The Consequences of Improper Liver Function
By Chris A. Austin - Naturopathic Author
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The liver is considered by most naturopathic doctors to be the definitive organ in the human body that, based on its health and overall functioning, determines how healthy a person FEELS. This connection between the health of the liver and a person's general feeling of well-being is why so many naturopathic doctors usually begin a diagnosis of a patient with liver testing. Located just under the ribcage on the right side of the abdomen, the liver is the largest and one of the most important organs in the human body. It performs hundreds of tasks in every minute of everyday, more than any other organ, including the brain! It is constantly filtering, detoxifying, synthesizing, and processing a wide variety of physiological substances. Without a healthy, well-functioning liver, it is easy to become overly-toxic, which can lead to chronic fatigue, a general feeling of sickness and often times depression. The liver is so vital of an organ that a human being cannot survive more than 24 hours without its proper functioning! The liver is involved in all of the most critical systems in the body, including the nervous, immune, endocrine, digestive and circulatory systems and any weakness or debility in the liver impacts every other organ system. In addition to its endless detoxification work, the liver is also the main organ that produces ENERGY to our bodies. It does so by regulating carbohydrate and protein metabolism, hormonal activity, fat burning, and blood sugar. Because of the liver's enormous role in your body, making the extra effort to help your liver's function through supplementation, liver cleansing, and seeking a liver healthy diet not only helps you FEEL much better but it also makes it easier for you to maintain an optimal weight.
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A Crucial Bodily Process: How Liver Detoxification Really Works...
The liver has the enormous duty and amazing capacity to monitor and determine the makeup of every biochemical in the body, such as hormones, enzymes and toxins, to assess what purpose, if any, they are serving. If it determines that the substance is a toxin, the liver has the power to break down that toxin and make it 'biodegradable' to be eliminated as waste through the usual tracts of the kidneys, which processes urine or the gallbladder, which feeds into the colon. Like an oil filter for your body, your liver filters over 50 gallons of blood every day which makes it easy to imagine how it can become clogged and overloaded. The unfortunate truth is that our livers' are totally overloaded due to the amount of toxins that we are exposed to everyday. The liver stores these toxins in its cells and the more it stores the more its function is compromised. The liver's workload can become more than it can handle creating a higher level of toxicity in the body, thus compromising the health and actual feeling of health. This is why naturopathic doctors urge liver screening for their patients to determine how well their liver is functioning and why periodic liver detoxifying can be so beneficial.
The Best Ways to Detoxify the Liver...
-Reduce the intake of all processed and preserved foods and eat more fresh and raw whole foods. Choices should be organic fruits and vegetables, free range meats and healthy grains such as brown rice and quinoa.
-Suspend, at least temporarily, the use of alcohol, tobacco, coffee, soft drinks and refined sugar of any kind. Medications should also be limited as much as possible.
-Get regular cardiovascular exercise of at least 20 minutes per day to induce detoxification through sweat.
-Drink approximately half your body weight in ounces per day of good, clean, filtered water.
Remember: The largest organ in your body is not only the hardest working, serving many functions at once, but is arguably the most important organ in determining that all important health trait of how you FEEL.
Getting enough liver detoxifying nutrients in your diet, and adopting a more detoxifying lifestyle are some very good places to begin detoxifying the liver, however, with the excessive amount of burden we typically put on our livers, this may not be enough. Through the use of an all-natural liver flushing cleanse, we can be better assured that we are taking the necessary action to more completely unclog our livers, so that it functions at a more optimal level.
The best liver detoxifying nutrients can be found in the best nutritional supplementation and are as follows:
--Bioflavanoids--Black Currant Seed Oil--Borage Oil--Carotenes--Copper--CoQ10--Evening Primrose Oil--Folic Acid--Iron--Lecithin Magnesium--Manganese--Niacin--Riboflavin--Selenium--Milk Thistle--Vitamin A--Vitamin B6--Vitamin B12--Vitamin C-Vitamin D--Vitamin E--Vitamin K--Zinc
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The liver detects and dissolves toxins from a wide variety of sources with the help of enzymes. These detoxification enzymes are the catalysts that serve to transform toxins into recyclable substances that are eliminated in a process known as Phase I and Phase II detoxification. The toxins that the liver breaks down with the use of enzymes consist of anything from heavy metals, pollution, pesticides, chemicals in the home, pharmaceuticals, contaminated food sources, bacterial overgrowth, stress hormones, alcohol, tobacco, and countless other carcinogens. These processes also require specific nutrients to perform the endless work of properly breaking down all of our ingested toxins(see below). These nutrients, especially the antioxidants, enable the liver to perform these phases much more efficiently. Without them, the detoxification process can stall, causing free radicals to be formed and possible cell damage to occur. In Phase I the liver distributes enzymes that break down toxins into intermediate forms to be eliminated. Phase II deals with the more dangerous toxins that were too stubborn to be eliminated in Phase I. These toxins must be attached to protein molecules that serve to 'usher' them out of the body. CLICK BELOW FOR MORE INFO>>>>>>
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Liver model with vascular structure and small intestines
