What is the liver supposed to do in your body?
The liver has many tasks to complete, and is working hard to keep your systems balanced. The main functions are:
1. Your liver secretes almost 1 litre of bile every day.
Let’s start to talk about the importance of secretion of bile. Your body needs a lot of bile on a daily basis to be able to stay healthy. Basically, almost all health problems are a direct or indirect consequence of reduced bile availability. Bile is a bitter, alkaline fluid of a yellow, brown, or green colour. It is produced by the liver, but is stored and concentrated in the gallbladder.
The bile has multiple functions:
Assisting with the digestion of fat, calcium, and protein foods.Maintaining normal fat levels in the blood,Removing toxins from the liver,Maintaining proper acid/alkaline balance in the intestinal tract.Helping colon from breeding harmful microbes.2. Your liver stores your blood.
A second function of the liver is to store the blood. During periods of activity the blood travels to your extremities so that you can move. When you are resting the blood goes to the liver where your blood is processed and purified.
However, if your liver is stagnant and not able to store the blood properly your extremities will not be nourished, and toxins might be released through the skin.
To help your liver cleanse your blood, I recommend that you don’t eat too much, and that your last meal is in the afternoon. By avoiding late meals you will allow your liver and gallbladder time to prepare for regeneration, which is most efficient between 11pm and 3am.
3. Your liver detoxifies your cells.
Many poisonous substances enter the blood. They then circulate to the liver, where they can be transformed into non-toxic substances. A common example is alcohol. As soon as you drink alcohol it will enter your bloodstream, and go to your liver for detoxification. Without a functioning liver all of the toxins would accumulate and cause serious problems to your health.
4. Your liver helps metabolism in your body.
Your liver plays a major role in breaking down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
5. Your liver stores several substances, such as: iron, vitamins A, B12, and D.
Both vitamins and minerals play a huge part in your well being. However, they are only beneficial when taken in the proper amounts and ratios. For you to make best use of these vitamins and minerals your liver has the ability to store some for later use.
Bear in mind that your liver can only store fat-soluble vitamins, so all the water-soluble vitamins must still be supplied in your diet on a regular basis. (For example Vitamin C)
6. Your liver destroys old blood cells.
Red blood cells usually live for about 3 months. They then often break apart as they age, and the liver helps to ingest and destroy these blood cells, which helps keep your blood clean.
7. Your liver is in charge of your body’s planning.
The liver is said to be the “planner” in your body, and the gallbladder is the “decision maker”. This means that your ability to organise, plan and make decisions is related to the well being of these organs.
Is this how it works for most people?
The liver is probably the most congested of all organs today. The way we eat, drink and constantly stress causes our livers to always work over time.
Our livers are usually victims for many kinds of excesses – the most common one being excess of food. As a society we eat way too much, especially rich and greasy food. This makes the liver swollen and sluggish. It just doesn’t have enough time to process everything we put into our body. The liver becomes tired and fatty, and the energy stagnates in the liver instead of being properly distributed around the body.
If the liver never rests from a state of congestion, neither does the kidneys, and eventually even the kidneys functions will weaken. A fatty liver also affects the blood, the pancreas, and the stomach. In other words, a weak liver can cause ulcers, abdominal inflammations, diabetes, gas and indigestion in general. Finally, most cases of heart disease are related to liver stagnation.
In fact, the origin of most diseases can easily be traced to the liver.
Did you know that your liver has a close relationship with your emotions?
One of the first signs of a stagnant liver is difficulty in dealing with anger. A sluggish liver can be expressed by anger, impatience, frustration, violence, rudeness, arrogance, stubbornness, aggression and an explosive personality. All of these emotions can cause depression. Mood swings in general are usually related to the liver.
Having too many desires can also stimulate a person to over-eat, or to just make inappropriate choices regarding food. It can be desires for sex, fame, power, or money. But these desires can take over your life and can blind your judgement. Desires like these aren’t healthy and can greatly damage your liver function. I’m not implying that you shouldn’t have dreams and goals. Not at all. But your dreams should come from your heart. Greed and power, on the contrary, are just based on insecurities.
Just let go.
So how does this affect you?
Your? liver actually has direct control over the growth and functioning of every cell in your body. Any kind of malfunction, deficiency, or abnormal growth pattern of the cell is largely due to poor liver performance. Think about this for a second.
What does that really mean? It means that if you strive to look after your liver, and give your liver everything it needs to function properly, you have a much higher chance to get well again, or to avoid diseases coming into your life.
Are you suffering from any of the common symptoms of a weak liver?
Difficulties with planningNervousnessTimidityLack of courage and initiativeHeadachesRepressed angerEmotional outburstsDepressionMoodinessFeeling emotionally overwhelmed and over-sensitiveUpset digestionAllergiesNauseaVomitingTirednessDry skinMuscular weakness and spasmsPins and needlesDry and brittle nailsPoor sleepPre menstrual tensionPeriod pain
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