"The Health You Deserve" Email Newsletter
Issue No. 11 - Feb 2001


With the onset of the new year and the poor food combining most of us practiced over the holidays, cleansing should be upper-most in your mind to get you back on track.

Why cleanse the liver? The rules of yester-year do not apply today. Today we find our water, air, and food full of toxic chemicals. Yes the body does naturally cleanse but only to a point. Your liver handles over 300 functions, including the major burden of getting rid of toxins from your body. Both the kidney and the liver can become overwhelmed with this daily task due to the overabundance of chemicals and carcinogenic materials we ingest.

What is placing this extra burden on our health and detoxification organs (liver and kidneys)?
  • dioxin from tobacco products
  • nitrates in ALL processed meats (check the labels)
  • carbon tetrachloride (compound used in dry cleaning that is absorbed through the skin)
  • drugs (prescription and non-prescription)
  • chlorine (absorbed through the skin in the shower and ingested through drinking unfiltered tap water)
  • emotional stress
  • alcohol
  • food additives in all processed foods (the average North American ingests up to 5 pounds of chemicals from their diet every year!!)
These toxins often participate in initiating diseases by accumulating in the body. The liver can only handle so much and then it begins to slow down under the heavy burden we place on it every day. Toxins that are stored in the liver cause inflammation - first acute, then chronic, leading to possible degenerative changes.

Gouty arthritis is a typical example of this process as toxic uric acid crystals are focused in joint-lining membranes. Our modern lifestyles and diets contribute too many toxins for our liver to deal with on a regular basis. Chemicals and drugs ingested into the body will be eliminated as quickly as possible because they are poisonous. However, if they cannot be acted on quickly enough, they will be stored in the cells, muscles, or fat. After prolonged abuse, a body becomes saturated with toxins, body fluids become acidic, and the body must initiate a cleansing. The cleansing takes the form of disease, and this can use up a tremendous amount of energy, leaving you feeling fatigued on a daily basis. It is easy to understand that any foreign interference will upset the body's delicately balanced mechanism.

The avenues of body detoxification are the lymphatics, liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and skin. If we live within our capacity to eliminate the toxins produced by normal metabolic functioning, then there is never a need for the body to bring on disease to facilitate cleansing. However, if toxins overcome the body's ability to eliminate, they begin to interfere with normal functions.

When toxic levels become too high within the body, the body, being capable of taking care of itself, will initiate a healing process. A relatively healthy body will bring on a cold or flu if it needs this means to shed toxins. The extremely healthy body will probably not need to take this measure because all defenses are handled through normal metabolism. When the toxic levels become too high for the body to handle naturally, the sudden onset of liver, kidney, heart or cellular (cancer) problems begin.

We must cleanse our liver on a regular basis (with each change of season) if true health is to be found. Fatigue is the first sign that something is very wrong with your body. Most people who cleanse on a regular basis find a renewed energy and strength after the cleansing process.

Here is a simple liver/kidney cleanse I would like to recommend:

1 cup raw grated beets (2 large)
2 Tbsp. organic olive oil
2 Tbsp. fresh squeezed organic lemon juice

Take 2 tablespoons before each meal for 3 weeks.

After you have completed the cleanse, please email us with your comments.

Liver Cleansing Tips:

  • DIET: While cleansing, increase your intake of fresh vegetables (organic if possible) and non-animal protein. Elimination of alcohol, sugar, dairy, and animal products will help the body in the detoxification process.
  • Warm baths daily, steam baths, meditation, mild exercises, and massage are all very helpful during intense cleansing periods.
  • Drink pure water.
  • Practice proper food combining. In particular, don't combine high protein foods with high carbohydrate foods in the same meal.





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