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If you’re like most people , you’re probably utterly confused when it comes to choosing a proper weight loss plan. You’ve been bombarded by new miracle diets, and are wondering what are the health risks associated with them. When confronted with a weight loss problem and you want to shed unwanted pounds while actually improving your health you have to target the liver, the largest, most versatile organ in the body. The liver is most important to maintaining optimal body weight. One should look for a detoxification plan that boosts the liver’s ability to function at its highest level accelerating weight loss while improving one’s health.

You know when your liver is toxic when you are getting bloated and putting on weight around the waistline. You know when you start getting cellulite,or high cholesterol, high blood pressure, when you are fatigued ,and depressed. Skin rashes and poor complexion are other signs to look for.

The liver performs more than 400 different jobs, and is the body’s most important organ, functioning as a filter to cleanse the body of toxins, metabolize protein, control hormonal balance and produce immune boosting factors. Your liver is a work horse that can even regenerate its own damaged cells!

Your liver, however, is not invincible. When it lacks essential nutrients, or when it is overwhelmed by toxins, it no longer performs as it should.  Hormone imbalances may develop. Fat may accumulate in the liver and just under the skin, or in other organs. Toxins build up and get into the blood stream.

 Each day your liver produces about a quart of a yellowish , green liquid called bile ,that emulsifies and absorbs fats in the small intestine. Bile is stored near the liver in the gallbladder,from where it is transported to the intestine as needed during digestion. Bile is the real key to the body’s ability digest and assimilate fats.If the liver is tired and toxic, its ability to produce enough bile is compromised and therefore this affects our weight loss efforts. 

The liver not only metabolises fats ,but proteins and carbohydrates as well.The liver has a triple role in carbohydrate metabolism. When the liver is sluggish, carbohydrates is not metabolised and weight gain is the automatic result. It converts various amino acids into various proteins that may have a direct or indirect impact upon your weight. Many proteins transport proteins through the blood stream, and hormone balance is critical to avoid water retention, bloating and cravings, as well other health problems.

 Proteins also help transport wastes, such as damaged cholesterol, and used estrogen and insulin to the liver, for detoxification and elimination through the kidney.  The liver’s most important function, and the one that puts it at greatest risk for damages, is to detoxify the myriad toxins that assault our bodies daily.

Working together with the lungs, kidneys, skin and intestines, a healthy liver detoxifies many harmful substances and eliminates them with out contaminating the bloodstream. 

Common liver stressors are caffeine from  coffee , chocolate, cocoa, tea, and some soft drinks, kola nut, and a host of  over the counter medications.Sugar is also a terrible liver stressor. You may say you don’t use sugar, but you may be ingesting it from, a lot of prepared food quite unknowingly. In the process of being metabolised, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients, some of which like zinc, are essential for liver function. Sugar also inhibits your liver’s production of enzymes, needed in the detoxification process.

A major liver stressor, is trans fat or trans fatty acids found in solid fats or semi solid fats like margarine. Trans fat impede your liver’s ability to burn fat. 

Some medications also cause the liver to work harder. Sometimes it’s best to look for a natural form of healing to replace a synthetic product. 

Not eating adequate amounts of fibre can also put pressure on the liver, for fibre helps remove toxins out of the body. For example, insoluble fibres from flax seed oil, absorbs water in the digestive tract and speeds up the time taken to move materials out through the intestines. Without adequate fibre,90% of cholesterol and bile acids would be reabsorbed and recirculated to the liver. This taxes your liver and reduces its fat burning abilities. 

Regardless of the cause, a sluggest overworked liver, does a poor job metabolising fat and you therefore gain weight. So how do we care for a tired toxic liver? Look for a product that cleanses the liver and probably other organs as well. Dr. Miller’s Wholy Tea is becoming very popular among many people today for the effectiveness with which it cleanses not only the liver but the kidneys and the entire bowel system as well. It contains herbs famous for being just those jobs ,especially the cleansing of the liver and bowels .It contains Permisson leaves, Malva leaves, Marshmallow leaves, Golden and Holy Thistle,and is very pleasant tasting.    

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