I'm going to read some information to you from a book that I've written, and it's called
"Five Reasons Why You Need a Liver Cleanse."
The first reason why you need to get your liver cleaned up is to improve your mental
focus, clarity, and moods.
You only have to ask someone who drinks alcohol regularly what their level of mental clarity
and focus is, and you'll soon work out that alcohol, a potent liver toxin, and healthy
cognition do not mix.
A healthy liver gives a person a powerful ability to think with clarity and concentrate.
The liver converts ammonia, a by-product from protein digestion, into a less harmful substance
known as urea.
An impaired or sluggish liver will not convert ammonia sufficiently into urea.
And when the ammonia reaches the brain, it affects the brain's ability to function optimally.
This is one good reason why you'll benefit from optimizing your liver's function to allow
it to metabolize chemicals like ammonia and other by-products from your digestion.
Not even taking into account the self-ingested toxins like pharmaceutical drugs, environmental
poisons, and other chemicals that could impair your liver.
Those who've got a great liver function are more inclined to be in a positive and upbeat
mood.
People with sad livers are more prone to anger, tension, and anxiety.
Just go to your local bar or fry house on a Saturday night and watch those who drink
to excess.
They invariably are more prone to irritability, bad moods, and anger management problems.
In Chinese medicine, the liver is an organ that is connected with the emotion called
anger.
Anything that produces a toxic liver according to Chinese medicine, leads to anger management
problems and to people who have problems controlling or letting go of their anger.
Obviously, the more toxic and destructive the habits like alcohol and drugs, and the
longer these habits are done, the worse this anger situation, of course, will be and the
flow on effects.
A clean, healthy liver will make the owner feel more relaxed and at ease and calm in
their life.
The other interesting thing with alcohol, I find, is that as you get older, your body
produces less of the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, and then it can't break down acetaldehyde
properly, a by-product from alcohol.
And when this builds up in the body, it can make you feel quite sick.
Many people I speak to my age and over 50, say, "I can't drink as much as I used to drink.
When I was 20, I could drink a whole bottle of whatever it was, wake up in the morning,
and feel great.
Now, I have one glass and I feel like crap for two days."
And that's because they're getting older.
Their liver ages.
It produces less enzymes to break down toxins.
If you feel that this is occurring with you, I want you to really pay attention and to
cut your drinking back.
You're going to feel a lot better for it.
And if you cut it out completely, you're going to feel really good.
The second reason why you need a liver cleanse, improved digestion and fat burning.
Now you're going to sit back and listen because we're going to talk about how you can lose
weight more easily and maintain weight loss.
I can remember having a conversation a few years ago with Dr. Sandra Cabot, the Australian
liver doctor, who wrote a liver cleansing diet book.
You may have that one on your shelf.
And Sandra mentioned that if people only knew what role the liver played in weight loss,
they would certainly pay much more attention to regular liver cleansing.
Did you know that your liver is your body's main fat burning mechanism?
Your liver's role in metabolizing fats makes it one of the most important of all digestive
organs.
Your liver produces about a pint, or 600 mils, of bile per day that is stored in the gall
bladder.
Bile is one way for your body to get rid of worn out blood cells and other unwanted chemicals
like redundant hormone residues.
Bile helps to break down dietary fats, and it's important to correct and complete the
metabolism of the fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E and K. Correct and continuous bile flow
is a critical aspect of excellent digestion, and it's one of my major goals in liver cleansing.
That's why many herbs and nutrients we recommend for liver cleansing are called "Cholagogue"
herbs.
Cholagogue means that they allow the stimulation and the production of bile.
Gall stones, bloating, gas, and attacks of pain after eating fats are signs of a sluggish
gall bladder, so this is one of the main reasons why I like people to complete the liver and
gall bladder cleansing program on a regular basis.
The third reason why you need to give your liver a clean.
To improve blood sugar control.
Your liver will control your blood sugar in multiple ways.
Did you know that your liver has a large storage capacity for a sugar called glycogen?
Glycogen is your stored blood sugar.
And when your body needs a burst of energy, the adrenal gland releases a hormone called
cortisol that liberates glycogen.
Which then becomes converted to blood sugar that is then utilized as an energy source
by the millions of cells in your body.
Your liver is very clever because it can also convert other forms of sugar into glucose.
The preferred fuel for your body cells.
Such as conversion of fructose from fruit and lactose from dairy into glucose.
The clever thing about an effective liver cleanse is that it improves your body's ability
to metabolize blood sugars, making this process much more efficient.
