Supplements are a great resource to provide your body with much needed nutrients. However, everything and anything you consume (food, drinks, and even thoughts!) will eventually go through the Liver for processing.
Give your Liver the love it needs by taking a break from all the different foods, drinks, supplements, and unnecessary thoughts you consume on a daily basis. Eat simpler and receive your nutrients from highly nutritive and beneficial foods for the Liver.
List of foods to support Liver Cleansing:
- Artichoke
- Green veggies: Asparagus, Cucumber, Broccoli-brassica/cruciferous, Celery
- Beets
- Radishes & Daikon
- Watercress
- Turmeric/Curcumin
- Leafy & Bitter Greens: Mustard, Sorrel, Arugula, Collards, Kale, Romaine, Endive, Dandelion
- Barley greens
- Burdock (gobo)
- Parsley
- Garlic & Onion
- Chlorophyll, Wheat grasses, Seaweeds & Spirulina (Like Dragon's Den Green Drink)
- Sour Fruits: Lemons, Lime, Tangerine, Grapefruit, Crab apple, Sour plums
- Fruits: Grapes, Papaya, Mango, Raspberries Tomato
- Olives, Olive oil , Sauerkraut, Apple cider vinegar, Molasses, Brewers yeast, Cayenne
- Almonds, Sesame seeds/Tahini
- Lentils, Adzuki beans
- Kefir yogurt
- Green tea (Like Organic Gen Maicha Green Tea)
- Schizandra, Milk thistle, Rose hips
Also to support the Liver:
- Eat 50 to 80 grams of high quality protein (lower for those with liver dysfunction)
- Eat only small amounts of unsaturated fats
- Eat small meals, easily digested foods like: endive, collards, dandelion leaves, ginger, fennel, cardamom, steamed veggies, apples, pears
- Eliminate sugar, as sugar lowers immune and enzyme activity
- To increase enzyme activity, eat foods with sulfur (Garlic, Onions, Broccoli, Cruceriferous vegetables)
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