there's another placebo group that just got lukewarm water the tea drinkers basically um uh uh drank their uh tea uh sort of breakfast lunch uh in the afternoon uh and at the end of eight weeks the tea drinkers lost 2 PBS and they also shrank their waist circumference by almost an inch and means that that visceral fat got burned down click click click whoosh green tea activates the brown fat the brown fat burns down the fuel Burns away the

fat and guess what your waste or Comfort shrinks when you're losing excess body fat this is the kind of thing that you can actually use to unpack your liver unburden body fat uh in your liver now in this study the women who had green tea also had lower blood pressure they had better fasting glucose it's a sign of metabolic health and they actually had better blood lipids as well blood blood cholesterol now uh these are all helpful signs that you're losing excess body fat and having a better metabolism all right this is going to be

helpful if you want to if you're having a battling with a fatty liver and you want to actually turn away from it this is the kind of thing that you actually want to do lose some excess body fat now there was a similar study from Teran University of medical Sciences they looked at 63 men and women and these people by the way were between the ages of 35 and 65 so basically adults okay all the way up to you know middle age and they were overweight and these people had type 2 diabetes so they've had

Frank type 2 diabetes and the study found that if he gave them the people four cups of green tea per day over two months okay what happened is they lost three pounds of weight okay but they also lost almost two inches of of their waist circumference so they're they shrink like by two holes in their belt usually those belt holes are about an inch apart right so remember the waist circumference is stretched by excess body fat and it shrinks you get a tighter belt actually uh if you shrink and lose your visceral fat now these

tea studies were not done in people with fatty liver but the principles are the same fatty liver you got way too much fat in your body you know you can burn it off by eating by exercising by motion you can also eat a little bit less but if you want a little extra help with beverages green tea is one of those that can actually help you U burn off burn down harmful body fat Okay um and by the way such as green tea turns out if you are tea lover most people like green tea but

if you want to try other teas that are also effective here's some good news for you it turns out that you can uh improve your metabolism and burn down harmful body fat with matcha tea That's the kind of bright green tea that you would actually get at a sushi bar for example and by the way matcha is an exceptional tea because while green tea is like the tea leaves steeped right so you take the whole leaves you put them in a bag or you put a loose leaf and all the good stuff the polyphenols the

egcg's dissolving out of the Tea Leaf into the water with matcha you take the entire leaf and ground it into a powder and stir that in so you get the entire Leaf you get all the ecgc all the polyphenols and you get all the dietary fiber as well good for gut health good for metabolic Health uh helps you burn fat and so matcha is another tea that's been shown to be fat lower oong tea is another tea all right uh and if you know what oong tea is you you're like you probably nod your head

and say Hey you know that's my favorite now wulong tea is the kind of tea that you will often get in a Chinese restaurant it is um not green bright greens doesn't grassy it's got a little bit of an oxidized taste because it's slightly oxidized it's not a black tea not English English breakfast tea but it also still has egcg the cakin that actually helps you burn off extra body fat now if you want to go dark all right English breakfast tea earl grape that's fine but you really want to take it to the Limit

there is a um black tea called poer tea PU aposte e r pu T pu is a small city in Southwest China that originally developed this Smoky fermented tea it's a fermented tea meaning it's got its own healthy bacteria growing in it it's dried all right for a long period of time and it was originally used in a training route so you know this these little bricks of fermented tea could um travel long distances without spoiling all right well turns out researchers have found that Pooh ER tea can actually shrink your waistline uh it's got

the egcg it's got the cakin but it's also a probiotic tea that can also improve your metabolism so although I talked about green tea we also talked about matcha and ulong and pu tea and I'm telling you black tea like English breakfast tea and R gr are also really good um here's a pro tip though if you're going to drink tea drink it straight don't put sugar in it all right sugar carbs calories you now you're actually not doing yourself a favor you're trying to burn down harmful body fat all right let that tea by

itself do its job the other thing is that you know some people actually like to put dairy in their tea you want to cut your tea with a little bit of milk don't use Dairy and the reason is this Dairy from cows have dairy fat and that dairy fat forms little soap bubbles that bind up the polyphenols and then you drink it the the little soap bubbles that contain the polyphenols just uh trickle down your gut and you haven't really absorbed it all right so drink tea straight if you can all right um if you

