Moment 183: The Warning Signs Your Body Needs More Nutrients: Dr Mindy Pelz

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So how do I know if my liver is healthy? Is there any symptoms of an unhealthy or toxic liver?

Mindy Pelz (1:02)

Well, let's go through possibilities. I call them checklists. Okay. And the reason I call them checklists is because they may not apply to everybody. The first question to ask if your liver is healthy is, when you go without food, do you make a ketone? Okay. If you don't make a ketone, and you're like, we've had people that are like 20 hours in, 36 hours in, 48 hours in, they're like, I'm still not making a ketone.

Steven Bartlett (1:27)

How do they know?

Mindy Pelz (1:28)

because we have them testing.

Steven Bartlett (1:30)

Okay.

Mindy Pelz (1:30)

So a little ketone. The continuous glucose monitors, they'll help the blood sugar, but you need a ketone reader to help ketones. It's like a little, you prick your finger. Have you ever used one?

Steven Bartlett (1:43)

No, that's so interesting. I didn't know those were even a thing.

Mindy Pelz (1:46)

Oh, yeah, you should get one. So you get a little monitor.

Steven Bartlett (1:50)

Yeah.

Mindy Pelz (1:50)

And you prick your finger, and then you put your blood on this little strip, and you put the strip into this little monitor, and it tells you how many ketones you have.

Steven Bartlett (1:59)

Okay, so more ketones, the better, right?

Mindy Pelz (2:01)

Yeah.

Steven Bartlett (2:01)

Okay, interesting.

Mindy Pelz (2:03)

So if you can't make ketones or you're starving, would be another, or after a long period, you're not feeling the benefits of fasting. That could be because of your liver. So we now have, okay, that's liver issue number one. Okay. Then we can go to things like, how do you process alcohol? Like, you know how there's certain people who like you go out to drink with them, and after a couple of drinks, they're dancing on the table and then there's other people that like can drink the whole bar and they seem like they're completely normal compared to when they walked in.

Steven Bartlett (2:36)

Yeah.

Mindy Pelz (2:37)

That's liver function. Like how quickly is that liver metabolizing that alcohol?

Steven Bartlett (2:44)

Which one is healthy, sorry?

Mindy Pelz (2:46)

Well, I actually think metabolizing it quickly is better than the stagnant person.

Steven Bartlett (2:51)

So the person that's hammered is going to be...

Mindy Pelz (2:54)

Yeah. So, I mean, there's a lot of nuance in that comment. So just so we don't get the whole world coming after you or I on that. So it's how quickly are you able to metabolize a toxin in your system and get it out of you. So that would be another one. Then we have some really, really good ones, really like applicable ones, like this is based off some old ancient strategies, like corner of your eye. If the inside of your eye is yellow, according to iridology, which is the study of the eye as it relates to health, when the corner of the eye is yellow, that can be a sign of liver stagnation.

Okay. Another one.

Steven Bartlett (3:38)

The inside corner.

Mindy Pelz (3:39)

Yeah.

Steven Bartlett (3:39)

So next to your nose.

Mindy Pelz (3:41)

Okay. Another one. You can look at the bottom of your feet. So bottom of your feet, when they're dry and cracking, is showing that you're not getting proper circulation down to your feet. And so it can be a possibility that the liver is not doing a good job of detoxing and getting toxins out. So your circulatory system has more sludge in it. So the circulation isn't freely getting down to the bottom of your feet.