What if your food allergies, hay fever and asthma are actually caused by liver congestion?
What if by simple dietary changes and natural healing procedures you could eliminate allergies
and asthma?
Do you want to stop sneezing forever?
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I'm Dr. Andy Kaufman and this is the true health report.
Today, I'm going to talk about an unlikely connection between fatty liver and atopy,
which means allergies, asthma and atopic dermatitis.
And I'm going to focus on allergies and asthma today.
And I first heard about the connection between the liver and allergies
from Dr. Jennifer Daniels, who I learned much information from.
And this was very relevant for me because since I was a young boy,
I had allergies to several different types of fruits.
And what would happen is that I didn't go into anaphylactic shock,
but I would get an itchy mouth and swelling in my throat
and even difficulty breathing and hoarseness.
I went to an allergist and found out that this is called oral allergy syndrome
and was told that essentially there's really no cure.
I could carry an epi-pen around and I could get two to three years of allergy shots
and maybe or maybe not it would get better.
So for most of my childhood and adult life,
I avoided several fruits like apples, pears, peaches, nectarines and plums
to avoid this problem and especially cherries.
Because one time in my 20s, I was given a bag of cherries from the farmer's market
and I really wolfed them down because they tasted so good.
But I ended up with all those symptoms and it was like really bad
because I probably ate a pound and a half of those cherries in a very short time.
And I was scared that my airway was going to completely close up
and I would need to have a tracheotomy and be on a ventilator.
So at that time without knowledge of natural healing,
I took about 150 milligrams of Benadryl across my fingers and prayed
and it turned out okay thankfully.
But fast forward years later when I finally discovered natural healing
and heard this from Dr. Jennifer Daniels.
Well, there came a time when I decided to try the Gerson protocol
which is essentially a mixture of coffee enemas and juicing
and it's a protocol that is used for a very serious disease that I can't mention here.
However, after two weeks of doing this protocol,
I decided to test my allergies and take a bite of an apple
and lo and behold, no allergy symptoms.
The first time since I was a young baby
or that I can ever remember being able to eat that kind of fruit.
Now I tried many other fruits that I had been allergic to since then
and had no problem with any of them.
So this really was amazing to me and led me to a deeper dive into the rabbit hole.
And I'm going to share some of that research with you today.
Now, unfortunately, the medical scientific research community
has not really investigated this connection the proper way.
In other words, they haven't thought about,
could there either be a common cause between allergies and liver issues
like fatty liver or could the liver dysfunction actually cause the allergies?
But we still have some very compelling research data
that I might even say is fascinating to examine together.
So let's just start with a little bit of understanding
of what we're talking about here because we're talking about fatty liver,
which is a type of liver problem that is of a lower severity
than things you might have heard of like hepatitis, liver cancer,
cirrhosis, end stage liver disease, liver failure and things like that.
So this is usually such that at least according to mainstream medicine,
people won't even have any noticeable symptoms related to this level of liver dysfunction.
And the most reliable way to know that it's happening
is by looking at imaging studies that can measure the amount of fat in the liver
and they call it a fatty liver.
In other words, fat has infiltrated into the liver tissue
and this causes all sorts of problems with the function of the liver.
Now, this has been traditionally associated with people who drink alcohol very heavily,
but it's been recognized in recent decades that it occurs outside of people who drink
and they call it NAFLD or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
However, there are many other names for this condition
so it can be very, very confusing in the literature.
So I'm going to just avoid using those and just use the simple terminology of fatty liver.
Now, besides alcohol, since this occurs in people that don't have a heavy drinking background,
what are the other causes?
And I've highlighted this from a government website here
to see what it lists as the other causes
because if you go to a doctor, they're not going to be able to tell you all these things.
They'll generally say that fatty liver disease is either caused by alcohol
or it is a part of metabolic syndrome like people that have other metabolic issues
like diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
However, that's not necessarily the case, as we'll see here.
So here you can see that it lists as other causes.
One, malnutrition.
In other words, not having the right type of nutrients to support the liver's needs.
And then also it talks about toxins.
