Your health is directly connected to your liver, so if you see visible signs of liver damage, you have already created significant issues and need to take immediate action to start healing this highly important organ.
The liver is your largest interior organ and is primarily responsible for keeping our bloodstream free of toxic poisons. Not only is it a large filter, but it also plays a key role in digestion, the formation of blood, and defending our bodies against infection.
In fact, during digestion your liver secretes bile into the gallbladder for storage to be used when necessary to lubricate our intestinal walls. This bile regulates our amount of friendly bacteria, destroys unwanted organisms, helps break down fats, and stimulates peristaltic activity to help move fecal matter through and out of our body.
When the liver is weak or congested, it’s ability to neutralize toxic substances becomes hampered, and toxic bile becomes secreted which can move through your small intestine creating inflammation, and a number of digestive disease conditions.
For these reasons, and several others, your liver health is paramount in achieving true health due to it’s connection to all these factors. It must be healed in order for your digestion, immune system, and over all well being to be at ideal levels. Healing the body is impossible without taking care of this vital organ.
The difficulty with the liver is that it doesn’t ‘cry out in pain’. You can do serious damage to it and never experience symptoms you would connect or directly relate to a congested liver. However, there are many signs such as several deep lines or puffiness between the eyebrows, and being unable to tolerate the cold in winter. On the flip side, if your liver is overactive, you may also feel feverish and find summer months very uncomfortable.
Other not so obvious symptoms and signs of liver damage include:
– Anemia
– Hemorrhoids
– Small red ‘spots’ the size of a pinhead that come and go in various parts on the body
– Skin problems such as eczema, acne, hives, itching, rashes. Skin may have dark pigmentation or spots on face, back of hands, forehead, or around the nose.
– Jaundice (yellowing of skin)
– Eye problems (sensitivity to light, moving spots, double vision, yellowing)
– Hormonal imbalances in women creating malfunctions in conception and loss of sex drive
– Hormonal imbalances in men which may produce feminine qualities
– Obesity
– Alternating constipation and diarrhea
– Headaches, dizziness, and shivering
– Sensitivity to chemicals and smells
– Diabetes
Since an impaired liver can not process toxins, even the brain and central nervous system are affected. This can cause depression, daydreaming, an inability to concentrate and remember things, and more severe things like mental outbursts.
So how does liver damage occur?
Since our liver is a large filter, everything we take must pass through it. It can store all the remains of drugs, vaccines, birth control, and prescriptions we have taken throughout our entire lifetime. It also can be compromised through:
– Excessive alcohol consumption.
– Chronic and/or acute exposure to synthetic materials and chemicals.
– Fats from dairy and fried foods, as well as flour products.
– Improper food combining.
Lack of sleep and fatigue will also weaken the liver. This is a vicious cycle because as the liver weakens it becomes more difficult to sleep. If you find you are sleepy after eating, and/or feel wide awake at 1 or 2 am, you may have sustained liver damage. You may also tend to worry at that time or have negative thoughts.
So how do you heal the liver from all this damage?
Simply stated, we need to stop overworking it by stopping the chemical insults and changing the way we eat. In addition to that, we must work on cleaning up the colon and encouraging the liver to detox through herbs like milk thistle, artichoke leaf, dandelion leaf and high quality LIVE probiotics. Your liver loves hydration and bitter foods, so keep those in your regular meal rotation.
You will also need to rest your digestive tract by eating lighter, highly hydrating, and easy to digest foods so there is very little energy required for the act of digestion. You can also consider coffee enemas, which can quickly initiate a “toxic dump” and take some burden off this vital organ right away. Be careful though as it can create strong detox symptoms, and over time they can create more risks than rewards.
These are just a few of the things that can be done as there is along list of things to consider and will depend on your specific situation as to what is appropriate and necessary. If you’d like to discuss a specific plan for your situation, you’re welcome to book a free program consultation where I can learn more and discuss viable solutions with you.