All you need to know about the Liver Cleanse

Why liver cleanse? “Fatty Liver” affects more than 50% of people over the age of 50 (healingdaily.com). Poor diet, excessive alcohol intake, viral hepatitis and reactions to toxic chemicals are a few of the causes. Tina Drucker, decided to test the cleanse. Stay tuned for her updates this week…

How to cleanse your liver:

1)??? Choose a day like Saturday for the cleanse, since you will be able to rest the next day.

2)??? Don’t take medicines, vitamins, or pills that you can do without (they can prevent success).

3)??? Eat a low-fat breakfast and lunch such as cooked cereal with fruit, fruit juice, bread, baked potato or other vegetables with salt only.? This allows the bile to build up and develop pressure in the liver.? Higher pressure pushes our more stones.

4)??? 2:00 PM – Do not eat or drink after 2:00.? If you break the rule you could feel quite ill later.? You may add 1/8 teaspoon vitamin C powder to the Epsom salt mixtures below to improve the taste.? Don’t deviate from the schedule below by more than 10 minutes.

5)??? Every hour, starting at 5:00 PM (i.e. 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, act.) until you have diarrhea – Drink ? cup cold water with 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt.?

6)??? 9:45 PM – Be ready for bed, make one last trip to the bathroom.? Combine ? to ? cup of freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice and ? olive oil in a jar.? Close the jar tightly with the lid and shake hard until watery (only fresh grapefruit juice does this).

7)????10:00 PM – Drink grapefruit juice and olive oil mixture.? You may take 4-8 Ornithine with the first sip of the mixture to help you sleep.? Ornithine (L-Ornithine) can be found at a health food store.? Then lie down in your bed immediately.? The sooner you lie down the more stones you will get out.? Lie down flat on your back with your head high on the pillow, perfectly still for at least 20 minutes.? Try to think about what is happening in the liver.? You may feel a train of stones traveling along the bile ducts like marbles.? There is no pain because the bile duct valves are open (thanks to the Epsom salt).? Go to sleep.? You may fail to get stones out if you don’t.

8)????After 6:00 AM the next morning – Drink ? cup cold water with 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt.? If you have indigestion or nausea wait until it is gone before drinking mixture.? You may go back to bed.

9)????2 hours later – Drink ? cup cold water with 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt.? You may go back to bed.

10)? 2 more hours later – Drink fruit juice.

11)? ? hour later – Eat fruit.

12)? 1 hour later – You may eat regular food but keep it light.? By supper you should feel recovered.

Expect diarrhea in the morning consisting of green pea looking balls (cholesterol) and tan looking chalk (crystals) floating in the toilet.? You may repeat cleanses in two week intervals.? Never cleanse when you are ill.? The author cleansed 5-6 times then once every 6 months for life.?? He recommends eliminating most meats, especially red meat, fast food and fried foods totally.?? But consuming more fruits, fruit juices and vegetable juicing.

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Fatty Liver Disease - what you need to know

Fatty Liver disease is something my daughter was diagnosed with at the age of 11. In the 2 years since she has had the disease I have learned a lot. Unfortunately I have learned NOTHING from doctors. They do not understand this disease and they basically pat the patient on the head and tell them to lose weight and exercise and everything will? be ok. My daughter has tried and has not been successful and I now know that is because when your liver is not functioning correctly nothing internally is functioning right.

I am now driven to start a movement regarding this disease. Education of the general population is key. We think of sick livers being caused by alcohol or sharing dirty needles, we do not think of it associated to the ice cream cone we enjoyed at baskin robbins!

This disease has been diagnosed in children as young as 4, that is very scary, my 13 year old has a chronic illness and that is scary! These are CHILDREN, chronic illness is for the middle aged folks, the elderly even!! If its showing up in our kids our world is in serious trouble and we need to change things NOW!!

Feed your children organic foods, fresh fruits , fresh veggies, get your meat from a butcher , go back to basics please! No more convenience foods filled with chemicals…if you don’t understand what is on the side of the label why are you eating it!

I have approached the Canadian Liver Foundation about starting a sister foundation dedicated to Fatty Liver disease. I truly believe this will be as big as diabetes in the next 20 years and that a lot of us have it already without major symptoms. Once the major symptoms are showing up , you have damaged your liver and your goal is to prevent further deterioration! The next time you have a blood test ask to have your AST and ALT? levels checked, even if you are skinny on the outside you may be fat on the inside, so do not take it for granted that this is only a disease of the obese!

The sooner you find out about the condition of the liver , the easier it is to resolve with diet and exercise.

Hugs….and nope did not get that job from last week …but may have found my calling instead!

See my support group in facebook to understand this even further!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40124237301

Michelle

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Fatty Liver Matters

Please tell me you already knew this.

People with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition that often accompanies obesity and type 2 diabetes, have higher mortality rates than the general population, a new Swedish study found.

