The BEST 7 Foods to Clean Out Your Liver

today we're going to show you the best seven foods that you need to be eating to clean out your liver now what many people don't realize about the liver is they think it's a storage place for toxins when it normally does not store toxins it gets rid of toxins now toxins are stored in the fat cells so if you have a fatty liver chances are you will have toxins stored in your liver but if you don't have fat on your liver you're not going to store toxins now before i get into the foods i want to jump right into what the liver does okay so number one it helps detoxify the body so let's go to the white board to explain that point all right check this out we have the liver and the liver goes through two different phases actually three phases but i'm going to focus on these two phases right here when it gets rid of poisons or toxins phase one is all about breaking things down okay turning poisons into a water-soluble harmless particle which is in the phase two so we've got this whole chemical reaction there's a lot of different chemical reactions that occur not just one so phase one is breaking things down and then phase two is about adding things to that uh new molecule and you need certain nutrients on both of these sections you have b vitamins you need antioxidants b12 folate and a lot of other nutrients so what is the liver breaking down it's breaking down plastics pesticides insecticides herbicides fungicides alcohol caffeine drugs aspirin tylenol corticosteroids antidepressants high blood pressure medications recreational drugs pollution and and the million chemicals that come with that both in the air the water in your food and then you have people that are smokers or you get secondhand smoke benzene and hundreds of other different chemicals that's going right through your body into your liver that the liver is coping with and trying to get rid of all these things solvent and glyphosate which is in gmo food this is like a real big one for a lot of people so then a kind of phase three would be the elimination of this new compound that's now a harmless particle and it's quite amazing that your body does this because your body is able to detoxify naturally which is really cool now what happens if you get constipation well everything backs up so it's very important to not let constipation go on and on and on do something about it i have a lot of videos on that but there's another condition that's very common but they're not aware of it and that's bile sludge there's such a thing as bio sludge and so you have the gallbladder and you have all these tubes that kind of drain into the gallbladder and out into the small intestine all these different tubes can get backed up with kind of a thickened bile material and so one way to know if you have that problem is you have pain or tension or tightness on the right side up through here it could be a fullness underneath your right rib cage in which case you need to number one take something called tutka you can look that up as well as follow the solutions that i'm going to get into later in this video now a couple other things that can mess this process up let's say you're missing b vitamins you don't have the right nutrients that can slow things down or let's say you have a fatty liver that can decrease the function of the liver or if the liver is inflamed or if you have scar tissue as in cirrhosis all these things can slow down this process as well as not consuming some of the foods i'm going to talk about but the good news about the liver is that it's one of the only organs that can regenerate very quickly as long as you have some liver left like 25 percent and you change your ways your liver can grow back into a normal liver so that's really exciting but there's always a point of limitation where there's too much damage that can be done this explains liver detox all right number two it actually makes something called bile bile is uh very similar to like detergent or soap it helps to extract certain nutrients and food that are fat cybel like the fat cyber vitamins vitamin a d e k 1 k 2 also omega 3 fatty acids also there are certain plant nutrients they're called phytonutrients like lutein for example that's really good for the eye and so a lot of these phytonutrients in plants are also fat soluble this is why when you have a salad it's really good to add olive oil or some other oil to help extract these nutrients from the salad but bile has this unique property to extract these nutrients from your food and bile is made from your liver and it's stored in the gallbladder and as a side note all the extra cholesterol that your body makes as well as gets from your diet is extracted with the help of bile bile is also involved in helping you make your thyroid hormones work so when we go through t4 which is an inactive hormone to t3 which is the active form of the thyroid hormone you need bile and bile also helps us to ensure that there's no microbes building up in our small intestine and one last little point of a bile which is interesting guess what makes bile cholesterol cholesterol is the raw material that helps make bile interesting all right number three function of the liver your liver makes certain hormones okay now you've probably heard of growth hormone that's made by your pituitary and that goes down to the liver and then that activates another hormone that the liver makes called insulin growth factor number one igf-1 and you can think of igf-1 as just basically an extension of growth hormone so whatever growth hormone does igf-1 will do so it's going to help you with fat burning and it's going to help you make proteins now as another part of this liver function related to hormones it helps you buffer hormones so if there's too much estrogen in the body or too much androgens like testosterone your liver will help to regulate that also if there's too much of stress hormone like cortisol the liver will help you regulate that as well so whether the liver becomes fatty or inflamed or develops scar tissue as in cirrhosis all