5 Ways to be Kind to your Liver
Maybe you don't know, but your liver is your bussiest Vital Organ and the filter of your body, cleaning your blood and recycling blood cells.
Your liver has some 500 critical jobs. This one, removes all toxins, clears medication from your body and metabolizes [breaks down] all your food. In fact — you can’t live a week without your liver.
Unfortunately, the standard American diet, which often includes fried foods, sugars, and alcohol, isn't ideal for supporting liver health. The liver, also adjust cholesterol levels, builds proteins, and produces bile, which helps you absorb fats, stores sugar for when you really need it, and regulates hormone levels. For your liver, that’s all in a day’s work.
What could possibly go wrong?
Your liver rarely complains. What it does have is a daily workload, and that workload depends almost entirely on your habits.
Alcohol: when there is alcohol in the system, your liver drops everything else to deal with it first.
Sugar and ultra-processed food: This is the quiet one. It does not hurt and it does not announce itself: it is simply extra work, every single day, adding up. Your liver takes part in digestion, in your energy and in how your body handles what you eat.”
So here’s a list of 4 ways to be kind to your liver:
1. Be careful about alcohol consumption:
Do not think this only applies to lifelong heavy drinkers — it does not. Just four ounces a day of hard liquor for men or 2 for women can begin to scar your liver
2. Eat Right:
Eating "clean" is the best way to support your body's natural detoxification efforts. Include in your diet grains, fruit, veggies, whole-grain bread, rice and cereals.
3. Skip foods that burden your liver:
Reduce sugar, salt and foods that are high in fat—moderation is key.
4. Watch out for medications:
The number one reason clinical [medicine] trials are stopped or drugs removed from the market is the liver.
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