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- Hey, this is Dr. Ken Berry, family physician,

and I am 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 gonna talk about in this video.

So many people think that fatty liver disease

either in children or in adults

is just something that you're cursed with,

you have no choice in the matter,

you're just stuck with that.

Currently 40% 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 gonna 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 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 try it.

Because basically what they're telling you to do

is to starve 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 information for you

to be able to reverse your fatty liver disease now.

Most healthcare 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 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 gonna 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 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 needless fatty liver disease.

That's my goal.

Now, with over four billion people on the planet

suffering from this dangerous condition, fatty liver,

you would think that we would have multiple

randomized trials that were well-performed, in humans,

to figure out what's causing this and to reverse it.

Well, surprise surprise, there's not one.

Until now.

Until now.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers

have done a study,

and most of this video's gonna 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 experience

in the 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 pigs, humans

between the ages of nine 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

because those go hand in hand in 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

as 25% 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 of the kids got

a low-fat diet which consisted of 55% carbohydrates,

25% protein, and 20% fat.

So basically, it was a low-carb diet

versus a low-fat diet.

Now, which one do you think did the most

and reversed the most of the fat out of these kids' livers?

You might be surprised,

so 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.

All the kids and 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 to eat, they gave them meal plans.

And so, they made it very clear on 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.

Nobody knew where they were gonna wind up.

So there was no researcher bias that was able

to get into this study

like 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,

the other one 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 in, they did a three day food diary

so that the researchers were able to tell,

yep, this kid's 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, and 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 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 said oh, well yeah,

if you compare low-carb with real whole food

to somebody eatin' the standard American junk,

obviously that's gonna do better.

But both of these groups were eating real, whole foods.

So now lemme tell you what this study actually looked at,

what it measured.

And so, they took all these measurements

I'm about to tell you

at baseline, before the study began,

and then they took all these again at eight weeks

after the study finished.

And they did these studies in both groups.

So in 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.

Ultrasound's good, but MR is better.

And so, both groups got an MR of the abdomen

looking specifically at fatty liver,

how much fat was in their liver.

Both groups got a DXA body composition scan

both at the beginning and at the eight week mark.

Both groups got lab work including a fasting glucose,

a fasting insulin, a lipid panel, and an hs-CRP.

And the result of that are also recorded

in the conclusions of this study,

which is very interesting.

Both groups had their HOMA-IR,

it's a calculated measure of insulin resistance,

calculated at the beginning and at eight weeks.

And then they had their resting energy expenditure

calculated at the beginning and at eight weeks,

because the second big point about this study

is that there was no calorie restriction in either group.

What they did is they did an REE,

and 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 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 results of this study were.

And they're exactly what I expected them to be,

but I think many healthcare 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% of their body fat.

The low-fat group lost 0.4%.

'Kay?

The low-carb group lost 5.5% of their total fat mass

in their total body by DXA scan.

The low-fat group lost 0.1%.

'Kay, got that?

Now here's the biggie.

For liver fat, the low-carb group lost 32%

of their fat in their liver.

32%, a third of the fat in their liver was gone

after eight weeks of a low-carb diet.

And this diet, in my opinion, it was a lower-carb diet.

It was nowhere near a keto diet

or even what I would consider a low-carb diet.

But still, it was a relatively low-carb diet.

How much liver fat did the low-fat group lose?

1%.

So once and for all, we can put to bed the myth, the lie

that 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 diet.

So I mean, there's just no way.

Now both groups, what about,

you said oh, but I bet the low-carb group

lost some muscle mass, right?

Both groups held their lean body mass

the same through the entire study.

The DXA scan picked up 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 their liver labwork, their ALT and their AST

were significantly lower than the low-fat group

at the end of this 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 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 labs 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 low-carb group just ate fewer carbs

than the low-fat group.

That's the only difference.

This is the 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've 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, lemme sum up the findings of this study.

I want you to listen very carefully.

And this is one of the reasons

I need you to share this video,

because this is not equivocal at all.

This is very cut and dried in this study.

And there wasn't just a tiny 1.18% difference,

these are 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 DXA scan.

The low-carb group 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, the liptic panel, their total cholesterol,

their LDL, their HDL, their triglycerides stayed the same

from the beginning of the study to week eight.

It had no effect on their lipid panel

whether they were low carb or low fat.

And that's a huge deal.

So once and for all, calorie restriction, portion control,

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.

I think 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.

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's so many people

whose doctor is still telling them,

just move more and eat less, that's all we got.

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, healthcare providers.

And patients, stop listening to that.

Say wait a minute, isn't there a study?

Because now you've got the study.

All right.

Now I've got four other fatty liver videos

on this channel already

because that's what a big deal it is.

So I'm gonna put a link here and here

at the end of this video

so if you wanna learn more about fatty liver

or even fatty pancreas,

you can click one of those links and see more about that.

Please subscribe to this channel

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This is Dr. Berry.

I'm so happy to make this video, and I'll see you next time.