sorts of symptoms can occur and to help you understand the symptoms let's go back to my white board all right these are the symptoms of the liver itchiness especially in your feet fatigue or lethargy belly fat because the liver is filling up with fat and it's spilling off into areas around the organs and in the organs in your abdomen diabetes and pre-diabetes and insulin resistance which comes before both of those things hormonal imbalances especially with estrogen testosterone which have all sorts of cascade issues from hair loss to menstrual cycle issues to menopausal problems many different types of skin problems occur because of the liver joint issues like especially arthritis stiffness and things related to the gallbladder like belching burping bloating gall stones as well as hypothyroidism because we need a healthy liver to convert at least 80 percent of the thyroid from t4 the inactive to t3 the active form of the thyroid hormone now there's a couple little last things i want to mention you have these liver enzyme tests ast alt alp if you ever get your liver tested and there's problem with one of these three high liver enzymes like ast that means there's damage from toxins like it could be alcohol medication or some other toxin whereas if it's a high alt that's mainly damaged from just having a fatty liver and then if it's high alp that could mean you have a blockage in your bile duct okay or bile sludge so these are the main liver symptoms now i do want to touch on the bad foods for the liver before the good foods so let me just quickly go through them the high fructose corn syrup okay anything with high amounts of fructose is really bad for your liver because it creates all sorts of problems with insulin it creates a fatty liver okay so then we have like various poisons for the liver so poisons is a pretty large category you have pesticides insecticides herbicides fungicides you have heavy metals okay all these things can be in our food supply but you also have other poisons like medications yes medications are also poisons and so a lot of people develop complications from their medications that involve damaging the liver especially things like prednisone right is it which is a synthetic cortisol just devastating to your liver then you have many others like antacids antibiotics vegetable oils these are unsaturated oils like corn oil like soy oil cottonseed canola safflower and too much sunflower and too much peanut oil are all high in something called omega-6 which are inflammatory especially if they're heated as in fried foods you know i see this a lot when you go to restaurants they have these appetizers which you eat to stimulate your appetite like maybe you weren't hungry at all going to this restaurant you need to stimulate your appetite get the juices going and you have things that are always involving these vegetable oils like deep-fried onion rings or the deep-fried cheese or deep-fried pickles or corn chips then you have things that are fried in the oil and sweetened like the deep fried chicken wings that they have then you have these veggie rolls which are deep fried and then you dip them in some type of sugary sauce right then you have other things with the corn chips you have all these different dips all these wonderful appetizers are just terrible for the liver what's also hard in the liver is when you have sugar with protein as in barbecue ribs okay so that's really hard on the liver ribs are fine as long as you don't add the sugary type sauce with them and then we also have the combination of like meat and starch right then you have steak and potato or steak and fries well you should have this have the steak and the vegetable but not the starch and especially not the french fried starch all these things are really hard on the liver the more cooked foods that you eat the more canned foods you eat the harder it is on the liver as well so that means the body has to make enzymes and it kind of depletes the enzyme reserve and so at least 50 percent of the time you should be consuming some raw foods like vegetables things like that and of course we have alcohol sugar refined foods like refined carbohydrates now one point about the liver if your liver is damaged or fatty okay and it's swollen that may refer pain to the right side of your back a little bit lower right between the scapula and the spine it's called the rhomboid muscle and you'll have tightness in the back right through here i used to have that for many many years i had no idea what it was and it would go to the chiropractor and have millions of adjustments and it never got better well that's because it was my liver now if the gallbladder itself is congested not necessarily with stones but just with sludge that creates tightness on the right part of your right trap right through here that can radiate up to your neck and you'll a lot of times get that massage for so many years without relief now if the ducts the little bile ducts between the liver and the gallbladder are kind of clogged because they're sludge or stone that can refer pain anywhere in this area because it can back up to the liver as well as some fullness or tightness or pain underneath the right rib cage okay so i just wanted to point that out all right so what are the foods that are best for the liver well it would be those foods that provide detoxification that provide lowering inflammation that helps slow down the scarring process and the development into cirrhosis let's start with number one cruciferous vegetables that would be the kale the broccoli the arugula the cabbage the beets the brussels sprouts and there's many more so cruciferous vegetables not only have these enzymes to help this phase one phase two detoxification process but they also can trigger your own body's production of these enzymes to help the detoxification process plus they're loaded with nutrients as well as hundreds of phytonutrients that are anti-inflammatory that are anti-cancer that are liver protective that help your blood sugars so if we take it one step further and we take