Hello, its Tarryn Thompson here. Hands down the hardest working organ in your body is your liver.
What does your liver do and why should I care?
Your liver has a lot of functions but its main function is for detoxing as well as a digestive organ.
These days we are exposed to high levels of toxins through our food, water, air, body and home products.
These toxins lodge in the bowel, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system and fat tissue.
This toxic build up prevents the uptake of nutrients, reduces the body’s oxygen uptake creating a low-energy state, prone to disease. And many find more and more difficult to lose weight.
Here are 15 signs that it’s time to give your liver some love.
The last 5 signs are pretty serious symptoms and liver health is rarely considered in their treatment.
Remember the liver functions to remove toxins from your blood and return it to the body. If your blood is not properly cleaned you end up with recycled toxins entering your major organs. This can cause damage especially to your immune system and lead to rapid aging.
The first step to detoxing the body is to reduce the introduction of new toxins.
Reduce your exposure to airborne toxins such as smoke, paint, glue, house cleaners and nail polish.
Reduce your exposure to alcohol, preservatives, dyes, pesticides, fertilizers, heavy metal in large fish, unfiltered water, and chlorinated and brominated products such as commercially produced breads and bread products.
Completely eliminate processed foods, simple carbohydrates and sugar. Focus on eating more organic produce and don’t over cook your food.
Eliminate toxic, poor quality fats like canola oil, soybean oil, corn oil. And don’t eat animal products from animals fed genetically modified feed such as soy, corn, and wheat.
Limit or eliminate alcohol immediately if you have been experiencing more than 3 of the symptoms listed above.
Toxins can also be introduced through the skin so switch to non-toxic and plant-based, cleaning and personal care products and eliminate petroleum-based preservatives in skin and hair care products.
The next step is to add into your diet, more foods to help repair the damage to your liver.
Eat lot’s of raw vegetables, especially dark green leafy vegetables and brightly colored ones. These vegetables really help your digestion because they contain living enzymes, vitamin C, natural antibiotic substances and anti-cancer phytonutrients.
Eat naturally fermented foods (sauerkraut, cultured vegetables, and natural un-preserved, apple cider vinegar and foods rich in probiotics.
Add in foods high in arginine, such as beans, peas, lentils, carob, walnuts and seeds. Arginine helps the liver to detoxify ammonia, which is a toxic waste product of protein metabolism.
Foods high in antioxidants, like carrot, celery, beetroot, dandelion, apple, pear and green drinks from chlorella and spirulina. Also fresh berries, citrus and kiwifruit
Foods high in selenium, like brazil nuts, kelp, molasses, seafood, wheat germ, garlic and onions.
Foods that contain methionine which is essential for detoxification. This is found in legumes, eggs, fish, garlic, onions, seeds and meat.
Lots of essential fatty acids found in seafood and fish oil. Fresh avocado, fresh raw nuts and seeds, legumes (beans, peas, lentils), green vegetables such as spinach, green peas and green beans, eggplant, cold pressed fresh vegetable and seed oils, freshly ground seeds, especially flax and chia seeds.
And foods high in natural sulphur compounds found in eggs (preferably free range), garlic, onions, leeks, shallots and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts.
The last step is to rebuild your liver’s health by using supportive herbs and supplements.
A few that help support the liver are B-complex vitamins, choline, alpha lipoic acid, vitamins C, E and natural beta carotene. Herbs like milk thistle, turmeric, dandelion also help. And some amino acids like N-Acetyl L-cysteine.
Remember if your liver is loaded you’re not able to properly absorb nutrients, digest foods and eliminate waste which increases your need to detoxify your system and clean up your liver.
Doing so will not only help you improve digestion but will allow your body to let go of excess weight and proactively prevent future chronic illness and serious life threatening disease.
If you’re concerned about the health of your liver after reading this you should consider taking steps to restore your liver and improve your digestion.
I’m running a 28-Day Be Healthy detox program and I invite you to participate. The program is free to join. Your only investment is in the products I highly recommend.
The 28-Day Detox Program is just what you need to begin making the first steps to remove unwanted toxins and reduce the burden on your liver.
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