Liver Cleanse and Toxins

A healthy liver deals with literally thousands of types of toxins every single day of your life. These include the airborne pollutants that you breathe in such as industrial pollutants from hundreds of different sources, urban ones such as car fumes, social ones such as cigarette smoke, domestic ones such as household and cosmetic chemicals, and can also come as a result of the damaging effects of radiation and electromagnetic fields (even sitting in front of the television can cause problems).

They include the thousands of toxic chemicals that can be in your food as a result of agricultural processes, food processes and preserving, from the water supply or by accident. They also come from the substances applied to your skin, from drugs (social or medical). Furthermore, a number of toxic substances are made in your body as you metabolise used tissues and materials such as hormones that have done their job.

Your liver either gets rid of these toxins directly, via your gall bladder in bile and through the digestive tract, or it converts them to safer compounds, i.e. the conversion of ammonia (from proteins) to urea, or else it breaks them down altogether.

The efficient processing of toxins can protect you from a variety of degenerative diseases including heart disease, diabetes and arthritis, and can reduce your risk of getting cancer. This on its own should encourage you to follow the Liver Detox Plan.

Your liver repackages various other nutrients, including some of the vitamins, such as vitamin A and E, and some minerals, such as iron and copper, as we have seen. If this repackaging is not completed efficiently, you may, for example, experience both vitamin A deficiency signs in the surrounding tissues and vitamin A toxicity signs as it accumulates in the liver. The liver stores B vitamins needed for energy, particularly B12, of which it can store several week's supply.

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