How can I take care of my liver?

An indulgent lifestyle? We all know it is bad for our livers, but we seem invincible, our bodies appear to cope and recover?  I used to think so too, but as I have moved away from my old lifestyle and refined my diet and thoughts about health my feeling have changed massively.  Do we really understand the effect the poisons we use regularly are having on our bodies and our long term health?  I fear not.

Our liver is responsible for controlling the toxic load our body faces.  Each day it is desperately trying to clean our tissues and blood of:

-Pharmaceutical Medications
-Alcohol
-Smoking
-Saturated Fat
-Fumes
-Chemical body products
-Cleaning Products
-Parasites
-Normal Body Function by-products

Our liver is our largest internal organ and is responsible for over 500 functions in the body.  It weighs in at around 1.5kg and filters 1.4 litres of blood every minute. On an average day at the office our lovely liver...

-Manufactures amino acids
-Stores and releases glycogen for energy
-purifies blood of bacteria, toxins, parasites, pathogens, unwanted microbes
-Stores fat soluble vitamins
-Produces bile and regulates our metabolism

This handful of functions out of the 500 are already impressive and are basically responsible for our energy levels, our immune function, our hormone levels, our mood, our weight, our sex drive and our ability to cope with life. 

With this in mind, a healthy liver is something we desperately need if we are to survive in this complicated world, blimey, we have enough to deal with, without having to struggle with the symptoms of an overworked liver.

I urge you to LOVE YOUR LIVER!

Give it:

-Plenty of water
-A 51% raw diet which stands a chance of giving it the nutrients it needs to perform
-Time off from drinking and smoking if you possibly can
-Garlic
-Grapefruit
-Green Leafy Vegetables
-Dandelion and Artichoke supplements or tinctures
-Raw Cabbage
-A Hulda Clark Liver Flush http://www.drclark.net/info/liver.htm
-LOVE and kindness
-A gentle massage before bed with rhythmic motions

Phew. Yeah.  So there are some things you can do, to at least support your wonderful, fantastic, once in a lifetime liver.

Be kind to it, and if you are going to abuse it, at least make up for it in between with the right foods and some tender, loving care.

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