want to cut it with something cut it with nut milk almond milk uh is fine soy milk is fine they don't actually form those types of bubbles beverage number two coffee my favorite all right now coffee has been studied a lot for metabolism it's definitely helpful for metabolism it definitely Burns body fat and the way that coffee does this is that it activates Brown fat thermogenesis just like green tea so coffee with chlorogenic acid one of its bioactives activates your brown fat that's the useful fat around the side of your neck behind your breast bone

a little bit behind your shoulder blades a little bit in your belly and it fires it up click click click whoosh and then your brown fat is is generating heat and it's stealing it's powering itself with fuel and it's stealing from your visceral fat your harmful fat activated Brown fat burns down harmful unwanted fat unburdens your body of fat that's really good if you're really trying to um counter a fatty liver now the other thing about coffee and chlorogenic acid is that it actually prompts your body to make even more Brown fat put more gas

burners on your stove all right now it's not click click click gooosh with one you want six burners you want eight burners coffee will actually give you lots of burners to be able to draw more fuel and in fact there been clinical studies that show that this actually works in fact one involved 504 people and they're all coming from Indonesia and it show that drinking coffee coffee drinkers actually had less body fat and by the way although caffeine can stimulate your metabolism as well in this study from Indonesia of coffee drinking they were able to

remove the caffeine and they found even without caffeine coffee the chlorogenic acid would fire up your brown fat and actually cause you to lose weight another study from the Harvard School of Public Health and Rec researchers from Singapore and Switzerland actually um looked at something else really interesting they took 26 men and women ages 35 or 36 to 69 these people were overweight and they had insulin resistance right so they're on their way to actually developing type two diabetes and half the group was given four cups of coffee per day four cups of coffee uh

I probably drink four cups of coffee a day all right and the types of coffee they made were with robusta beans and they drank four cups of coffee a day for six months I can tell you uh if you had a kitchen camera on me I'd be drinking at least that uh over for many many more months in six months and the other group that they were actually in researching got a placebo that looked and tasted like coffee but there's no coffee in it no caffeine no coffee and the coffee Dr drinkers had their Brew

at breakfast at midm morning middle of the morning at lunch and also after lunch all right that's when they drank their four cups of coffee and at the end of the day what what they found that the coffee drinkers lost 4.6 lb they lost 4.6 lb of body fat he lost body fat by contrast the placebo drinkers actually gained body fat they gained weight all right completely in the opposite direction this really shows you that coffee has an effect on helping your body burn down extra body fat click click click whoosh beverage number three tomato

juice now listen I love tomatoes and when I was a kid I remember drinking uh tomato juice all the time you remember that whole vegetable juice V8 um had it's like a cuddle like tomato and every now and then I'll actually I mean think about like Bloody Marry mix right tomato juice now tomatoes and their juice contain something called lopine lopine is a bioactive a natural chemical and it's a carotenoid it helps to make tomatoes and other Foods red red in color and tomatoes uh with lopine have been shown to activate your you guessed it

brown fat thermogenesis all right you can trigger on Brown fat thermogenesis and burn down extra Brown fat in fact there was a study from Portugal that gave just one Ripe Tomato to a bunch of young women in grad school before lunch to eat every day for like 30 days and guess what they found that nothing else changed just giving that one tomato would cause them to lose body fat and and they would lose their visceral fat their their waist size would actually get shrink a little bit and all of their met metabolic parameters would increase

so just like all the other Foods I talked about the beverages green tea coffee tomato juice will actually do the same with the lopine from Tomatoes now research from China have looked at 25 women who were normal weight and what they did is they gave 1.2 cups all right uh one and a fth cups of tomato juice to drink every day for eight weeks right so think about this as a breakfast tomato juice a cup is a little bit more than a cup not very much and at the end of the study guess what they

