Your liver has lots of jobs, such as helping you metabolize fats, carbohydrates and proteins; storing extra blood and key nutrients for use when they're needed; helping manufacture and balance your hormones; and detoxifying and eliminating poisonous wastes and by-products.
Unfortunately, in this modern life, which is supposed to have made life easier for all of us, makes things significantly harder for our livers. That's because we're practically marinating in toxins our livers were never designed to handle such as toxic fumes leaking from carpets, upholstery, insulation, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc., as well as medications, drugs, cosmetics, relentlessly-elevated cortisol levers from our own adrenals (thanks to chronic stress), and poor food choices that are tough for your liver to metabolize, provide no real nurtition to fuel needed repairs and burden it with toxic by-products.
Your overworked liver gradulally loses its ability to break down and eliminate the toxins your bloodstream delivers to it. Over time, toxins that are only partially broken down (and still somewhat poisonous) begin accumulating in your liver's cells and ductwork, sickening the organ, and setting it up for inflammatory disease, such as hepatitis. Stockpiled toxic waste begins spilling out of the liver, and your whole body becomes increasingly toxic, scrambling to eliminate toxins through less efficient, less reliable, secondary routes - for example, excreting still-toxic wastes through the pores of your skin, into your urine, and into your stool. As a result your skin becomes more sensitive, more easily inflamed, and increasingly prone to severe sunburn. You may experience increased clogged pores, dryness, flakiness, a blotchy, blemished, "ruddy" complexion on your face and other exposed areas, thinned "older looking" skin, or a tired, sallow appearance.
Your digestive tract may also begin to lose some of its ability to handle food efficiently, leading to indigestion, gas, unexplained weight gain, and a sensitive, over reactive gut that leaves you reluctant to eat without easy access to a private bathroom. Plus your kidneys can become stressed, leading to retained water and bloating, rising blood pressure, and increased vulnerability to vaginal, urinary tract, and kidney infections. As a result of all this toxic backwash, you may begin to feel chronically fatiqued, prone to headaches, bloated, irritable, emotionally reactive, and mental fogginess - eventually feeling as though you can no longer rely on your body or your mind.
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Now that you understand how important your liver is, you can start taking steps to clear out the toxins it has accumulated, as well as those that may have been diverted to your secondary organs of detoxification, including your skin, lungs, intestinal tract, and kidneys.
Detoxifying your body pulls stashed toxins out of hiding in your liver and elsewhere, bringing them into the blood and lymph circulation where they can be properly eliminated.
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In the process, their brief presence in your circulation can make you temporarily more toxic - until your detox program sucessfully eliminates them. This is immediately accompanied by significant improvement in the way you look and feel, and this improvement escalates as your liver repairs and regenerates.
There is a much healthier and more effective approach than living a liver-abusive lifestyle. Check back with me the next couple of months while we continue to go over the detoxing way of living.
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