Posts Tagged ‘liver health’
Keeping your liver in good shape through cleansing is truly the vital key to having the best overall health you can! This amazing organ has well over a few hundred various jobs to do in the human body! It is truly the front line of protection dealing with any toxins; the livers primary role is to make bad toxins into forms that can be safely and easily flushed from the body as waste. Also, all the nutrients taken in via the gastrointestinal tract goes into the bloodstream by means of your liver, so as you can see liver health is vital!
The liver releases crucial digestive secretions that help facilitate food digestion in addition to cleaning the blood as well. Toxins, pollution, pesticides, and contaminated soil and water are inhaled or taken in regular day to day activity. People’s exposure to these elements is also made worse by the use of steroid use, certain medications, any smoking, and the overconsumption of liquor, and processed foods. Many do not have access to adequate fresh drinking water either. With the support of the healthy liver, people naturally flush the metabolic waste substances and toxins made from the metabolic processes our bodies normally go through. Our livers also have a huge impact on our hormonal system, it helps to modulate and balance our bodily hormone activity levels to ensure proper neurological function. With the processed meals, and nutrient deficient goods people eat these days, plus the external pollution of the air we breathe and the water we drink, our liver has to work harder these days to cleanse our bodies maintain normal metabolic activity.
This where doing a simple core liver cleanse can really come in handy, and help give your liver the opportunity to do cleanse the rest of the body, after all what good is a tool if it’s not working properly right? The good news is a core liver cleanse is devoid of any fancy ingredients or elaborate concoctions. While I advise looking at different cleansing products out there to see if any suit your needs, you can also do some simple liver cleanses at home too. What I advise is juicing a couple glasses of beet juice, celery juice, cucumber juice, and carrot juice and drinking it through the day. These all work synergistically to help remove excess water and waste plus they deliver vital nutrients that support the liver too, and give it the opportunity and fuel it needs to regenerate so it can work for you again the way it should. Drink plenty of pure filtered water too, i advise around 2-3 liters for women (depending on weight and size) and about 3-4 for men (same size rules apply).
I recommend not eating much solid food, and should you do so, keep it raw, and whole, no man made foods, do that along with regular juicing, then about 3-7 days into the core liver cleanse you should notice a huge difference in how you feel. You may feel a bit sick during this process but that’s totally normal because your body is finally eliminating all those nasty built up toxins, so keep it up and see it through your body will thank you.
Radiologists and gastroenterologists who are examining the typical patient in modern times would tell you that over 50% of people over 50 have what’s commonly known as a “fatty liver”. Generally if people have fatty livers they often have other very diseased and poorly running organs or parts of the organs as well. This has certainly been the case for myself when I was eating nothing but junk all the time, I had gallbladder attacks, occasional kidney pain, acidic stool which burned, and my urine was extremely dark which was a sign I wasn’t getting nearly enough water and nutrients in my diet. What’s worse is that some have abused alcohol over the years and its wreaked havoc on their liver, the good news is you CAN improve you livers condition with a total cleanse, your body has an amazing ability to heal itself; you simply need to give it the time, and nutrients to do so.
Your liver is an amazing organ, especially considering what it’s bombarded with on a day to day basis, but there are reasons as to why it’s health secrets are not known to enough people. Some in the medical community feel a total cleanse and the general idea of detoxifying your body is a bit extreme, and that eating healthy and moderate regular exercise is ENOUGH. This might have been the case a 100 or more years ago for many people. But modern life has prevented even those basic and very sound habits from being enough over time. This is because not all of our toxicity comes from food. We now live extremely sedentary lives in the unhealthy and stale air of our homes, and then when we want to go outside for refreshing air, we have all manner of pollution, chemicals, and allergens entering our system just through breathing! So instead of Being paranoid, a simple liver cleanse now and again will keep your body running in much better shape. After all your liver functions as your body’s main detoxifying organ, so wouldn’t it be wise to make sure it’s running in top shape?
Here are small simple guidelines to an easy to maintain if not daily liver cleanse and improve liver health:
4-6 Liters of water each day: Frankly this rule should be followed daily as it will have the greatest impact on your liver and overall health, and is one of the biggest contributors to the rapid weight loss experienced by heavier individuals. Please make sure you are using well filtered bottled water or well water.
1-4 Cups of green Tea throughout the day: Generally it’s best to do fresh brewed green or white tea, but if all you can buy is bottled, my recommendation would be Ito En’s Oi Ocha, and this bottled green tea is lightly brewed with whole tea leaves and only has vitamin C to preserve it for shipping and shelving.
2-4 Glasses of the Detox Combo I always Recommend: have 2-4 Glasses of beetroot,A shot of wheatgrass juice, Carrot and Cucumber juice; these can be mixed together with a bit of ginger or apple juice to sweeten the flavor.
