Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

I had a question recently that I wanted to answer, and this was a question,

will a liver cleanse help my cirrhosis, or will it help my fatty liver?

My ammonia is high, and is the liver cleanse going to help me?

So let's just talk about that.

Now, the first thing you should know about cirrhosis, it's an advanced situation.

In fact, your risk for cancer goes way up.

80% of people with liver cancer have some type of cirrhosis going on,

because cancer tends to grow in damaged tissue.

And as you damage the liver, certain things don't work anymore.

There's an enzyme called arginase.

This is an enzyme that is involved in something called the urea cycle.

See, when you break down protein into amino acids, the extra amount of it has to go through as waste, nitrogen waste.

So arginase is necessary and making sure that happens,

making sure that there's a complete breakdown so it can exit the body without any toxicity.

If there's not enough arginase in the liver, we get an incomplete breakdown of arginine.

This is an amino acid.

Then we get higher amounts of ammonia in the blood, which can travel up to the brain.

And that can create a lot of different side effects, like coma, dementia, all sorts of brain problems,

seizures, tremors.

...