Fatty liver

Posted by Mark Chapman on August 19th, 2010 at 12:03 am

Car­olyn Schoner

By Car­olyn Schoner

Doc­tor of Ori­en­tal Medicine

A fatty liver is an accu­mu­la­tion of triglyc­erides in the liver. The causes include obe­sity, dia­betes, exces­sive con­sump­tion of alco­hol, sugar, IV drugs such as tetra­cy­cline and cor­ti­cos­teroids, and expo­sure to toxic sub­stances, such as car­bon tetra­chlo­ride and yel­low phos­pho­rus. Fatty liver can be reversed. A fatty liver is also a pre­cur­sor to cirrhosis.

One of the most inter­est­ing things about a fatty liver is that it often starts in chil­dren that are over­weight, espe­cially those young­sters that are obese.

Fat cells are cre­ated from weight gain. When a per­son loses weight, the fat cells decrease in size but they do not dis­ap­pear. Where are the tox­ins in the body stored? You guessed right —  in the fat cells. The more weight, the more fat cells and the more stored toxins.

Unfor­tu­nately, the liver can­not break down every toxin, so tox­ins are stored in bones, fatty tis­sue and the brain. In a fatty liver, there are fat deposits. That fat hin­ders the liver from fil­ter­ing the blood and then blocks blood cir­cu­la­tion within the liver.

There is a direct rela­tion­ship between sugar, triglyc­erides and fat. I have heard peo­ple say “I do not eat any sugar; I stay away from candy, cook­ies, cakes, and sodas.” Well, there are five types of sug­ars. Lac­tose is in milk, dairy, cheeses, creams, and ice cream. Fruc­tose is in all fruits and some veg­eta­bles. Mal­tose is found in malts, beer, some grains, cere­als, wheat, bar­ley, hops, corn, yeast, bread, pasta, noo­dles, whiskey, scotch and alco­hol that is made from any grain. Glu­cose is found in all starches, rice, noo­dles, some veg­eta­bles, corn, and fruits. Sucrose is sim­ple sugar that is found in cane sugar, sorghum, beets, white and brown sugar. Sug­ars are poly­sac­cha­rides, dis­ac­cha­rides, or mono­sac­cha­rides. A car­bo­hy­drates will con­tain three or more mol­e­cules of sim­ple car­bo­hy­drates thus poly­sac­cha­rides. What hap­pens when we make a din­ner? We mix and com­bine dif­fer­ent ingre­di­ents and the chem­istry of food changes from a sin­gle sugar-monosaccharide to a polysaccharide.

For instance, lets exam­ine mac­a­roni and cheese. We use cheese (a lac­tose sugar), we add a lit­tle milk (a lac­tose sugar), but­ter (a sat­u­rated fat), add the mac­a­roni (a mal­tose sugar depend­ing what is in the mac­a­roni); now you have three dif­fer­ent sug­ars, dif­fer­ent sac­cha­rides and com­plex car­bo­hy­drate. If you add a lit­tle apple­sauce you have added a fruc­tose sugar. If you add a salad or a dessert or a bev­er­age? For those peo­ple who say I never eat sugar,think again. Sugar is in most foods, and most foods have a com­bi­na­tion of sugars.

What I am say­ing loud and clear is that a fatty liver is caused by too many sug­ars and car­bo­hy­drates that clog the liver and form fatty depositst can turned into cir­rho­sis and liver cancer.

I am a great pro­po­nent of doing a liver cleanse once a year, and some­times twice if you have taken an antibi­otic, or have gone through a stress­full period in your life. Fast­ing is good. Take a day and drink only water or juice. Liver likes foods that are sour, like lemons, limes and grape­fruits, and teas such as red clover, net­tle, dan­de­lion and green.

The liver is the most impor­tant organ in our body because it affects all the other organs and their functions.

Remem­ber, sugar is more than just a candy bar; some­times there is less sugar in that candy bar than in some of the foods we eat.

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You may e-mail me with your com­ments and ques­tions at food_as_medicine@yahoo.com

Car­olyn Schoner is a doc­tor of Ori­en­tal Med­i­cine. Her prac­tice encom­passes the use of  Her­bol­ogy, Home­opa­thy, Cran­ioSacral Ther­apy, Vis­ceral Manip­u­la­tion Tui Na Mas­sage, Mox­a­bus­tion, heat ther­apy, Qua Sha, Gi Gong, vit­a­mins and min­er­als, essen­tial oils,  Bach Flower Reme­dies, diet coun­sel­ing, energy work, non-surgical face lifts and tummy tuck and acupunc­ture. She has been in prac­tice for 10 years. She con­ducted under­grad­u­ate stud­ies at Ohio State Uni­ver­sity, grad­u­ate stud­ies at Uni­ver­sity or Ari­zona, Ori­en­tal Med­i­cine at East West Col­lege, Cran­ioSacral and Vis­ceral Manip­u­la­tion at Upledger Insti­tute, blood chem­istry and med­ical imag­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami and Home­opa­thy and Homotoxicology/Women’s Health at the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety for Homotoxicology.

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