This more effective balancing of blood sugars will then prevent those episodes of low blood
sugar that commonly occur with people with congestive livers.
It's important for you not to get low blood sugar because that can make you want to go
to the kitchen and grab a sandwich with peanut butter and jelly on it or to go to the fridge
and get a scoop of ice cream.
When your blood sugar drops, you get a craving.
A clean liver is going to help regulate and release enough stored energy to keep you from
not wanting to go to the fridge or the pantry all the time.
The fatter you get, the sicker the liver, the fatter you will become because the sicker
the liver will get, if that makes any sense.
The other important point worth mentioning here is that sugar cravings are easily controlled.
Reducing the likelihood of sweet cravings and weight gain that many women experience.
I've noticed that when people get over 200 pounds, they gain weight real fast.
Have you noticed?
And that's because their liver becomes very fatty.
Number four, the fourth reason why you need a liver cleanse.
Improved immune function.
Did you know that the liver has a very high concentration of white blood cells, and it's
the primary immune organ in its own right?
Your liver possesses a very high concentration of natural killer cells and macrophages that
play an important role in preventing any infection or illness due to toxins or xenobiotic chemicals
from spreading to the rest of the body.
Xenobiotic chemicals are basically chemicals of foreign origin.
We don't know where they come from.
Some experts state that as much as a quarter of all liver cells are white blood cells designed
to allow the liver to work very effectively as an immune filter.
By regularly completing a deep cleanse, you're ensuring that your liver remains vigilant
and highly efficient at performing its task optimally.
By reducing your total toxic load and completing a detox annually, you're well on your way
to preventing the many chronic, recurring degenerative diseases that people get, which
affect people quite often prematurely.
The fifth one, the reason why you want to keep your liver clean, is to have a beautiful
skin tone.
Your skin is your body's largest organ and is affected very much by underlying toxins
in the body that have been overloaded by toxins for years.
Perspiration is one of your body's ways of effectively dealing with poisons.
This is why sauna therapy is important and it plays an important role, in my opinion,
in internal cleansing.
Many patients I see in their 40s and 50s complain of accelerated aging.
And I explain to them the accumulation of free radical damage over the past 20 to 30
years from things like chemicals, alcohol, drugs, nutritional deficiencies, toxins, too
much sunshine, too much stress, all these things take a toll on the skin, resulting
in wrinkles and loss of elasticity and collagen.
A healthy and vibrant liver can help the body deal with free radicals much more efficiently.
And you'll notice that those who don't smoke, drink or take drugs and who lead stress free
lives look many years younger than their biological age.
Compared to their real age, their chronological age.
Did they have Botox or a facelift?
No.
Their aging was reduced because their liver was more able to clear up the damage before
it was inflicted on their skin.
Just take a look at a woman who worships the sun and who smokes.
By the time she's 50, her skin can look old and wrinkly.
Now, look at the peaches and cream complexion of a lady who avoids the sun and who's never
smoked in her life and pay her a visit on her 50th birthday.
Place her next to the sun goddess.
You'll be quite shocked to see the difference, incredible difference, in fact, in skin tone.
To prevent accelerated aging, it is important to take antioxidants like vitamins A, C, E,
zinc, and selenium.
I also recommend alpha lipoic acid.
You can take pine bark extract and there are other ones you can take.
Regular liver cleansing will improve your body's ability to move out those free radicals.
And your body can also produce collagen more efficiently, which is the main substrate for
making skin.
That way, your skin will look healthy for a long, long time.
And all this can be accomplished without Botox or any plastic surgery at all.
Clean living, healthy living, and stress free living is a fantastic way for you to keep
looking young, as you get older.
And look at a lot of people who do look like that who don't take Botox, particularly, if
they're people in the spotlight, popular people, very famous people.
These people, in fact, are not in the spotlight.
They hold back.
You don't hear a lot about them in public.
But when you do see pictures of them, you'll see how fabulous they can look.
There are a few movie stars that come to mind that I won't mention, but there are a few
ladies I know that look absolutely phenomenal for their age.
And they're not really likely to be the kind of people to be involved in the Hollywood
scene.
They're not likely to be the kind of people that go for Botox or breast enhancements or
things like that.
And they often are very involved in meditation, relaxation, and eating clean foods.
Even rich and famous people can be like that.
Have a think on some of those ideas on liver cleansing.
I just hope it inspires you to keep your liver nice and clean.
Because a clean liver can mean an amazing life.
Thanks for tuning in.