A useful tool from NaturalHerbsGuide.

Back to Disorder Library

• 1) Cumulative poisons may be present. Insecticides, preservatives, and other toxins can be stored in the body and can harm the liver. Even if the toxin may not be stored, however, it could still damage the liver, especially if the support systems of the pancreas and/or the kidneys are harmed.
• 2) An improper diet. Too little protein and too much carbohydrates and fats (with the majority being saturated fats) fried foods, and hydrogenated fats can be stressful to the liver and may limit the amount of protein building blocks that are required for the liver to repair itself. Poor food choices are thought to be processed foods, junk foods, refined white flour products, white sugar products, and imitation food that are manufactured to appear and taste like an original product yet lack the natural vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.
• 3) Overeating. Overeating can be the primary cause of liver damage. The reason for this is the liver cannot handle the burden that the excess places on the liver which can cause liver fatigue. Not only that, the liver needs to work overtime to remove the toxins from multiple chemicals that we have in our food.
• 4) Drugs. Drugs can be very damaging to the liver. The liver does not recognize the drugs as being beneficial, so the liver will work harder to rid the body of the agents that the liver consider to be foreign. The liver will tend to neutralize the effects that the drugs have. Alcohol is especially damaging to the liver. When large amounts of alcohol are converged onto the liver, the liver can't function effectively. Caffeine and oral contraceptives may be recognized by the liver similarly to alcohol.
• It may be possible to deter the effects of alcoholic cirrhosis if it is uncovered early enough.
• Listed below are four reasons for a liver not functioning properly:
• Studies in animals have shown that the average American's diet is insufficient to support the liver. It is possible to see allergies, digestive disorders, a low energy level, and an incapability to flush toxins from the body.
• There have been studies that indicate that individuals with cirrhosis may not have the minimum daily requirements of essential fatty acids in their diet that are needed to protect their cells. When these individuals were given ten capsules of primrose oil on a daily basis for at least three weeks, these individuals were said to exhibit quite an improvement in the levels of essential fatty acids in their systems.

• Be sure to have goat's milk, grains, almonds, seeds, and other products made from goat's milk in your diet.
• Diet needs to have choline, inositol, lecithin, and bulk and fiber to keep from constipation.
• Diet should have 75% of raw foods. Only severe conditions should you have only fruit and vegetable juices for 2 weeks.
• Do not use Cod Liver Oil. Important to eat fish no more than 2 times per week. Never eat uncooked or raw seafood.
• Essential to have vegetable juices.
• For dietary fats only use cold pressed vegetable oils. Only intake oils in an uncooked form.
• Important to cut out fats including shortening, butter, and margarine.
• Important to detoxify ammonia by eating kidney beans, peas, and soybeans (legumes) in your diet.
• Include green leafy vegetables and alfalfa sprout in our diet for the vitamin K.
• Never take over the counter drugs use only drugs prescribed by a health care provider.
• Never use laxatives to clean your system. You should use enemas that are natural 2 times per week.
• Omit smoking.
• Omit the following from your diet: alcohol, salt, pepper, candies, animal products, pastries, spices, caffeine, sugars, white rice, and white flour products.
• Raise the amount of potassium in your diet by eating more dulse, kelp, rice, prunes, raisins, wheat barn and bananas.
• Stay away from animal protein. Only consume vegetable proteins.