Let’s share an indepth review of The Basics of Liver Cleansing and Detoxification.
Below you will find a series of common questions regarding liver detoxification and what the liver does for cleansing the body. After reading this Liver Cleansing 101, you will completely understand how the liver works. 
Q: How is Liver Important for the Body Detoxification Process?
A: When it comes to natural detoxification and cleansing process performed by the body, no organ is more important than your liver. This is true for all chemicals, not just environmental toxins, pharmaceutical drugs, or alcohol intake.
The body’s primary ability to defend itself against all metabolic poisoning is carried out by the liver. The sophisticated mechanisms (enzymes, etc) contained in liver cells have evolved over millions to help breakdown most toxic substances we encounter throughout our lifetime. Most drugs, hormones, pesticides, and other artificial chemicals are broken down by specific enzyme pathways inside the liver cells.
It is important to be aware that many of the harmful toxic chemicals which enter the body are fat-soluble. All this means is they do not dissolve in water, only in fatty or oily solutions. This puts a burden on the body overtime because it makes them difficult for the body to excrete naturally. Cell membranes are made up of fat tissues and fatty substances, and these fat-soluble chemicals have a high affinity for cellular membranes. These toxins can be stored for years in the fatty parts of the body, only being released during stress, fasting (juice cleansing), times of exercise, or supplementation of zeolite and silica which we will touch on later.
As a side note, symptoms such as poor memory, stomach pain, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, or nausea may occur during the release of these harmful toxins.
The liver has two primary methods to facilitate and aid the body in converting fat soluble chemicals into water soluble chemicals. These watery fluids such as urine and bile allow the body to easily excrete unwanted toxins and heavy metals. Let’s keep the discussion rolling and discuss the liver detoxification pathways.
Q: What are the Liver Detoxification Pathways?
A: The liver has three distinct detoxification and cleansing pathways:
1) Blood Detoxification – helping filter the blood to remove larger toxins.
2) Using enzymes to render unwanted toxic chemicals
- Phase I, the liver does is ‘modify’ the chemicals to make them an easier target for
- Phase II, enzyme systems.
3) Secreting and synthesizing bile for excretion of fat-soluble cholesterol and toxins.
Q: How does the Liver Cleanse? How Does The Liver Act as a Filter?
A: The liver’s primary function is the filtering of the blood. Roughly every minute two quarts of blood pass through the liver to be detoxified. This necessary function is vital as blood can be overloaded with fungi, parasites, bacteria, endotoxins, viruses, heavy metals, etc.
While most of these toxic chemicals enter the bloodstream via the intestines, some can be through inhalation or absorption from the skin. Before toxins and bacteria join the general blood circulation system, a healthy liver will clear nearly 100% of all unnecessary and harmful substances.
Recognition of the liver’s ability to cleanse and detoxify with its unparalleled filtering capacity is extremely important; however we must note it is not limitless. Meaning the liver must process what it filters and if this filtering system becomes overburdened with toxic substances, the filtering will be significantly reduced slowing down and limiting its detoxification function.
Q: What does the Liver do with the Toxins it traps?
A: The liver’s second main responsibility in detoxification involves the neutralization of unwanted chemical compounds (drugs, pesticides, heavy metals, etc) from the intestines by an enzymatic process in two steps/phases. Even the body’s own chemical compounds such as hormones are eliminated this way.
Step 1, or phase 1 for liver cleansing essentially breaks down the chemicals into intermediate forms to attempt to directly neutralize them. Simply put, Phase I begins the conversion of a toxic chemical into a less harmful version. This allows for step 2, or Phase II enzymes to render the toxic substances useless. This is done by a liver process known as conjugation. This is what makes the toxin or drug water-soluble so it can be easily excreted. If however, Phase II detoxification systems are not working adequately, this allows more chemically active compounds to linger and cause long term damage. Thus, the enzyme detoxification pathways of the liver are critical for our daily processing of thousands of toxins.
