About Your Liver

Did you know that your liver is the only organ capable of regenerating itself? This should tell you how important an organ it really is!

Your liver is the hardest working organ in the human body. It performs many functions that are vital to life. It plays an important role in digestion (breaking nutrients down) and assimilation (building up body tissues). It is the storage site for many essential vitamins and minerals, such as iron, copper, B12, vitamins A, D, E and K. Red blood cells, which are responsible for carrying oxygen around the body, are also produced in the liver and Kupffer cells help to devour harmful micro-organisms in the blood so helping to fight infection.

Among its many functions, the most important role of the liver is that of detoxification. The liver detoxifies harmful substances by a complex series of chemical reactions. The role of these various enzyme activities in the liver is to convert fat soluble toxins into water soluble substances that can be excreted in the urine or the bile depending on the particular characteristics of the end product.

Every day our bodies are bombarded with toxins from both outside (exotoxins) — the polluted environment, medications, alcohol, cigarette smoke, car exhaust emissions and toxins from within the body (endotoxins) — the by-products of nutrient breakdown, hormones and bacterial waste products from the intestines. All produce harmful substances. It is the role of the liver to render these potentially harmful products into less harmful compounds.

The effects of exposure to toxins varies from individual to individual. Some people are highly sensitive to different endo and exo toxins. Others, because their bodies are more resilient and their livers can detoxify more efficiently, are not so sensitive.

When optimum nutrition is provided the liver operates efficiently. A great many people however, do not eat the right kinds of foods to provide the liver with everything it needs for the elimination of the extra toxins our bodies are exposed to on a daily basis. If nutrition is compromised through poor dietary and lifestyle habits, this will have implications on detoxification processes, and other organ functions will suffer as the body retains the toxins it cannot eliminate.

The rate at which the liver can eliminate toxins can determine an individual's susceptibility to toxic overload, which in turn can lead to symptoms of ill-health. When the liver becomes so overloaded with harmful toxins that the enzymes that break them down can no longer cope, the toxins build up and this then manifests itself in a specific disease state which, without the intervention of correct nutrition, can become a vicious circle of chronic toxic overload.

Many inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis, cardiovascular problems, headaches, chronic fatigue and premature ageing can all be related to a build up of toxins that the liver is unable to cope with.

So, you should surmise by what I've said before that it's very important we improve your liver function.

Your liver is the hardest working organ in the human body

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