Hot Health Topic: How High-Fat Diets Prime the Liver for Cancer

In this hot health topic episode of Accelerated Health with Sara Banta, I talk about a critical and often misunderstood issue: how high-fat diets can prime the liver for cancer.
I talk about how certain dietary fats affect liver metabolism, inflammation, insulin resistance, and cellular signaling—creating conditions that may increase liver damage and cancer risk over time. 

This episode also explores the difference between supportive fats and harmful ones, how fatty liver disease can progress, and what research reveals about diet-driven liver stress long before symptoms appear.

If you’re following a high-fat diet or simply want to protect your liver, reduce cancer risk, and support metabolic health, this episode offers important insights you won’t want to miss.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Any health related information on the following show provides general
information only. Content presented on any show by any host
or guest should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
or treatment program.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Could your high fat hetogenic diet be increasing your risk
for liver cancer? Well, a new study from MIT has
confirmed what functional practitioners have been observing for years. A
consistent high fat diet rewires the liver, weakens it's resilience,
dramatically increases the risk of liver cancer. Welcome to Accelerated

(00:53):
Health of Sara Banta, the show where we cut through
the noise fast track your journey to real health. I'm
your host, Sarah, certified nutritionists and founder of Accelerated Health Products.
Each week, I share the science, fact supplements, detox strategies
and wellness tools that actually work. So let's dive in.
Your liver is not just overburdened by food if it's

(01:16):
overwhelmed by the toxins, the endocrine disruptors, the halogens, fluoride, bromide, chlorine,
seed oils, medications and metabolic stress that compounds everything and
the effects of your diet. The good news your liver
can repair. So all of this that we're talking about,
it's so confusing. Keto, carnivore, low fat, vegan. What are

(01:40):
we supposed to do? Everyone is trying to find that key.
What to eliminate? Do we need probiotics? Do we need
to eat to eat more tumoric? Do we need to
reach for peptides? Our world is not what it used
to be, and so it's become very difficult to navigate
to get to where we want to go. We have

(02:02):
unexplained symptoms, chronic disease, increase cancer risk, unexplained weaking, no energy,
increased anxiety, all of these things, and we just want
to feel good. So this is making it even more
difficult because you all, a lot of you have tried
the keto diet, high fat, cutting the carbs, and now

(02:23):
there's a risk of more cancer in the liver. I
thought it's supposed to be good for the liver because
the liver suffers when you have insulin resistance and that's
supposed to come from sugar, right, Well not exactly. So
what did MIT find? They found that the high fat
diets push liver cells towards cancer. They discovered that when

(02:45):
the liver is repeatedly exposed to a high fat diet,
the hepatocytes, the primary liver cells, begin to revert to
an immature stem cell like state. This shift does two things.
It helps cells survive a toxic environment in the short term,
and it increases their long term risk of becoming cancerous.

(03:06):
In simple terms, when the liver is under continuous metabol extress,
it sacrifices the normal function to stay alive, but that
survival strategy makes more vulnerable to dangerous mutations. The cells.
Regression is driven by inflammation, toxic build up, mitochondrial dysfunction.

(03:27):
We're all trying to fix our mitochondria. That's what all
these peptides and stem cells and anti aging hacks are
supposed to go after. Because it's all about the mitochondria.
Then we also have the overloaded detox pathways, impaired bile
flow that biles the detergent to get the junk out
of the system. Endocrine disruption. Your endocrine system is your thyroid,

(03:51):
your pituitary, your adrenals, your ovaries, testes, all of that stuff,
and if that's not working, you're going to feel horrible.
Then nutritional deficiencies, which even if you're eating a whole food,
organic diet, high fat, low fat, whatever it is, you're

(04:11):
not absorbing the nutrients that we once did because we
all have leaky gut or our soils are depleted, and
so we're not getting the nutrients that we once got.
What's the result, fatty liver disease. Over fifty percent of
you have it. Over twenty five percent of our children
have fatty liver disease, which was once only with alcoholism.