cabbage and ferment it into sauerkraut we have extra benefits of the probiotics in that product so that's going to help get rid of the fat from your liver it's going to reduce the inflammation on your liver and the fiber itself can actually feed the microbes in your colon to help make more bile which will then help you thin your bile and allow things to travel through the liver a lot better so it doesn't back up but sauerkraut is awesome for the liver because it's easy to digest it also is loaded with vitamin c i mean i think one cup of like homemade sauerkraut is almost 700 milligrams of vitamin c that's higher than anything else out there what i've been doing recently is not just having lettuce for my salad i'll alternate between cabbage i can cut cabbage or coleslaw and then other days i'll do arugula so that will just give me extra benefits than just having the regular lettuce and then sometimes i'll do a kale salad okay kale is like just a powerhouse as far as phytonutrients and some people steam it because sometimes it's hard to chew and digest in a salad what you might want to try is to take organic kale raw put it into the freezer freeze it take it out and then it breaks into these little crystals that you can then put into your blender add some blueberries with some water blend it up and drink your kale salad number two food is eggs now why are eggs good for the liver because eggs have the highest amount of choline and choline is one of the most powerful things to strip fat from your liver and it does a lot of other good things too but it will also help you regulate cholesterol but also as far as the detoxification process you need a high quality protein and eggs are at the top of the list to give you those amino acids that are necessary for detoxification but as far as the protein goes it is the highest quality protein that you can eat and it's very easy to digest and it's really easy on the liver compared to other proteins that are really hard on the liver the worst protein that you can eat for the liver is the soy protein isolates also whey protein is hard on liver because these isolates are kind of a refined protein product and anytime you eat something out of the normal complex your body has a hard time with it all right number three sprouts specifically broccoli sprouts but other sprouts are good too so what's so unique about the broccoli sprout is it has like a hundred times the amount of sulfurophane as adult broccoli and sulforaphane is one of those powerful phytonutrients that is not only cancer protective but it helps with this phase one phase two detoxification turning poisons into harmless particles so if you were to take just a small amount of sprouts and put them in your salad or take like a half a cup of sprouts put them in a blender with some berries and blend that down with water you would have something that is very beneficial for your liver all right number four beets beets have special properties that reduce inflammation in the liver help to mobilize the bile release from the liver beets are also good to reduce fat on your liver even though they're a little bit sweeter they also can help your blood sugars so you could eat your beets raw but it's really hard to chew so i would steam them and you can add them with all sorts of recipes and stews put them on your salad it's it's endless also as a side note don't shoot away the beet tops okay because the beet tops have the most potassium of anything you can eat so you want to chop those up put those in your salad all right number five garlic garlic is loaded with the sulfur that your liver needs to make those compounds in that phase one phase two detoxification not to mention it's anti-inflammatory it's antimicrobial so it does a lot for the liver all right number six salmon or other omega-3 fatty acid foods you can do sardines you can even do what i like is canned cob liver okay it's not just cod liver oil it's called liver it's quite good but one recipe that i really like in my salad is to chop up cabbage and take a can of tuna and mix it with the cabbage okay so now we have the omega-3 and the cruciferous together i'll put some lemon i'll put olive oil and i'll make a great salad another recipe that i like is roasted brussels sprouts with salmon that's a really good combination we got the omega-3 and the cruciferous and number seven is lemon lemon is not only loaded with vitamin c if it's raw not pasteurized but lemon can help reduce fat on your liver lemon is anti-inflammatory and it's very sour in anything sour or bitter is good for the liver so basically seven foods you could pretty much mix them all together and have one meal and that would be the most awesome meal for your liver now there's other things that are good for the liver as well like apple cider vinegar of course diluted in water and drink that great for blood sugars great for your liver especially for fatty liver then you have olive oil which helps you extract fat soluble nutrients from your salad and it has anti-inflammatory properties and you should really use the extra virgin olive oil in all of your salads now this is not necessarily a food it's just an herb but out of all the herbs okay that are good for the liver the top plant would be milk thistle now milk thistle has fascinating properties related to the liver it is liver protective it actually protects the liver from poisoning and all types of poisoning poisonous mushrooms uh poison from a snake poisons from tylenol alcohol heavy metals pesticides so if you have anything wrong with your liver you should probably be taking milk thistle as a routine thing especially if you're on medications because milk thistle can reduce the complications from medication now there's some fascinating information that i did a video on relating to certain problems with your foot and how you can use that to determine the health of your liver you haven't seen that video you should really check it out i put it up right here in the liver playlist

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Published: Wed Sep 28 2022