Healthy Liver, Healthy Life
Healthy Liver, Healthy Life
By Dr. C.M. Curtis
02/21/2024
If I were asked to distill my approach to healing down to the two most fundamental recommendations, they would be these: Heal your liver and heal your gut.
I have written extensively about gut health (see my articles on leaky gut and candidiasis), so I will dedicate this article to that multitalented, all-important, miracle organ; the liver.
The liver is not only one of our most important organs, it is one of the most neglected. Only when blood tests show that the liver is struggling do we even take notice of the fact that we have one. Otherwise, we ignore it as it carries on its more than 500 functions (that we know of) in the body. However, some things can adversely affect the liver that do not show up on routine blood tests. In fact, there are things that can affect the liver for which we have no tests at all.
We are a society that rarely deals with causes of problems. Nor, for the most part, do we deal with prevention. We wait for a problem—in this case, a health problem—to occur and we then deal with the symptoms of the problem.
The average person takes better care of their car than their liver.
Cleansing: One Aspect of Liver Health.
Many health professionals believe the liver is perfectly able to cleanse itself and should be left alone until it begins to manifest symptoms or abnormal blood test results.
And, it’s true; the liver is very good at cleansing itself—under normal circumstances. But we don’t live in normal circumstances. The things that assault our livers on a daily basis are, in many cases, things that through all the millennia of human existence did not even exist until recent years.
Our bodies and our livers are constantly bombarded with chemicals coming at us from all directions. They are in our water, our air, our personal products, even the