(04:33):
Then we all have metabolic dysfunction, increased liver cancer susceptibility,
and this is showing up in younger people. Why does
this matter? The study did not happen in a vacuum.
Like I said, we are not our grandparents' generation. We
are living in an environment where the liver is facing
pressures it was never meant to handle. Even me, I'm boring.

(04:54):
I don't drink alcohol, I eat clean as much as
I can, I exercise, I do all the same things.
A year ago, my liver was like I can't do
this anymore. Enzymes were through the roof. I was hit
with a parasitic infection, shingles, covid exposure, all of these
things all at once, and my liver said, I'm tapping out.
Thank goodness, I have tricks and tools to get it back.

(05:18):
And that is why I pound into you the importance
of your liver. It could be the hidden cause of
your unexplained waking, your unexplained brain fog, hormonal disruption. If
you want to decide whether you're doing HRT or not,
or if you're doing peptides or not, whatever it is,

(05:39):
your liver's got to process all of it. None of
it's going to work unless your liver's working. You got
to address the foundation. So we are living in this
world of microplastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, seed oils, mold, toxins, processed foods,
endocrine disruptors. Even that organic keytgenic low carb protein barrier

(06:03):
eating it might have some hidden emulsifiers, artificial sweeteners that
back up the liver, things that you think are innocent,
and they're not. It's not so simple, and so that's
why I'm here to help drive home what you can
do make your body more resilient to these things, because

(06:23):
we're all going to be exposed to them. Right I've
got vegetables in my fridge right now that are organic
wrapped in plastic. You can't get away from it. And
then you add in the high fat diet, the liver
becomes overwhelmed. Well, this is the problem. A lot of
us have become fat malabsorbed. What does that mean. It

(06:44):
means our livers cannot process fat, So even the healthy
fats could be overstressing your liver. That's why I don't
recommend a high fat hetogenic diet for most people. Some
people can handle it. I will go through periods where
my health is atle bit more compromised. Got to stay

(07:04):
on a low fat diet in there are days and
weeks where I'm running like a smooth running machine and
I can have a high fat meal no problem. So
if you're getting nauseous or feel this upper right quadrant
of your gut kind of like bloated, that's where your

(07:25):
liver is when you need a high fat meal. Your
body saying I can't do this right now. This is
the truth, though. The good news you can reverse or
prevent these changes by shifting your metabolic environment, supporting the
detox pathways, avoiding dietary patterns like the high fat ketogenic

(07:45):
diet that stress your liver even more so. What do
you do. You know, I've seen people increase their chloric intake,
but take care of the fine tune machine, the liver,
the thyroid, the gut, and they're able to lose weight,
lose inflammation. An example is my own daughter going off

(08:08):
to college, eating things that are out of her control.
She comes home for Christmas break, she's losing inflammation, losing weight,
not because she's cutting calories. She's probably eating more, but
it's actually real food and it's good for you food.
And then we've uped some of the supplements we're going
to talk about. So what do you do You want

(08:30):
to focus regardless of what diet you're on. Wild animal protein,
not the chicken, not the poultry, not the conventional beef.
Those have amaloid proteins, and I talk about that on
my website, Sarah Banta health dot com and other podcasts.
So dive into that. These amloid proteins don't get broken down,
They burden the liver, they disrupt the gut, all of

(08:51):
those things. Wild animal protein, pison, medicon elk lamb, wildfish,
there's so many sources of it. You can cook it
just like beef and chicken, really easy. Stop your freezer.
I love Force of Nature dot Com. I'll put the
link below. They've got ground everything. I'm actually gonna go

(09:13):
make my lunch and it takes about three minutes. Venison
ground in a pan with some vegetables. Super easy, lean
meat that has these amino acids and the protein that
assimilate in your body, very easy on your liver and
your gut, and your body loves it. Fills you up,
cuts the cravings for the sugar, right. It's rich in

