10 Reasons to Protect Your Liver
Blogs By Heidi
- February 8, 2023
Your liver is an incredibly important organ, and most (if not all) health conditions can be traced back to a sick, stagnant or sluggish liver.
Below are 10 reasons why you must look after your precious liver.
1. It Has Over 2000 Functions
Your liver has over 2000 functions in the body, including screening and filtering blood, disarming harmful materials, storing glycogen, vitamins and minerals, processing fat and protecting the pancreas. Primarily, your liver’s job is to keep you balanced and works constantly to keep you safe.
2. It Protects Your Organs
Your liver shields your other organs from harmful substances such as bacteria and pathogens, radiation, toxic heavy metals, noxious chemicals and unproductive foods and ingredients.
3. It Protects You From Illness
Your liver fights every day to keep you healthy. If you suffer from any health issue or symptom, a sick liver is the underlying cause. For example, unexplained weight gain, high blood sugars, high cholesterol and blood pressure, brain fog and migraines are all the result of a stagnant and sluggish liver.
4. It Cleans Your Blood
Without a healthy liver, you are likely to have dirty blood syndrome. Symptoms of this include dark under-eye circles, varicose veins, gout, lethargy, inflammation and insomnia. You must look after your liver to keep your blood clean.
5. It Keeps Your Weight Stable
When you follow a healthy diet, your liver is able to function correctly and helps to regulate your body weight. When you have a diet high in fat and processed junk foods, your liver becomes sluggish and stagnant, leading to weight gain.
6. It Prevents Excess Hunger
As long as the body is receiving complex, heathy carbohydrates and therefore essential reserves of glucose, your will not feel excessively hungry. Excess hunger, when combined with being overweight, is a sign of pre-fatty or fatty liver disease.
7. It Prevents Premature Ageing
Forget all the creams and potions promising to wind back the clock. Your liver is your most powerful anti-ageing tool. Premature saggy and weathered looking skin is a sign that the liver is being deprived of its various chemical functions that keep us looking youthful. Fruit is your most powerful anti-ageing ally.
8. It Protects Your Emotional Health
Issues such as mood imbalances, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), grumpiness, frustration and anger can be the result of a sick liver that is over-saturated with pathogens, neurotoxins and toxic heavy metals. Many of these poisons can travel via the bloodstream to the brain, causing these emotional problems.
9. It is Crucial for Gut Health
Good gut health starts with the liver producing bile. Bile, along with hydrochloric acid, helps to break down, digest and absorb food correctly. A sluggish liver produces low-quality bile which can cause multiple issues in the gut, including bloating, constipation and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
10. A Healthy Liver Creates Great Health
If you want to experience glorious health and vitality, you must look after your liver. This means following a low-fat diet, staying well hydrated, making sure you get plenty of sleep, and keeping stress hormones low in the body. Whether you are sick or thriving all depends on the state of your liver.
So there you have it! Is your liver in need of some TLC? Make sure you keep an eye out for our regular 11-Day Super Cleanse Challenges which are designed to give your liver a deep-clean and initiate the healing process in the body.