found these women actually lost weight shrank their waist circumference and when these researchers looked at the blood of the tomato juice shrinker they actually found that there was also a decrease in the inflammatory marker this in this case the inflammatory marker is called mcp1 m is in Michael C is in Charlie P is in Peter -1 mcp1 went down that's an inflammatory marker and by the way excess body fat is inflammatory so this is another example where body fat went down you measured in weight you measured in Waist cumference you measured it in the inflammatory

marker associated with fat as well and that was just a little bit more than a cup a day of tomato juice all right now if you're going to get commercial tomato juice just please look at the label on the side and make sure that there isn't um preservatives or flavoring or colorings that you don't want to have in there all right you're going to want to have pure tomato juice you can learn how to make it yourself as well and by the way um we're talking about beverages here but you can probably guess if you

this works with tomato juice tomato sauce is also probably um uh going to be also a good way to to integrate this into your diet got to be practical you know you might not want to drink tomato juice every day then go for tomato sauce all right okay beverage number four related two tomatoes are is watermelon juice now you're like wait a minute Dr Lee watermelons Tomatoes nothing alike you are right except both tomatoes and watermelons have lopine that's right watermelon which has got red flesh remember I told you the lopine helps to provide color

watermelon has lopine it's got a lot of fluid in it which is good but it's also got lopine in it um a lot of people don't know this but watermelons were not originally they they came from Africa but they were not originally red they I think they were yellow and they weren't sweet they were just used for water for hydration and you know the hot environment but over time they got bread to be red and sweet and that redness actually brought with it uh lopine now researchers have been looking at watermelon juice and here's what

they found they found that homemade watermelon juice that means you get fresh watermelon you chunk it up you put it into a blender okay and you Pate it can make about three and a half cups of juice this way there these researchers it three and a half cups of juice all right that's a pretty sizable amount of juice that's more than a tall glass but that drinking that watermelon juice for three weeks could double the amount of lopine that fat fighting substance in your blood because it's in your blood that where it goes to work

all right so watermelon juice actually is a good way to get more lopine into your uh body have some tomato juice for breakfast have some watermelon juice for lunch or in the afternoon or if you're going to go out if you're at the beach or if you're going for a hike drink some watermelon juice uh before you leave and you know why because the watermelon juice has powerful antioxidant properties and if you're going to go out into the sun if you have a glass of watermelon juice um a couple of hours before you go out

it will actually protect you your your DNA from the damage from the ultraviolet variation that go out and on the beach right so here's a simple thing just have some you want to hydrate anyway Hydrate with fresh watermelon juice this is a good thing to prepare if you're going to go out to the beach and you want to pack something uh again if you're going to buy commercial store-bought watermelon juice please look at the label most commercial watermelon juices of a lot of other things besides watermelon juice all right they got some watermelon juice what

some real watermelon juice but they've got uh sometimes artificial coloring some sometimes added sugar uh sometimes preservative sometimes other juices no you want to go for the pure one so make it yourself if you want to let's pick up a watermelon next time you're at the grocery store and keep it on your counter and then when you're you're actually ready to make the juice sitting right there all right um by the way the other thing about watermelons that and watermelon juice that's healthy this is like an extra credit benefit for you is that watermelon flesh

has something called citrine that's c t r u l l i n e citrine which your body uses to make a substance called nitric oxide nitric oxide is absolutely critical for your health and the more you actually have citrine the more nitric oxide your body's going to have um I tell you what nitric oxide does it actually causes your blood vessels to dilate relax guess what that happens then your blood pressure goes down and the other thing that nitric oxide does is it actually helps to pave and manage maintain your blood vessels so inside your

blood vessels your circulation got 60,000 miles with the blood vessels in your body they all respond to nitric oxide um the nitric oxide will actually call up stem cells that will look around and look in your blood vessels and anywhere there's a pothole or damage it'll actually replace it all right so it regenerates your blood vessels nitric oxide is a is a regenerative substance so watermelon juice containing citrine can actually uh give you that benefit uh as well hello there just a quick note I have another free resource I want to share with you five