Now, it lists these pharmaceuticals as separate from toxins,
but I would say that all of these represent different types of chemicals
that are toxic to the liver and it specifically mentions HIV, drugs, corticosteroids,
estrogens and chemotherapy.
But there are many, many other drugs with a variety of liver toxicity,
including drugs like anticonvulsants and other drugs used in psychiatric applications
as well as some antibiotics and other very commonly used prescription drugs.
And then some toxins, which does not specify in this article,
but this is key when we talk a little bit later about how we might be able
to address this problem effectively.
Now, here's where it gets really interesting that apparently there is this phenomenon
between transplanting the liver and the recipient of that transplanted liver
acquiring a variety of allergy and asthma symptoms.
Now, this has been mostly reported to occur in children,
but here we have a case report of an adult and there have been others.
And I wanted to highlight this because in this particular situation,
we see that the donor, and I'll read the highlighted portion,
the donor was a 20 year old female who presented with severe shortness
of breath due to a presumed asthma attack.
Now, that's quite interesting because asthma and food allergies are related,
at least in some cases, according to the mainstream medical authorities.
And I'll read further.
Medical history was notable for atopy and allergies to peanuts,
chocolate, eggs, wheat, and shellfish.
So we have here that the donor whose liver it was,
who must have died and donated their liver to this recipient,
they had food allergies.
The recipient did not have food allergies,
but after they received the transplanted liver,
they developed food allergies.
Isn't that quite interesting?
So it's almost as if it came with the liver,
like something in the liver is containing or causing those allergies.
Now, you can find several other review articles and many other papers
documenting this phenomenon.
And here's one that is a review article and it notes that it occurs
more commonly in liver transplant recipients.
Now, it does, it has been reported to occur in other kinds of transplants.
However, almost all the organs that are reported to be transplanted
and lead to the development of allergies.
And they, by the way, with the other organs that occurs
at a much lower frequency than with liver transplants,
almost all the other organs that it can occur in
are directly in communication with the liver,
such as the pancreas, for example.
So it could be that there are liver cells that are associated
with those other organs and they might be there in smaller amounts
or that there's some specific relationship between these other digestive organs
and the liver that would explain allergies a little bit more clearly.
Now here is another paper that gives some specific numbers
and I'll read the highlighted portion.
Several reports have shown that transplant acquired food allergies
are more common after liver transplantation specifically.
The frequency of food allergy post-liver transplant
has been reported to range from 5.7 to 37%.
So in other words, more than a third of pediatric transplant
recipients develop food allergies after their liver transplant.
And it emphasizes here that the liver is the most common organ
where this occurs.
Now this is yet another study, but this one looks beyond just
food allergies and looks at atopic disease in general,
including allergic rhinitis, asthma, food allergies
and eczema, I believe.
And we can see here that in this particular population,
food allergy and atopic skin disease symptoms were present
in 40 and 56% of liver transplant recipients.
That is quite a lot, around half, and asthma, allergic rhinitis
or both were found in 66% of cases receiving a liver transplant.
And these occurred approximately 12 to 27 months after receiving
the transplant, and that was also found in the other cases.
Now of note, people that take transplant rejection medications
for other purposes or other types of transplants do not
develop these allergies.
So this is something specific about the liver and not due
to the immunosuppressive drugs.
And interestingly, you would reason that the transplant
rejection drugs, which suppress the immune system from
attacking the transplanted organ, or so they say, would
actually suppress allergy symptoms because they are said
to be caused by the immune system.
But that is the opposite of what occurs in this case
and with the liver transplants.
Now, I wanted to describe one other study which is not
related to transplants, and there are similar studies
looking at atopic dermatitis, but I could not find any
on food allergies or allergic rhinitis, but I did find
one on asthma and it looks from this very large government
curated database, the NHANES database, and it looks
here over a 17 year period.
And what this study does is it looks at out of this huge
database finds people that have fatty liver disease and
enough data to calculate what's called a fatty liver index
score.
And this is a semi validated score that the higher the
score, the more severe the fatty liver disease.
