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Your liver is the primary filter of your body, cleaning toxins you put into it, whether from alcohol, drugs, foods, the air you breath and body products, among other pollutants. It’s essential in keeping all internal systems running smoothly, especially your liver. It’s important to know how to clean your liver thoroughly and effectively, and most importantly, naturally.
The liver performs over 500 different jobs in the body, from filtering blood to producing bile, which is needed to complete digestion of foods. The liver can work hard, but it can also be damaged easily by toxin factors such as alcohol and smoking, as well as lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise. Often the liver does not show any symptoms of a problem for many years, and sometimes until it is too late.
How to Clean Your Liver Naturally
So, what can you do about it? Well, you could try a quality liver detox supplement, but many times the solutions for a liver cleanse may be a bit much on your liver, pushing it into “over-cleansing” of your liver. This would bring about flushing toxins out of your body faster than a normal process, which could bring about pimples, bloating, gas and other symptoms of purging toxins out of your body too fast. But if you were doing it naturally with common food items as listed below, you won’t experience the over-cleansing effect. Let’s get to it.
- 1. Warm Lemon Water – Warm lemon water is a great way to detox your liver every single morning. This isn’t lemonade, so don’t add sugar or anything else. Just purified water and a healthy dose of fresh lemon juice. Some experts, like author A.F. Beddoe who wrote the book Biological Ionization as Applied to Human Nutrition, also believe that the liver produces more enzymes in response to water with lemon than to any other food.
- 2. Dandelion – Yes, the edible pesky weed. Dandelion is one of the bitter herbs whose healing properties cover a variety of health issues. They are rich in vitamins and minerals. All parts of the plant are used medically by herbalists around the world. The leaves are edible and can be added to salads, cooked as any other leafy-green vegetable and are used in some coffee substitutes. The flowers are used to add a special flavor to some wines. Both Native Americans and the Chinese have used dandelion for centuries for culinary and medicinal treatments including cleansing the liver.
- 3. Avocados – A Japanese study found that avocados contain compounds that can protect the liver from damage. When compared with 21 other fruits, avocados had the most promise in protecting the liver from galactosamine, a powerful toxin that has been shown to produce a liver damage much like human viral hepatitis. While avocados are high in fat, much of the fat is of the monounsaturated variety, which has been shown to reduce cholesterol levels.
- 4. Artichokes – This delicious vegetable is a powerful liver protector because it contains a flavonoid called silymarin, a strong antioxidant. Studies on animals have shown that silymarin may be helpful against liver toxicity and cancer. When it’s in season, steam and eat a couple of artichoke flowers to keep your liver performing at its optimum.
- 5. Turmeric – A powerful spice with a long list of benefits, turmeric is said to not only protect the liver from damage, but also encourage regeneration of liver cells. In addition, it increases natural bile production and aids in keeping the body toxin-free. It’s also a very potent anti-inflammatory which helps relieve pain.
- 6. Milk Thistle — Some early research has shown that milk thistle aids people with alcohol-related liver disease. Some studies also show milk thistle may offer a possible benefit for people whose liver is damaged by industrial toxins, such as toluene and xylene. Like artichokes, Milk Thistle contains Silymarin, which is the main active ingredient. Silymarin is both an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. Milk thistle is sometimes used as a natural treatment for liver problems. These liver problems include cirrhosis, jaundice, hepatitis, and gallbladder disorders. Like any herb, if mixed with drugs, can sometime have an interaction. If you decide to use Milk Thistle and are taking medication, check with your doctor or pharmacist first for any interactions that may occur.
For a healthy liver, include more organic foods in your diet. Foods that are not grown organically contain substances that are toxic in the body, such as chemicals sprayed on the produce while growing, or genetically modified organisms and unnatural food particles. These toxic herbicides and pesticides can’t be washed off, so it’s extremely important you’re not eating foods, which by the way, the USDA has just allowed an increase of these toxic chemicals such as Roundup, which is found on and in your food if not organic.
Eating organic food does in fact lessen the load on the liver, allowing it time to focus upon internal cleanup within the organ itself.
Cleansing your liver is crucial, so don’t hesitate to incorporate these liver-cleansing solutions into your life for a healthy liver, which equates to a healthy life.
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