Hormone Health and your Liver

My Notes From The Healthy Gut Summit

Dr. Sara Gottfried

The liver is key to hormone health and easily overwhelmed especially by endocrine disruptors and environmental toxins. Endocrine disruptors are zenoestrogens we get exposed to that are plastics and pesticides. They disrupt your endocrine system and the endocrine receptors, also your gut microbiome and your liver. This is creating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, we now know that if you test and your ALT is above 20 for women and 30 for men that’s non-alcoholic fatty liver going on. A study showed 30% of women in the U.S. has this problem and 50% in Texas where they have more exposure to organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors, this is a major issue. Continue reading