The Liver And Bile Formation

Let's look at what the liver does in slightly more detail.

As a vital part of your digestive system, the liver secretes bile, without which you cannot digest fats. Faulty fat digestion can lead to associated problems with digestion in general, affecting proteins and carbohydrates as well as the fats.

How can you tell whether this is happening? If you find that fatty foods disagree with you, make you feel nauseous or even bloated, this may be your problem. You may also find that your stools are pale in colour, since the colour comes from the bile pigments, or that they float or, in severe cases, that there is obvious fat in them and they stick to the pan and become difficult to flush away.

Bile also stimulates the peristaltic action of both your small and large intestine and thus helps to prevent constipation. This in turn helps to prevent a number of other intestinal problems, and to reduce the formation and absorption of several different toxins.

It helps to prevent candidiasis, since having the proper movement along the intestines reduces the risk of developing an environment in which the candida mould can flourish.

Bile helps to prevent allergic, or food sensitivity, reactions within the intestinal tract and so can reduce such problems as gastritis, spastic colon and irritable bowel syndrome, all of which can be due to food sensitivities.

Being constipated can lead to great pressure at the end of the colon, particularly when you try to pass a bowel motion, and this is a common cause of haemorrhoids.

If all that isn't enough, by maintaining a healthy internal environment, proper peristaltic action and liver bile function can help to reduce the risk of bowel cancer.

When you are constipated a number of toxins can build up in the digestive tract and become absorbed into the bloodstream. They then have to be dealt with by the liver in its role as a detox organ.

If your liver does not deal with them your body will try to get rid of them in other ways. This may result in or aggravate skin problems as you try to eliminate them through the pores. It may put an excessive load on your kidneys. You will almost certainly find grey circles under your eyes and white fatty deposits in tissues such as the skin under your eyes and on your limbs. If all else fails you may store the toxins in your adipose tissues.

These are then reluctant to break down, as the toxins would be released, and so weight loss becomes difficult. Toxins in the digestive tract can move back up the system leading to bad breath, in which case no amount of brushing your teeth and spraying with mouth deodorisers will solve the problem; it's your liver you need to work on.

In fact an unhealthy liver can cause a whole range of problems related to indigestion from top to bottom.

Once bile has been produced by the liver, it is stored in the gall bladder, which then secretes it as necessary. If the liver has not done a good job, or if you have not, in your diet, supplied it with the correct raw materials, the composition of the bile may be less than optimum.

This can lead to the formation of gallstones, small accretions that build up within the gall bladder, reducing both its ability to store bile and to secrete it appropriately. These stones may be made either of calcium salts, in which case they can be detected by X-rays, or of cholesterol.

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