7 ALKALIZING FOODS THAT CLEANSE THE LIVER – garlic, grapefruit, green grasses, green vegetables, avocado, walnuts, and tumeric.
Our liver works extremely hard everyday to protect us from adverse affects from metabolic an dietary acid and often it is easy for our liver to become overwhelmed compromising our health significantly.
Here are 7 common foods you can include daily to help cleanse your liver naturally. The primary way in which your body expels metabolic, dietary and environmental acid is via the liver, which detoxifies and cleanses your body by continuously filtering the blood of poisons that enter it through the digestive tract, the skin, and the respiratory system. But when your liver becomes overworked as a result of stress or excessive exposure to acid, your entire system can be thrown off balance, and your health severely compromised.
Since the liver is also responsible for producing alkalizing bile, another form of detoxification that is metabolically necessary for the breakdown and elimination of metabolic, environmental and dietary acid from your lifestyle. It is exceedingly important that your liver be properly alkalized with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. Without a well-functioning liver, your body will be unable to cleanse and detox itself from metabolic and dietary acid, which is a recipe for a health disaster.
So here are seven important alkalizing foods you may want to begin incorporating into your diet in order to maintain a healthy alkaline liver.
1. Garlic and Onion
Garlic contains numerous sulfur-containing compounds that are responsible for flushing out dietry and metabolic acid from the body. This bulbous relative of the onion also contains allicin and selenium, two powerful nutrients proven to help protect the liver from acidic damage, and aid it in the detoxification process.
2. Grapefruit
Grapefruit is rich in natural vitamin C and antioxidants, two powerful liver cleansers. Like garlic, grapefruit contains compounds that buffer excess acids. It also contains a flavonoid compound known as naringenin that causes the liver to bind up acids for elimination rather than storing them in the fatty tissues.
3. Green Grasses
Green grasses, like wheat and barley grass are loaded with chlorophyll, a the main molecule in green grasses that buffers excess metabolic and dietary acids. The increase in chlorophyll from green grasses also helps in detoxing the small bowel and liver and maintaining the alkaline design of the body.
4. Green Vegetables
Leafy green vegetables such as bitter gourd, arugula, dandelion greens, spinach, mustard greens, and chicory also contain numerous cleansing compounds that neutralize heavy metals, which can bear heavily on the liver. Leafy greens also eliminate pesticides and herbicides from the body, and spur the creation and flow of cleansing alkalizing bile.
5. Avocado
Rich in glutathione-producing compounds, avocados actively promote liver health by protecting it against toxic acidic overload, and boosting its cleansing power. Some research has shown that eating one or two avocados a week for as little as 30 days can repair a damaged liver. Dr. Robert O. Young recommends eating an avocado a day keeps the doctor away.
6. Walnuts
Walnuts, which contain high levels of l-arginine, an amino acid, glutathione, and omega-3 fatty acids, also help detoxify the liver of disease-causing ammonia. Walnuts also help oxygenate the blood, and extracts from their hulls are often used in liver-cleansing formulas.
7. Tumeric
Turmeric, one of the most powerful foods for maintaining a healthy liver, has been shown to actively protect the liver against toxic damage, and even regenerate damaged liver cells. Turmeric also boosts the natural production of bile, shrinks engorged hepatic ducts, and improves overall function of the gallbladder, another body-purifying organ.
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Great blog entry today Dr. Young. I would like to see something on water and how I can raise the pH of the water without a $1700 ionizer. Also, which type of water is best (distilled, spring, drinking). Keep up the awesome work for it has truly changed people's lives for the better, and is greatly appreciated.
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Yes, thank you! I appreciate your work. It is helping me to change MY life. I was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and I'm in a mode of radical self-care and education about health and nutrition. I agree with LikeALion…with very limited funds, I am searching for a good solution to drinking water. Can you make a recommendation? It's a shame that insurance companies will pay for toxic prescription medicine and not technology that would our health.
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Yes, thank you! I appreciate your work. It is helping me to change MY life. I was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and I'm in a mode of radical self-care and education about health and nutrition. I agree with LikeALion…with very limited funds, I am searching for a good solution to drinking water. Can you make a recommendation? It's a shame that insurance companies will pay for toxic prescription medicine and not technology that would support our health.
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Boiled, powedered and dried turmeric is suitable? This is what is sold in the shops. How much is the optimal amount per day?
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Liver is one of the important part of our body. It plays vital role in the metabolism of body. You have to try to clean this because with some food it hurts and creates major problem for you. Above foods helps you to clean your liver.
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Kathryn, sorry to hear about your diagnosis and it is sad that the medical system puts more emphasis on treatment than prevention, and also the heavy duty prescription of chemicals over education on how diet can improve conditions.
Daniel is right, the liver is the most important part of our body. Keep this free of toxins and you will experience better health overall.
Acetyl L Glutathione is a great detoxifier of the liver, and of course it is important to keep your body pH in check by consuming high alkaline foods.
Great post.
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