Learn to Love Your Liver
We’re not talking about eating liver; we’re talking about taking care of the internal organ that performs over 500 vital functions to keep you healthy. If you just don’t feel well, experiencing fatigue, grogginess, headaches, irritability or lethargy, the problem could be a congested, overburdened liver. Unfortunately, moderate liver dysfunction won’t show up on your doctor’s lab tests and many people who “don’t have anything wrong with them” medically, but just don’t feel good, need to support the health of this vital organ of life. You can read more about it in this issue of Sunshine Sharing.
The liver isn’t a very glamorous body part, but this brown, three-pound organ is one of the most overlooked body systems when it comes to overcoming chronic and degenerative diseases. With over 500 functions to perform, an overworked and under-nourished liver can become congested and sluggish, contributing to numerous common health problems.
Some of the more common liver-related symptoms include difficulty relaxing and getting to sleep at night, feeling groggy in the morning, brain fog, headaches…
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TCM teaches that the liver harmonizes the function of all other organs and systems and builds the blood. When a person has many vague health problems that make diagnosis difficult, TCM suggests working on the liver. The liver is also a major focus of therapy when a person has blood deficiency, which is characterized by fatigue, paleness and lethargy.
The Western medical doctor, Rudolph Ballentine wrote something similar in his book, Diet and Nutrition. He said that it is the liver patient, whom…
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With so many tasks to perform, the liver needs a good supply of nutrients in order to function properly. Yet, in today’s society most people consume diets loaded with refined and processed foods that lack the nutrients the liver needs to do its many jobs. This is made worse by the extra burden placed on the liver in having to detoxify food additives, pesticide and herbicide residues and other chemicals to which people are regularly exposed. Add alcohol and drugs (prescription or recreational) into…
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In addition to reducing exposure to toxins and eating more nutritionally dense foods, there are a variety of supplements that can aid liver health. Here are a few options to consider.
Liver Protecting Nutrients with Milk Thistle Formula
Milk thistle is the most well known hepatoprotective herb. Others include schizandra and blessed thistle. These herbs protect the liver from being damaged by the harmful chemicals it is trying to eliminate. A Liver Protecting Nutrients with Milk Thistle combines…
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