Stored fat prevents liver from fine-tuning chemical processes essential for good health. As part of increasing overweight/obesity in U.S., an increase in fatty liver disease is now a major cause of terminal liver failure.

Even slightly abnormal liver function tests may signal liver failure. Contact us and we will help you Reverse Diabetes and Stop Fatty Liver Disease.

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Excess Calorie Toxicity Syndrome

Normal Liver Function

The liver is located at the top of the abdomen just under the diaphragm. All the blood from the digestive system flows into the liver. Sugar, fat and protein absorbed from the intestines are made into substances used by other organs. Some substances are fuel for chemical and mechanical work, some are transformed and stored in energy carriers and some are converted and stored as fat all over the body.

When blood levels of sugar and fatty acids are high, they are absorbed into liver cells. When blood levels are low, stored substances are released back to the heart and the general circulation.

Fatty Liver Formation

The liver also receives arterial blood as well as venous blood from the digestive system. This arterial blood circulates substances from all over the body. Fatty acids released from other organs come into the liver and are processed along with fatty acids in venous blood from fat tissue in the abdominal cavity.

Insulin promotes absorption of sugar and fatty acids into the liver when blood levels are high. However, fat cells require higher levels of insulin in blood to absorb glucose and fatty acids than skeletal muscle absorbing fuel for mechanical work or recharging energy carriers.

When more fat is stored in the liver than released, fat accumulates in liver cells and degrades their function.

Fatty Liver Disease (Inflammation And Fibrosis)

High levels of sugar in the blood damage small blood vessels. They leak fluid into the liver which damages the cells. When the cells are damaged, and partially destroyed, inflammation cells come in to take away broken pieces of tissue and release proteins to help heal the damage.

At the same time, high levels of insulin stimulate growth factors that help to heal injury. Growth factors also create new tissue. Much of that new tissue becomes fibrous and blocks normal function of liver cells.

Liver Cancer

New fat cells not only take in sugar and fatty acids, they also release them. Those high levels of fatty acids cause further damage to liver cells. Some of those damaged cells keep growing and dividing out of control.

That’s how damaged cells become cancer. The high levels of sugar actually help those abnormal cells grow and divide. Growth factors stimulated by high levels of insulin make those cells into tumors that replace normal cells.

The final result of high levels of sugar and insulin brought into the liver is Liver Cancer.

What’s Going On?

By the time Fatty Liver Disease causes liver failure or liver cancer, Maximum Waist Circumference is more than 40 inches for men or 35 inches for women. Does that mean fat tissue in the abdominal cavity is causing terrible results?

Probably not.

It’s true that high levels of fat, sugar and insulin are brought into the liver by venous blood from the digestive organs. That’s why so much attention is given to abdominal fat. However, surgical removal of fat from the abdominal cavity does not stop Fatty Liver Disease.

High levels of fat, sugar and insulin also arrive in arterial blood from the rest of the body. By the time Fatty Liver Disease appears, Excess Calorie Toxicity is causing trouble everywhere. Increased Maximum Waist Circumference is just part of the Syndrome.

What To Do?

If you have Prediabetes or Diabetes or increased Maximum Waist Circumference, you should act to Stop Excess Calorie Toxicity.

If you weigh more than 2.5 pounds per inch of standing height, you should have tests for levels of Blood Sugar and Insulin after nothing to eat or calories to drink for at least 10 hours.

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