Green tea seems to have endless benefits. I don’t like the stuff but am feeling convinced to force it down

The liver is an amazing organ that does an amazing job of looking after itself. I had a fatty liver thanks to a very infected gallbladder. My liver was just getting ready to become cirrhosis but thankfully the cause was discovered just in time. I spent 10 days in hospital 7 of them on various IV antibiotics to get on top of the infection in my gallbladder before I could ahve the surgery to have it removed. Within 6months of the surgery my liver was healthy again.

It’ so important to put good things into our bodies to keep them functioning well.

that detox juice doesn’t sound too bad might give it a try

Thank you for the valuable tips and great recipe!

Liver and kidney are very important organs that act as our natural cleaner inside our body. Must look after them.

Well, I obviously really need to work on my liver. I don’t do any of the above points.

already do some of the things recommended for the liver. Dr say I have fatty liver so took note of ones for me not already doing

Very interesting healthy juice.Thank for sharing.

there ARE SOME VERY INVIGORATING IDEAS HERE. We love broccoli and cauliflower but give the brussle sprouts a big miss.

Always interesting to read health tips. I do some of your list like drinking vegetable juices, green tea, dandelion tea and using turmeric and like to eat iron rich foods

A very interesting post – will take a lot of this on board.

Great read. My partner could definitely use some of these haha

Thank you for the information and the comments below. Will be looking into this and try out this drink.

Please, have blood tests to determine your liver function first.
Some people develop hereditary liver problems including diseases which can be aggravated by food high in some nutriments. I can give you one such example. This particular disease is hereditary and more common in people of European descent. Haemochromotosis is also known as Iron Overload Disease. It is aggravated by food with high iron content such as beetroot (listed in the juice recipe above) and in some cases alcohol. I must point out that not all people who develop this disease have ever consumed alcohol. Some symptoms include pain in the region of the liver, and jaundice (yellowing of the skin – orit can go an olive or quite darkish colour) and in severe cases the whites of your eyes will go yellow. In some blood is “taken” regularly. In the early stages hospital admission is sometimes necessary. As the condition improves the regular blood removal is less frequent and hospital admission shouldn’t be needed. It is usually help by an amended diet containing less iron and complete removal of alcohol. My late Uncle had this diesease and later passed away as a result of Liver Cancer. While his disease was really severe he had active Diabetes and a heart problem, both caused no issues when iron levels were under control. His BGL returned to normal of its own accord. Via medical supervision he returned to a sensible non- diabetic diet. He agreed and was part of an intense medical trial to try to find better treatment for all sufferers, and to hopefully to detect it at a much earlier stage. There are other illnesses that can be liver or blood related which some foods thought to be healthy can aggravate.

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  • • staceylee replied
    • 01 Jul 2016 , 10:24 pm

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  Yes Correct, Hemochomatosis can affect the liver if undiagnosed, however liver enzymes don’t necessarily become affected by this until this disease has been untreated for sometime. A simple blood test for Iron studies looking at serum ferritin and saturation would be sufficient to detect this genetic disease. Many people suffering from haemachromotosis have symptoms associated with this which would naturally lead a health practitioner to be suspicious or in my clinic setting, i would use Live Blood Analysis under the microscope and detect it straight away. Anyone wanting to improve their liver function would still benefit from using the above nutrients for general over all health with out having to seek pathology reports from their GP.
  Thanks for the insight into Hemochromatosis as i’m sure many may not have heard of it before. x

I also was told that drinking a cup of hot water with lemon first thing in the morning is good for your liver. Do you know if this is true or an old wives tale?

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  • • staceylee replied
    • 01 Jul 2016 , 10:17 pm

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  Lemon in hot water is great for our health but not necessarily for our Liver. It’s great to kick start our digestive system and helps to keep our bodies alkalised as apposed to having an acidic environment.
  A lot of people fear having lemon in their water would mean more acid but lemon actually has a alkalised ash (residue) once we ingest it.

I’ve never heard of that N Acetyl Cysteine. Interesting?
Should we detoxify the liver once a year?

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  • • staceylee replied
    • 01 Jul 2016 , 10:29 pm

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  The Liver is a large organ much like a vaccum cleaner. It will still work, but how effective depends on how clogged the vaccum is with junk. Before Detoxing the liver or do any major work on the liver, i also support and do some work on the GUT first. Our liver gets the overload and burden from our Guts and whatever our gut environment can’t deal with.
  I do suggest to all my clients to support and clean their gut and liver every 12 months. x

Turmeric seems to be the super food of the moment. Thanks for the juice, will definitely try.

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  • • staceylee replied
    • 01 Jul 2016 , 10:27 pm

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  Tumeric has amazing Anti Inflammatory and Anti cancer properties.
  We do have to consume large amounts in food for it to have a therapeutic affect. There are a lot of supplements out there now for that reason containing 1 – 3g of Tumeric which i use in large doses up to 6g per day for my clients.

This is important, but there’s no way I’m drinking anything that looks like that!

A great article full of alot of information for our liver,thanks for your detox juice also!

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  • • staceylee replied
    • 29 Jun 2016 , 8:48 am

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  Great to hear the juice will coming in handy. Always happy to share x