And what it does is in these three graphs, the graph
on the left looks at the overall population and then
the next two graphs separate out the men in the middle
and the women on the end.
And what you can see is on the X axis is the fatty liver
index score.
So as you move to the right, the liver disease is more
severe in each graph.
And on the Y axis is the incidence or the odds ratio
actually of asthma, so asthma risk.
And we can see here that what happens is there is a
baseline risk at the left side of the graph.
And then as the severity of fatty liver goes up to the
right, you can see that there is either a flat or a dip
until it gets to the more severe fatty liver.
And then you see the curve start to take off.
And this is even more pronounced in women who don't
even have the dip.
They don't really have an elevated risk until their
fatty liver gets to a more advanced state.
Whereas the men have a similar pattern, but they
have a higher risk earlier on and at baseline.
So I think really here this shows a very interesting
relationship between the liver being infiltrated with
fat and losing function and with the development of asthma.
From this information, we can definitely infer quite
an interesting relationship between fatty liver
and its associated dysfunction and various types of allergic
and atopic syndromes like food allergies and asthma,
as well as allergic rhinitis and atopic dermatitis.
So is it possible then because it hasn't been directly
studied, so I can't say with certainty, but is it possible
that it's actually the liver dysfunction that potentially
causes these various types of allergic problems or atopic
problems and this certainly would fit with my own personal
experience where I worked on my liver and was able to get
rid of food allergies and Dr. Jennifer Daniels reported
similar results in some of her constituents as well.
So this at a minimum merits a lot of further scientific
investigation.
However, there are some things that you can do to work on
your liver if you suffer from allergies, including food
allergies, hay fever or asthma for sure and possibly eczema,
which is one to work on your nutrition.
So this means eliminating foods like processed foods,
especially processed carbs and sugars as well as
preservatives, emulsifying agents in a number of other
things, eliminating those from your diet.
I'm also including artificial sweeteners and fortifying
your diet with whole foods that provide the nutrients
that your liver needs such as B vitamins, a sulfur containing
amino acids like cysteine and methionine, branched chain
amino acids, as well as some essential trace minerals like
zinc, copper and manganese.
So if you can get those things in your diet and of course
I forget to mention glycine, ever important amino acid and
find the foods that have those nutrients and focus on
those while eliminating the causes.
Now you also want to eliminate your exposure to other
types of liver toxins and these could be many things
including of course heavy metals, but also a variety
of different types of chemical solvents, degreaser and
industrial cleaners, things that you may have occupational
exposure to off gassing chemicals from building materials
and new furniture as well as sources of micro plastics
like tea bags and plastic food packaging, especially when
you put them in the microwave.
So if you learn about liver toxins and of course I
should not neglect to mention various pharmaceuticals and
reduce your or eliminate your exposure to those and then
there are two excellent supplements that can really augment
your liver's detoxification function and natural healing
and those are milk, thistle seed as well as NAC and
acetyl cysteine.
These two have very similar actions and effects on the
liver.
I prefer milk, thistle being a natural product, whereas
NAC may actually occur in some foods.
We may make some in our body from certain amino acid
substrates, but when it's sold in a pill, it's made in a
chemical factory.
That being said, there is a lot of research on the benefits
of NAC, so I have nothing against it from that point
of view.
Now, of course, there are some much more potent and
comprehensive natural procedures to address your liver's
fatty infiltration and dysfunction, but I really
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So today we've covered a very interesting topic, one
that mainstream medicine really does not seem interested
in pursuing properly and even when I looked on YouTube
and other information platforms like that, I could not find
any specific material on the connection between your fatty
liver issues and your allergies, but that's what I've
covered today.
We reviewed how people who receive liver transplants
along with that often receive food allergies, asthma
and allergic rhinitis.
We saw the strong relationship between fatty liver
disease and asthma.
And then we talked about the causes of fatty liver and
things that you can do to help correct the situation and
say goodbye to those allergies and asthma forever.
Well, I know I've enjoyed this time and I hope this was
valuable learning experience for you and I'll see you
again on the next true health report.
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