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yourself you're going to buy get store bought just be really careful because most of the watermelon juice that I've ever seen in a grocery store is packed in plastic now you got microplastics to worry about and it it's got a lot more than watermelon juice in it it's got added sugar and you want to avoid that if you're trying to actually unburden your liver uh from fat all right now the fifth beverage is drinking water all right drinking water is the most popular beverage in the world number two is tea number three I think is

coffee all right and clinical studies have taken a look at what happens when you drink water it's more than you think like water's good for hydration all right but it turns out that if you actually drink water a couple of things happen first uh it stretches your stomach out when you're drinking water before a meal and when your stomach's stretched out it sends a signal to your brain hey you know we're kind of filled up here so don't get too hungry so you can actually blunt your appetite just by drinking water before a meal that

means less calories are going to go in all right so drinking water actually can uh provide that the other thing that really interesting is that drinking water triggers thermogenesis now this has been studied we believe that it's because there's temperature sensors that are in our stomach so you drink water glug glug glug goes down into your stomach and sitting in your stomach guess what water tends to be cool or cold it activates the temperature sensors in your stomach and all of a sudden your body goes whoa near my core I got cold water I got

to fire up uh uh I got to fire up to heat it up because I don't want to be of a cold uh core what does that firing up mean thermogenesis all right and so researchers in Germany have looked at this they actually gave found that drinking just two cups of water um caused an increase in metabolism by 30% increased metabolism 30% you're burning down fat you're actually firing up your thermogenesis brown fat fights white fat good fat fights bad fat you're burning down fat and now you're actually in better shape this is just drinking

water all right just to warm yourself up plus the idea of stretching out your stomach so that you're going to be feeling more full so you'll be less tempted to overeat remember the number one cause of fatty liver in this country is actually overeating so this is a good way water actually um helps to circumvent that counter that so now this whole thing about drinking cold water and your body have to heat it up to actually body temperature in order to not freeze your core scientists have actually calculated this if you drank six cups of

water every day for a year six cups of water every day for a year you would burn on just to warm that water up you'd burn 17,400 calories just for warming up that water all right and that's the energy equivalent of five pounds of body fat that's what we're talking about here water fills you up uh as well so you're less likely to eat and then on top of that it actually requires some energy some fuel that you can burn away some of that excess body fat in order to be able to warm it up

now the other thing about water if you're actually dealing with a fatty liver you want to really watch out for is to stay hydrated remember I told you that the liver's main role big role is actually to detoxify your body and if you have liver problems liver failure or got fatty liver and and you are dehydrated all right now you're dehydrated all those toxins that are not getting purified in your body are getting concentrated now you're going to run out through the liver you know that's going to be even more painful for your overall health

so staying hydrated dilutes out anything your blood okay in terms of toxins and it's actually better better and easier as a wise thing to have uh when you actually have fatty liver in fact that's just something that you should be doing anyway is hydrating but if you've got fatty liver you definitely want to actually drink water to be able to pre to prevent dehydration all right here's one more thing that I got to tell you as a pro tip if you are getting water from a store most likely you're buying plastic water bottles right you're

going to go for a hike what are you going to do you're going to get a sixpack of bottled water you're on an airplane uh what what what are they handing you they're handing you a bottle of plast of water in a plastic bottle you go to a sporting event you're running a marathon what do the people on the sidelines hand you they hand you a bottle of water usually right like we are so used to bottled water um that we don't even give it a second thought so is bottled water a great source to

get your water no and I'm going to tell you why because now we know that bottled of water almost always almost always will have microplastics in that water you know why because the plastic including the plastic that's been reused re recycled plastic it's shedding particles into the water like billions of particles into into the water you can't see it but it's there you drink it now you're drinking plastic into your body all right we now know that you know it's very hard to avoid plastic we now know that if you look in blood you can

actually find plastic if you look in h heart tissue if you look in blood vessels if you look in blood clots if you look in the narrowing of the atherosclerotic arteries okay and pick out the plaque and look inside it under the microscope we'll find microplastics they've even found microplastics in men's testicles okay embedded in your testicles that's not a good thing and it's invisible so there's microplastics smaller particles are called nanoplastics and we didn't used to worry about that in fact I would say even a year ago I would have told you you know