(09:33):
the amino acids, minerals, and low in the toxins. Then
you can fill in with some fats. I like to
just focus on the fats that naturally come with my meat.
That's it. I don't really dump in butter or olive
oil even I just kind of use that animal protein
as my source of fat and stick to the lower
cuts of the leaner cuts. The carbohydrates. I'm not a

(09:58):
low carb person. Love my fruits and my vegetables, and
I pick them according to the Accelerated Food Guide. The
ones that are not full of oxalates or sulfur. Those
things can disrupt your liver and your detox pathways, causing
inflammation and waking. And here you are eating low carb
veggies that could be triggering waking. Yeah, they could slow

(10:20):
down your thyroid causing brain fog. Onions, garlic, kale, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli,
all of these vegetables that were told are good for
you could be triggering inflammation and a slower metabolism for you.
Everybody's different, so that's where you can eliminate some of

(10:42):
these foods. Add that back in and see how your
body reacts. If you're eating them on a daily basis,
you don't know if they're the ones that are causing
the issue. So this pattern will help stabilize your blood sugar,
support the hormonal health, reduce liver strain, and you're not
going to get into this position where you're increasing your

(11:03):
livery at cancer risk. But then you use the supplements
to really clean out those detox pathways upregulate your metabolism.
We're all about a metabolismy reset as we enter twenty
twenty six. That is my goal for you, not just
for the weight loss, but to maintain that muscle, lose

(11:23):
the fat and feel amazing, have the energy to jump
out of bed, and the energy that doesn't die at
three in the afternoon. The energy that doesn't make you
get annoyed by your kids or your spouse on just
the flip of a dime, so that you feel steady
and you're not rocked and you get to sleep. Wouldn't

(11:44):
that be amazing. We want to address our liver because
our liver affects all of the things that I just
talked about, including your sleep. So what we do, We're
going to focus on opening the detox pathways, improving the
bile flow, of supporting your mitochondria, cleaning out the toxins safely,
because remember we're not going to get away from them.

(12:05):
Boosting your immunity anyone gets sick over the holidays. That's
where we want to address our immunity, because if our
immune system is taxed by a cold or a flu
or something over here, it's going to lower its metabolism
and all of its other functions over here, restoring your
iodine and mineral sufficiency and increasing the metabolic flexibility. And yeah,

(12:29):
even without a high fat diet, I'm going to teach
you how to get into ketosis. There's a way to
do it. Teach your body to burn its own fat,
but then also to be able to burn glucose and
be flexible. So number one is accelerated liver care. This
was the game changer. When my liver enzymes were through
the roof. My liver was like hijacked by so many things,

(12:52):
and this supplement brought down my enzymes within two weeks.
It is designed to support phase one, two and three
detoxification and increase that bile flow and get the bowels moving,
get the toxins out. If you're not pooping, those toxins
are recycling and that's not what we want. So it
helps with the bile flow. It will help with digestion.
Eb even liver is part of your digestion fat metabolism

(13:17):
and clears out though that excess bad estrogen. Everyone talks about.
It increases the resilience of the liver and it also
helps with your immunity. Okay, so there's ingredients like cooke, defhilanthus,
tunka andrographis milk, this salt skull cap. And then there's
one called poalpereia. You've probably never heard of it. Look

(13:39):
it up. Multiple studies on liver cancer anceerrhosis. It's amazing.
Next is accelerated fast. This is the key to get
into ketosis without eating a high fat diet. I take
it in the morning and I can take it with
my liver care, and it teaches your body to burn

(14:01):
its own fat for fuel. It takes the fat in
your body and converts into ketones much more seamlessly, so
you can get into ketosis enjoy the fat burning and
autophagy benefits without eating that high fat diet. It shifts
you into that fat burning mode, increases mental clarity, reduces
the cravings and blood sugar swings. I work out fasted.