Q: How does Making and Secreting Bile Aid Detoxification?
A: The third major role of the liver is secretion and synthesis of bile. Bile is the key ingredient that servers as a natural carrier for toxic substances to be effectively and safely removed from the body. A healthy liver manufactures nearly one quart of bile each and every day to assist and aid the body in cleansing and detoxification. Liver bile also has additional detox benefits, helping emulsify fat soluble vitamins and fats in the intestine, improving their utilization and absorption.
The problems begin to mount up when the excretion of bile is inhibited (cholestasis) allowing toxins to live longer in the liver with crucial health-damaging effects. Gallstones can also cause obstruction of bile flowing into the bile ducts. In the United States, by far the most important issue for impaired liver function is the over-consumption of alcohol and liquor. The liver needs to remain functioning at a higher level of efficiency to keep up the pace with the bombardment of all these chemicals we are exposed to daily.
Q: What is Toxic Overload? Why Liver Cleansing?
A: Plainly put, if the natural detoxification pathways become overloaded, phase 1 and phase 2 will become less effective and a buildup of toxins will occur.
Many of the toxic substances and heavy metals we encounter are fat-solube and incorporate into fatty tissues and parts of the body, where they can live, feed, and damage for years on end, if not a lifetime if no detoxification and cleansing is done. These fat soluble toxins like to accumulate in fatty organs such as your brain and endocrine glands (hormones). These common sites for toxic overload could result in severe symptoms of hormonal imbalances and brain dysfunction. This ultimately leads to common ailments like breast pain, adrenal gland exhaustion, early menopause, infertility, and Alzheimer’s. These carcinogenic chemicals (pesticides, petrochemicals, heavy metals) have been increasing every year in our air, water, food, and environment since being recorded implicating the rising incidence of many cancers and diseases.
Q: What is Active Liver Detoxification?
A: The ongoing, everyday detox lifestyle that is required if you eat processed foods, drink tap water, live in a big city, or breathe polluted air.
It is nearly impossible in this day an age to achieve optimal health considering the incredible metabolic stress our bodies encounter by living with modern day demands of the toxic environment lifestyle. You must be active and undergo regular detoxification treatments and cleanses.
Even if you devote yourself to clearing everything away that is remotely toxic, there is so much invisible radiation, pollution, and heavy metals that one can never eliminate them entirely.
Using chelation therapy, numerous studies have linked heavy metal detoxification to improvements with kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular diseases. By saying detoxification protocol or active detoxification, we encompass a wide variety of natural therapies designed to cleanse and detox the body of impurities and toxins.
The most important aspect is that YOU FOLLOW a DETOX PROGRAM, and attempt to do it as regularly as you feel. Whether this means making small changes like drinking purified water, fasting, avoiding processed foods, meat, dairy products, or drinking organic fruit and vegetable juices, consistently detoxifying your body will have a profound impact on your health. Whether you chose a new diet or completely brand new lifestyle habits, there are many choices you can do for personal detoxification and cleansing.
Basics of Liver Cleansing and Detoxification Conclusion
From the information provided here, by now it should be very clear and apparent that not only do each of us sequester and accumulate toxins at different speeds, but we eliminate or neutralize them at different rates. The bulk of the toxins and heavy metals we come across in modern day living are not soluble in water, so a conversion by the liver, kidney, and other major organs needs to take place before we can safely remove them from the body, via the kidneys or sweating. The organ most responsible for carrying out this conversion is the liver.
It should be obvious that a large body burden is placed on the liver as a heavy demand and flow of heavy metals and toxins are processed. The liver needs clean, clear, vibrant cells to help create proteins that can naturally attach to a volatile organic compound or toxic metal to render them harmless and useless for removal. If the liver is over burdened, it can not make the proteins required for getting rid of other chemicals like prescription medications and drugs.
Hopefully we effectively established the vital necessity to one’s health and wellbeing for regular detoxification protocols.
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