we don't have enough evidence yet to know that microplastics are actually harmful so um uh it's probably okay but cut down your plastic now more recent data shows us microplastics are definitely harm in fact a study from Italy looked at men who were in the hospital uh having to have surgery to remove blockages from their arteries neck neck arteries right uh and when they looked under the microscope guess what in those blockages they found pieces of plastic you can look this up on the Internet um just look for AOS aquatic plaque microplastics and hit image

and you'll actually see the picture of the plastic studying that um studying uh the plastic it's kind of like litter on a beach except that this is inside your body and stuck to your blood vessels and what the study uh from Italy actually showed is that people with plastic studing their vessel blockages had a four-fold increase in having a heart attack or a stroke so this is no kidding anymore we're actually beginning to take a look at real harms things that you don't want to actually have happen so going to drink water get it in

a glass bottle or a glass container avoid plastic water bottles it's also better not to use plastic water bottles you got to throw away and it's going to wind up in the sea or wind up in a dump we already have plastic everywhere that's even in the air that we breathe so you know use less plastic the other thing is that if you're storing plastic or taking water with you let's say you have well water at home and you're going to actually load up a bottle think about it those uh water containers that you might

actually have a thermos make sure you get one that's got metal in the middle of it and not plastic right think about those plastic Sports water bottles that you might have for your bike you might take for a jog uh you might go out hiking with guess what you're going to be putting those things in the dishwasher and when the dishwasher wears down the plastic and what do you think happens the plastic crumbles and it goes into that water and then you're drinking it and you can't see the plastic this is a big problem all

right so I'm going to say it again drinking water is good for helping you lose excess body fat among many beverages we talked about but if you're going to have water don't get it in a plastic bottle avoid plastic for your health no matter what it takes in order to be able to do that now some people will say okay let's figure we can I'll have glass bottles or I'll get it out of a tab Dr Le how much water should I drink should I really drink 10 tall glasses of water a day like isn't

that what Boy Scout said or your mother told you or your teacher told you you know look this is actually what happens with these G generalizations drink 10 tall glasses of water a day you know there's no rule of thumb research has shown that you don't not not everybody needs to drink 10 tall glasses of water day you should drink liquid every day and that liquid should be mostly water all right um but it's not necessarily 10 glasses it all depends on context if you're a big person you might need more water to be able

to hydrate your tissues if you're a smaller person a thinner person you might not need quite as much water if you are at home working uh you might not be losing too much water you're probably not going to need quite as much water probably not 10 glasses but if you're out working in the garden or you're hiking someplace or you're training for a marathon or you're going to the gym working out or swimming okay you're probably going to need more water in fact it may be even more than 10 cups of water so the best

way to think about how much water you actually need to have is to be uh in touch with your body to to feel how much you need it's something called interception right and so just feel like okay do I need to drink water pay attention to it if you feel like you're thirsty if your body is telling you it needs water drink some water okay sip it don't chug it all right chugging is like after you've been lost in a desert sip it in order to be able to actually let your body equilibrate take your

time with it but you know make satisfy your thirst that's the best way to know uh how much water you should drink now we talking about losing body fat and the beverages that can actually be helpful but here's the thing in the context of fatty liver I need you to understand what I said at the very beginning your liver is a critical organ for detoxifying your blood when you've got a fatty liver you're pretty far down the road in terms of having a health impairment right the good news is you can actually do things like

drink certain beverages like we talked about to be able to unpack the fat out of your body your liver will actually start to recover and that's actually something you can do for yourself but if you have fatty liver you definitely need to be working with your doctor in order to be able to actually deal with it because fatty liver is a serious problem all right it is not a homegrown remedy type of issue the things we talked about uh things you can drink and I'm going to do another YouTube video talking about foods you can

eat to unpack your fat fatty liver but the things these are all sort of the the things that you can do for yourself the healthcare you can do at home but you're going to need to be under the supervision and the guidance of a medical doctor who's probably going to refer you to specialist to help you uh have the best outcome if you have fatty liver and this requires professional Heth hope you learned something from this and thanks for watching Dr Lee out hi there if you enjoyed watching this video I know you'll love the

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