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How to Naturally Strengthen the Liver and Avoid Deadly Liver Damage
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With a few lifestyle changes and herbal treatments, however, you can strengthen and help your liver reverse any damage.
- Herbal Teas – There are a large number of herbal teas you can drink to help your liver regenerate itself. Green tea is especially helpful.
- Water – Exchange sodas and coffee for plenty of water, especially water with some lemon juice. Lemon stimulates the secretion of bile,
- Limit Alcohol – The longer you drink, and the more you drink, the more damage you are doing to your liver. Before you reach that point of no return, do your liver favor and stop drinking, or cut back to no more than 1 drink a day for women and two for men.
- Limit Caffeine – Caffeine leaves toxic deposits on your liver. Have no more than two cups of coffee each day.
- Stop Smoking – It’s difficult, true, but well worth the effort.
- Eat More Berries – All types of berries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, all contain organic acids that lower sugar levels in your blood and help to burn fat, which lessens your risk of developing fatty liver disease.
- Maintain a healthy body weight.
- Avoid Fatty Foods – Avoiding fatty foods such as French fries, cakes, cookies, and potato chips, processed foods, junk foods, and fast foods. Replace them with a healthy diet filled with organic fruits and vegetables.
- Garlic – Increase your consumption of garlic. Not only is it good for the heart, it improves liver function by flushing toxins.
- Follow Instructions – Always follow the dosing instructions given on bottles of over the counter medications and prescription meds. Even herbal medications, when taken in excess, can damage the liver.
- Diabetics – If you are diabetic, monitor your blood sugar levels carefully, and watch your blood pressure. Stay in close contact with your physician and advise them if you experience anything out of the ordinary, or any of the symptoms listed above.
- Good Hygiene – Always maintain good hygiene habits to avoid viral infections, especially hepatitis, via contaminated blood, water, food, and other body fluids.
- Herbs that Cleanse – There are a multitude of herbs that help the liver to cleanse and strengthen itself including milk thistle, chicory root, licorice root, dandelion, greater celandine, yellow dock root, and more.
Your liver is absolutely essential to your survival, so it makes perfect sense that you should do whatever is necessary to keep your liver working at its absolute best. So, change those bad habits, today! It is difficult, true, but more than worth it. Your liver is counting on you!
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Liver disease can be treated in its early stages. If you think you might be experiencing liver problems, or if you are experiencing any of the symptoms listed above, always consult your physician. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, someone once said, and this applies to the health of your liver as well.
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