The Liver - The body's purification system

The liver has many tasks in the body, such as breaking down fat, protecting the pancreas, storing glucose and glycogen, store vitamins and minerals, destroy and capture harmful substances, analysing and filtering blood, making white blood cells, protect you eith it's own specialised immundefence and many other things.

When you take care of your liver properly, it can adapt to whatever you put it through.

It switches between different functions at lightning speed, constantly carrying out different chemical processes in the body without rest.

When the liver is well, it is able to help you in all situations according to your needs - if you are cold, it generates heat, if you are overheated, it draws heat from you. If you run a marathon, your liver releases all the stored glucose it has to help you cross the finish line. If you drink too much water, the liver soaks up the water so that the blood composition is good. If you breathe in cigarette smoke or toxic substances, the liver sucks up the chemicals from these that are in your blood.

If you eat a burger, chips and chocolate cake, your liver will break down fats and trans fats to protect you.

If you're out swimming and underwater currents start to pull you under the surface, your liver will secrete its stored adrenaline to give you more energy and power to cope with life's challenges.

Besides this, the liver is like a memory bank. It remembers, just like the brain. For example, if on the first Friday of every month you drink alcohol, eat pizza or chicken wings, the liver remembers and prepares for it by producing more bile to break down the fat.

Breaking down fat is one of the liver's main tasks.

The liver has a better memory than you do and can remember certain routines, e.g. 1 year ago you ate a certain type of food with a lot of fat at one time. Then it prepares to produce more bile when that day comes in case that food comes again.

Although bile helps break down high fat foods for the time being, you don't want to make it a habit to eat a high fat diet. You then weaken the liver, which is busy dealing with fat instead of allowing it to deal with other important problems such as clearing out toxins and viruses and other pathogens.

Below is a stoplight that tells you roughly how hard the liver has to work. In the Medical Medium book "Liver rescue" there is more information to be had.

Green light: 15% of fat intake comes from healthy sources such as avocados, nuts, seeds, olives, some oils (e.g. olive and coconut oil), certain types of fish, meat from wildcaught animals, etc.

The diet also needs to contain large quantities of fruit, leafy vegetables, vegetables, potatoes, pumpkin plants, etc.

The liver can cope with its normal working rhythm and the production of bile without panicking.

Yellow light: when the diet consists of a maximum of 15% fat and part of this comes from unhealthy sources.

Then the liver goes into standby mode and increases bile production by 5 percent, which then becomes more acidic and can be likened to a degreasing agent.

Red light +: when the diet consists of more than 30% fat, some of which comes from fried foods, cooking oils (rapeseed, palm and corn oil), bacon and saturated fats, etc.

In this situation, the liver needs to use all its resources and produce an incredible amount of bile - an increase of 50% or more, so that the blood does not become too thick with fat.

The liver does everything it can to thin the blood out (even if it kills it too) by breaking down and removing fats that can damage the heart and pancreas.

Over time, bile production and reserves begin to diminish and the liver loses the ability to carry out certain chemical reactions, make acidic "degreasers" and give up large amounts of calcium to prevent damage to the intestinal walls.

In the long term, the liver loses its stored calcium and stores of other essential minerals.

When the liver becomes sluggish and clogged, it cannot keep the blood clean and you get "dirty blood" . It can't encapsulate all the viruses, toxins and fats and has to release some into the bloodstream which can cause damage to certain organs in the body and cause various symptoms.

So what you can do is cut down on the fat in your diet and fill your diet with more nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich foods such as fruits, berries and leafy greens. This gives your body more time to take care of and clear out toxins and viruses and things that are making you sick or will make you sick in the future.

It's also a good idea not to eat foods that contain fat and sugar at the same time, as the fat in the food stops the body absorbing sugar. (Many foods that you don't think of as high in sugar also contain sugar).

Examples of foods that contain both fat and sugar: ice cream, chocolatebars, French fries - natural sugar in the potato and fat, fried/roasted vegetables - natural sugar in the vegetables and fat, apple pie - fruit sugar and fat, etc.

If you help your liver to clear out toxins, it will be there for you, helping you to live longer and protect you from things that damage your body such as viruses, heavy metals and toxins that can make you sick.

This is just a fraction of information that I learned from the Medical Medium books. If you are interested to learn more then read Anthony William´s books or listnen to his free podcasts on Apple, Itunes or Spotify.

Souce: Medical Medium "Liver Rescue".