(14:26):
With the accelerated fast, it takes away the stress on
my body that is associated with fasting because it is
providing my body with my own body fat for fuel,
and so my body is not stressed out. And it
increases that mitochondrial function up being the ATP production supporting autophagy. Autophagy,

(14:48):
what is that? That's a cellular cleanup. That is the
cleanup of all the bad stuff that we want to
get rid of. So we're antiaging and not promoting cancerous
tumors or disease cells in the body. Okay, so it's
helping you with metabolic flexibility. I still eat my carbs,

(15:09):
but I'm fasted and in a ketogenic state in the
morning of my day and overnight. It helps with the
fat loss, reducing inflammation, cleaning up the detox pathways, and
enhancing your longevity. Now the third supplement, I can't name it,
but it kills and helps devitalize all of those pathogens,

(15:31):
the viruses, bacteria, all that stuff. Because remember, if your
immune system is working on a virus over here, it's
going to slow down everything over here. It's going to
slow down yourbolic rate, your liver function, your thyroid, all
of those things. This supplement is the one supplement that
started my business because it was so amazing, I said,

(15:55):
I have to do something with this. It strengthens the
immunity while reducing the li or burden, helps with the
microbial load, does not hit or kill any of the
good bacteria in your body. If you want to know
which one this is, you can go to serabantehealth dot
com for the article, or you can DM me below

(16:15):
and I'll let you know what it is. But Google
doesn't like the name of it, so I'm not allowed
to say it. Number four accelerating iodine. Now, this one
not only supports your thyroid and metabolism and fat burning,
but it cleans your blood so your liver can do
its job. It increases ATP in every cell of the body.

(16:36):
It takes that cell membrane. It supports it because every
cell membrane has an IODO lipid value, iodine and fat,
so it's made of iodine and fat. You cannot have
a healthy cell membrane without iodine. And that cell membrane
is the brain that says, oh, I feel safe to
let the toxins out and I feel safe to let

(16:56):
the nutrients in. It increases metabolic graape, help with the
ATP in the mitochondria, helps detoxification, cleans out the bad
estrogens out of the body. It also helps with your
liver function. Now, Acceleradinidine is the only idine that is monoatomic.
One molecule of iodine paired with the most efficient carrier,

(17:17):
which is non GMO organic to underproof alcohol, not glycerine,
not a cheap alcohol. This is very important. So these
supplements are going to give you that whole system approach
to protect your liver. It is going to create a
terrain where the hepatocites remain healthy, the detox pathways are open,

(17:40):
mitochondrial output improves in inflammation, decreases fat, metabolism improves, and
we are protecting ourselves. So this study is really important
and it brings up something that I've thought for a
long time because I don't feel good on a high
fat diet. Never worked for me. So what do you

(18:01):
focus on? That high wild animal protein. You want to
hit at least one gram of protein per pound of
body weight. Now, if you have a hard time eating
all of that, you can incorporate the accelerated aminos One
serving is an easy thirty grams of protein, super easy
to hate your protein marks, Increase or incorporate the fats

(18:23):
according to how you feel. Like I said, I only
have the fats that come with the animal protein. Get
your carbohydrates from whole foods according to the Accelerated Food
Guide that is below as well. Avoid the seed oil's,
processed food, alcohol, anything that is packaged. Walk, improve your limph,

(18:44):
bounce and lift heavyweights. Sleep is important. Sauna sweating You
can hydrate with the accelerated ancient salt that gets that
intracellular hydration super important. You know that you use more
salt and more iodine under stress. Your dreanals need it,
and if your drenals are using your iodine in salt.

(19:07):
Not enough is getting to your thyroid, slows downiard metabolism
and you don't feel good. So hopefully this was helpful.
I want to hear from you. Have you tried a
high fat diet? Has it worked for you? Maybe it
worked for you for a couple months and then a plateaued.
That happens a lot, and there's a reason. Thanks for
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