March 24, 2025 – Newsletter Archive

How to Prevent Fatty Liver Part 3

To eat or not to eat? That’s the big question!

It is much easier to say what you should eat than what you should not eat. The body may be likened to a motor vehicle with a gas engine. No one would consciously put diesel in a gas operated engine. This would affect the performance of the vehicle. We can put diesel in a gas engine if the engine has been altered to make it compatible with diesel. Until such takes place, the prudent thing to do is to use gas.

Our body is designed to perform optimally when we consume substances that are in alignment with it. These substances are considered as naturally occurring in as much as our body is considered as naturally occurring. We can consume substances that are not considered naturally occurring if our body has been altered to accommodate them. Until such alteration has taken place, the prudent thing to do is to engage in natural eating.

Natural eating emphasizes consuming foods in their most natural form, like fruits, vegetables, grains, and lean proteins, rather than relying on heavily processed or packaged foods. It means avoiding foods that are extensively processed or refined. Natural eating involves steering clear of artificial colours, flavours, preservatives, and other synthetic substances that are often added to processed foods.

Since our ‘real’ food is considered as naturally occurring as we are, why do we experience processed food as more favourable than many naturally occurring foods?

We find them more favorable because processed food is loaded with ingredients that tap into the pleasure centers in our brain. In this way, processed food can be likened to street drugs. Processed food are deliberately manufactured to ignite pleasure and motivation which leads to cravings and potentially addictive behavior.

Processed food, especially those rich in saturated fats, trans fats, and added sugars, can cause fatty liver and injure liver cells. If this condition progresses, it can lead to cirrhosis, a severe form of liver scarring. Cirrhosis can eventually lead to liver failure and even liver cancer.

SelfCare Activity

Identify four reasons why process food is bad for you?
What did the manufacturers do to make processed food so appealing to you?
What strategies can you employ to make process food less attractive or to limit its consumption?
This week plan your meals and snacks in advance to ensure you have healthy options readily available. In as much as is possible, prepare your meals at home so you can control the ingredients and avoid hidden additives and unhealthy fats.

SelfCare Weekly Recipe

Chlorophylls is the most abundant pigments on Earth. While a diet rich in vegetables and green fruits may provide a substantial amount of chlorophylls, food processing may affect their impact on human health. Hence, eating these foods close to their natural form is advisable.

Chlorella Smoothie
1 ½ cup frozen Blueberries
1 ripe Banana
½ tsp Chlorella
½ tsp Lemon juice

Blend and enjoy.

SelfCare Personal Development Sayings

Spend one hour of each day learning something new. Internalize the knowledge you have derived.
When history is forgotten, humans are poised for regression. Incorporate your history in sayings, poetry, and songs. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Wisdom is the willingness and courage to choose the most rational action or decision based on knowledge, reason, understanding, integrity, and experience. Get wisdom.
If your close friends are lacking in direction, you will soon experience a sense of being lost.
Give yourself the opportunity to see things differently. But remember, when your perspective of the situation changes, you have changed.

Frankincense & Myrrh: What you Need to Know

I find an herbal formula containing Frankincense and Myrrh to do exceptionally well in complex medical cases. In fact, it is my ‘initial go-to’ in all such situations.

While traditional natural remedies are known to have a more effective therapeutic advantage in treating especially chronic diseases due to their multi-target and multi-channel characteristics, a combination of Frankincense and Myrrh seems magically powerful.

When Frankincense and Myrrh are combined, there is synergistic anti-inflammation, synergistic anticancer, synergistic analgesic, synergistic antibacterial, synergistic blood-activation and lymphatic modulation, just to name a few actions. These synergistic pharmacological effects have been confirmed more and more in modern experimental research.

The influence of Frankincense and Myrrh on breast and liver cancer is remarkable. It is also said that Frankincense and Myrrh in combination have superior healing properties on oral ulcer compared to triamcinolone acetonide. Herbal formula containing Frankincense and Myrrh are usually used in cases of:

Poor blood circulation and stasis
Inflammation
Swelling
Pain
Breast Cancer
Gastric cancer
Liver cancer as well as,
Wound and skin ulcers.

Subscribers Ask:

I am experiencing pain and tenderness in my right upper abdomen. I think it is my fatty liver. My doctor does not believe it is. Can my fatty liver cause pain and tenderness?

When fat makes up more than 5% to 10% of the total weight of your liver, you have fatty liver. Depending on the extent of fat accumulation, liver cells can be injured. Injury happens if the amount of fat being deposited reaches a level of toxicity. This means, the amount of fat in the cell is beyond what the cell can accommodate and remain healthy. The cell experiences ill health as stress and mitochondria (substance in the cell that generates energy) dysfunction. To remedy the situation, inflammation sets in. Inflammation is a normal process that takes place in your body. It occurs to remedy injury and infection. But inflammation has four cardinal signs -redness, swelling, heat and pain. A very fatty liver is often inflamed because the cells are injured. This means, depending on the extent of fatty liver, the liver can be both tender and painful. Often, individuals with fatty liver experience an uncomfortable sensation of the liver rubbing against the rib cage.

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