Patients with NAFLD were 69% percent more likely to die than the general Swedish population (standardized mortality ratio 1.69, 95% CI 1.24 to 2.25), according to a report in the February issue of Hepatology.

Patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a condition where fat buildup causes liver inflammation, were at 86% higher risk (95% CI 1.19 to 2.76; P=0.007).

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Vitamin E Beneficial to patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver

A new study (PIVENS?trial) indicated that patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver might benefits?from natural form of vitamin E (800 IU/day), but not from pioglitazone?(Actos).??

Nonalcoholic fatty liver or Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) currently affects about 4% of the American population and there is no approved therapy.? About 15% of patients with NASH progress to cirrhosis and patients with NASH experience fatty liver disease, insulin resistance, and obesity.

The new study is a multicenter?trial involving 247 nondiabetic adults with biopsy-proven NASH. Patients were allocated to the following 3 arms:?

80 patients to the insulin-sensitizer?pioglitazone?(Actos) (30 mg once daily)84 patients to vitamin E (800 IU/day)83 patients to placebo?

After 96 weeks, patients in the vitamin E therapy arm was associated with a significantly higher rate of improvement in NASH when compared with placebo (43% vs 19%; P = .001; number needed to treat, 4.2).

However, the difference in the rate of NASH improvement with pioglitazone?compared with placebo did not reach the prespecified 0.025 level of significance (34% vs. 19%; P?= .04; number needed to treat, 6.9).? Even though the pioglitazone?arm did not reach the statistical endpoint, pioglitazone still improve the histology in half of the NASH patients.?

Despite the positive results, the investigator, Dr. Harrison, still emphasized the importance of treating the causes (obesity, prediabetes and frank diabetes).?

In addition to prescribing vitamin E 800 IU/day, Dr. Harrison still aims to reduce patient’s weight (ideally 10% reduction) with diet and exercise up front.? Only in patients who are not able to lose the weight and with advanced disease will he then consider prescribing pioglitazone.

Published online in the April 28, 2010 issue of ?N Engl J Med.

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The Strong Silent Type

June 16, 2010 by gethealthywithme

Well silent I am not , but who knows what my liver might be thinking. The liver is the workhorse in our bodies, it filters out all the toxins we put in via drugs, alcohol, chemicals in processed foods and even the air we breathe…it all stops at the liver first.

If our liver is working well it will get rid of those toxins and the rest of your organs will be handed less work to do and everything inside us is happy!!

However when the liver starts to fail, it will not scream and yell at you, it will keep working to the best of its abilities , it won’t clean out as many toxins , but heck your other organs can handle them! They have had it easy for so many years…thanks to your liver.

Other charities get lots of funding from drug companies, not the liver foundation…the reason for that is pretty clear from my perspective. Drugs don’t help the liver in general. The liver needs to be treated with tender loving care by its owner, its really the only way to lessen the work and allow it to heal itself.? So why would drug companies throw money behind a charity that it can’t count on making money from!

The other huge problem for the Liver Foundation is the general public’s view of liver disease. We associate liver issues with someone who is an alcoholic, drug addict, tattoo parloured partier who is always having unprotected sex!

As long as we are NOT that person….we should be fine right! WRONG so completely wrong, but until your liver is badly damaged it will not complain…picture it as Donkey in winnie the pooh….just trudging along through life hoping someone will notice him!

I am involved in 2 different charity events for the liver foundation in the Toronto area this weekend and I hope you will stop by and show your support!

Friday I will be at Union Station for the morning rush hour and the afternoon rush collecting money for The Canadian Liver Foundation and again on Father’s day at Boston Pizza in Brampton at 410 and Steeles. Bring your dad for lunch and help a great cause with me!

for my daughters sake and for someone you love who doesn’t yet know they have liver disease!

Hugs

Michelle Clermont

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It's Liver-Lover, Boy!

In November 2009, I was diagnosed with hypertension stage 2; fatty liver and gallbladder polyp vs. cholesterolosis. I was sent home twice by our company doctor due to a blood pressure of around 180/120. I had abdominal ultrasound, lipid profile and other blood tests. My cardiologist also ordered an ECG just to rule out any heart ailment.

The results are shocking. My SGPT, SGOT and cholesterol levels are on high levels (but not high enough to suspect hep, I suppose). My gastro reassured me that despite the numbers, there’s nothing to worry about. He gave me Combizar, Norvasc and Lipanthyl and asked me to stay on medication until he tells me to stop, if ever he does.

Then in January 2010, I repeated the ultrasound and the blood chem. The SGPT and SGOT levels dropped a bit. Then about yesterday, I decided to repeat the tests. The levels dropped but my SGPT is still about twice the maximum level.

Our doctor said it’s okay as long as the numbers do not show an increase of 3 or 4 times. My blood pressure seems to be under control already.

About 4 hours from now, I am about to have another ultrasound test and I am really praying hard for the results to be favorable. I hope that there is nothing irreversibly wrong with my health.

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