The Liver is One of the Most Complex and Important Organs in the Body
The liver is responsible for:
- filtering toxins from your blood
- storing reserve energy in the form of glycogen
- conjugating and eliminating excess hormones
- producing bile to help the body digest fats
It is Essential to Keep the Liver Clean and Healthy
One of the top jobs of the liver is to make bile, roughly 1 to 1 1/2 quarts in a day! The liver is full of tubes (biliary tubules) that deliver the bile to one large tube, the common bile duct. The gall bladder is attached to the common bile duct and acts as a storage reservoir. Eating fat or protein triggers the gall bladder to squeeze itself empty after about twenty minutes (or after ingesting the liver cleanse solution) and the stored bile finishes its trip down the common bile duct to the small intestine and eventually to the colon (large intestine).
It is essential to keep this Detoxification pathway clean so that the body can both eliminate toxins and excrete sufficient bile for digestion. Detoxification is the process of removing the “bad stuff,” or toxins, from the body. In order to treat disease and maintain optimum health it is imperative to decrease one’s toxic load through a process of natural detoxification which will cleanse the systems of the body, allowing the body to more easily release toxins. That is why it is so important to support the liver’s essential work for detoxification.
Common herbs such as milk thistle can help as well as liver cleanses. Avoiding stressors on the liver such as alcohol, excess fats and exogenous hormones also helps to keep the liver clean. Physician directed liver flushes are also a great asset when looking to improve liver health.
Love your liver and live a healthier life.
