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“A man’s liver is his carburettor." |
Anyway, the liver is one of the largest organs in the body, and is reddish in color. It sits on the upper right side of the abdomen just below the diaphragm. A healthy liver can weigh up to three pounds.
Blood brings gas we inhale from the atmosphere, digested food, as well as any chemicals and toxins we ingest with our food and prescription drugs, to the liver to be processed.
The Liver Neutralizes Liver Toxins
The healthy liver carries out so many functions that I really do not know where to begin. It carries out around five hundred processes! Wow, that's a lot of processes, it is mind boggling!
Anyway let us look at some of the main functions of a healthy liver:
1. Produces bile that helps digest fat. Bile breaks fat in the small intestines into tiny globules for easy digestion. The bile produced by the liver is stored in the gall bladder and released into the small intestine when fat needs to be digested.
2. Metabolizes or processes digested food, alcohol, drugs and other chemicals and toxins ingested along with the food that we eat.
a) Processes nutrients so that it can be used by the body:
- The liver converts excess glucose to glycogen that is stored in the liver. Whenever our body requires energy, the glycogen is converted back into glucose which breaks down to release energy where needed.
The liver converts excess amino acids from proteins into urea which can be excreted through the urine.
b) Converts the following liver toxins into less toxic substances:
- Toxins in the air we breathe and in the water we drink.
- Pesticides and herbicides from fruits and vegetables.
- Additives and preservatives in processed foods.
- Hormones and antibiotics from meat and poultry.
- Alcohol .
- Sweet drinks consumed.
- Prescription and other drugs consumed.
3. Produces cholesterol. Only 20 percent of cholesterol is taken in with food. The rest of the cholesterol is made in the liver. Cholesterol is important as it is used to make cell membranes, Vitamin D, hormones in the body and bile.
And the list goes on...
Mr Liver You Are Just Great!
Don't you agree with me? That Mr Liver is great.
The healthy liver filters the blood and purifies it. It has a natural cleanse mechanism in place to cleanse the body. It also metabolizes fat, and uses cholesterol to form bile. This means it excretes any excess cholesterol as bile into the gut, and maintains the cholesterol at a healthy level.
The liver is part of the hepatic biliary system. Hepatic means liver. Here is a diagram of the whole hepatic biliary system.
The liver is such an important organ, but we do not even think of it twice.
This amazing organ works so hard to keep us healthy. It becomes overworked because of all the junk food we eat.
Then we give it no choice but to store the extra liver toxins and liver stones, in places where it inevitably gives us problems.
I was also not aware of this remarkable and truly incredible organ until I started doing research for this website.
I now appreciate the processes the liver does daily. You can repay your liver by taking good care of it. In fact the benefits go to you to live a healthy life even as you get older.
As you all know a well-maintained car can stay on the road for years. The prove are the vintage cars. My own car is prove of it. Similarly a well-maintained liver can go on for a very long time.
An unique thing about the healthy liver is that it can regenerate. It can function even if 90 percent of it is surgically removed.
In our society now, we are exposed to many pollutants in the air, pesticides in the vegetables, hormones in meat and preservatives in processed food, that the liver is totally overworked. We need to help the liver carry out its functions more efficiently.
Do I sense that you ask, "How?"
Well...
How Can You Maintain a Healthy Liver?
You can maintain your liver health by carrying out a liver detoxification or liver gall bladder flush. Most liver flush procedures can be done at home. Do a liver flush once in a while, to enjoy the energy and vitality that a healthy liver can give.
Always start with a colon cleanse before you do a liver cleanse. Meanwhile to prepare for the cleanse, start changing your diet to a complete vegetarian diet, eat plenty of raw fruits and vegetables and drink a lot of citrus and apple juices. This will begin to cleanse your whole body, even before you start the liver detoxification, and it will help the process.
How Do You Know If Have a Toxic Liver and So Need a Liver Detox Cleanse?
Here is a short quiz for you to decide if you need to detox cleanse your liver.
1. Are you overweight and have fatty tissue around the abdomen?
2. Do you find it difficult to lose weight?
3. Do you have liver spots or pigmentation or melasma?
4. Do you feel fatigued most of the time?
5. Do you suffer from Type II diabetes?
6. Is your liver slightly enlarged?
Ask your doctor to check for any enlargement of the liver.
7. Do you have high cholesterol and triglycerides?
You can take a blood test to know.
8. Do you suffer from acne?
9. Do you have joint pains?
If you have answered an, "Yes" to any of the above questions, then yes, you need a liver detox cleanse via a liver flush.
It is better to cleanse the liver so that it can filter the blood off toxins. If these impurities are not detoxified they can flow back into the blood and cause disease.
What is a Fatty Liver?
A fatty liver is also called Non-Alcoholic-Fatty-Liver-Disease. Excess fat is stored in the spaces in the liver, because the fatty liver cannot process it.
In the US, nearly 20 percent of the general population have fatty liver. With the fat blocking the spaces in the liver, it is difficult for the liver to filter the blood.
Sometimes the liver may contain liver stones that are made up of bile and cholesterol, and so need to be detoxed and cleansed.
The Liver Has a Natural Cleanse Mechanism In Place
The liver is a very important organ of the body and it has a natural cleanse mechanism. This mechanism helps filter, detoxify, cleanse and purify the blood.
It carries out so many processes to keep us healthy. When we think of the 500 or more processes it undertakes, we begin to truly appreciate the liver, which we had taken for granted so far.
You now know if you need to cleanse and detox your liver. By doing a liver detox cleanse once in a while you can maintain liver health.
A healthy liver is not blocked by fat in the spaces between the liver cells, or liver stones or parasites in the numerous hepatic ducts traversing it.
A healthy liver neutralizes liver toxins in it, that has come from all over the body.
Do a liver and gall bladder cleanse, once in a way. This will help the liver's natural cleanse system to work more efficiently at purifying blood. And, in turn will keep your body healthy, pain-free, smooth-complexioned, youthful and more energetic.
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