We are living in an environment that exposes us to toxins everyday. It is in our food, our water, our air, the clothes we wear, and the products we use. It is difficult to protect yourself from all of these hazards, but it isn’t impossible. By being particular with what we put into our bodies and what we expose ourselves to can do a great deal for our health.
But sometimes we are overpowered by these outside influences and we fall ill. That is when we trust our body to get us back to health through natural healing. But what happens when our body can’t look after itself? What do we do then?
The Importance Of Your Liver
Our livers are responsible for cleansing our bodies of toxins that have the potential to make us very ill. It detoxifies our blood from toxins, drugs, and alcohol. It stores vitamins and minerals, and converts stored sugar into usable energy for our body. It produces bile that helps digest fats, breaks down hemoglobin, insulin, and other hormones, and destroy old red blood cells.
With so many important functions that keep our body running at it’s highest level, when our liver is sick we feel it everywhere. We get nauseous, we can’t eat, we lose weight at an unhealthy rate, we essentially break down.
Foods To Protect Your Liver
We need to keep our liver healthy so that we can be healthy as a whole. One for all and all for one is the motto we should adopt when it comes to our health and our organs. Here are the best foods to help cleanse and heal an unhealthy liver.
Beets and Carrots
Carrots are rich in glutathione, a protein that helps detoxify the liver. Both are extremely high in flavonoids and beta-carotene. Eating beets and carrots can help stimulate and improve overall liver function. Dry drinking plenty of raw juices with beets and carrots.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are high in glutathione which we know is a great detoxifier for the liver. It also contains lycopene which will protect against breast, skin, and lung cancer.
Grapefruit
Another source of glutathione it is also high in vitamin C and antioxidants, which boost the production of liver detoxification enzymes and increase the liver’s natural cleansing process.
Spinach
Raw spinach is another major source of glutathione, triggering the toxin cleansing enzymes of the liver. It’s easy to cook, and also great in soup.
Citrus Fruits
Lemons and limes contain very high amounts of vitamin C, which stimulates the liver and aids the synthesizing of toxic materials into substances that can be absorbed by water.
Cabbage
The isothiocyanates (ITCs) made from cabbage’s glucosinolates provides the liver with detoxifying enzymes that help flush out toxins.
Turmeric
Turmeric is one of the most potent natural healers and the liver’s favorite spice. It helps boost liver detox by assisting enzymes that actively flush out dietary carcinogens.
Walnuts
Walnuts are not only a good source of glutathione but also omega-3 fatty acids, and the amino acid arginine, which supports normal liver cleansing function, especially when detoxifying ammonia.
Avocados
A nutrient-dense superfood, avocado helps the body produce glutathione as well as a source of the healthy fatty acid, omega-3.
Apples
Apples are high in pectin and other chemicals essential to cleansing and releasing toxins from the digestive tract. They make it easier for the liver to handle higher amounts of toxins during the cleansing process.
These 10 foods listed here are some of the most powerful foods you can eat to help heal your liver, but they aren’t the only foods to eat. Here is a more extensive list of foods to eat that can all be easily included in your diet and should be made a priority on your plate when healing your body.
