Signs Your Liver Needs A Detox + How To Do It Naturally!

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The liver is a critical organ. It transforms toxins into waste that your body can safely expel via urine or poop.

It’s a tough job, especially considering just how prevalent toxins are in our modern environment.

With time and a lack of proper care to avoid those toxins, the liver becomes overwhelmed and sluggish. Instead of getting rid of toxins, it stores them in fat cells – especially around the belly.

Ten signs your liver is telling you it needs help:

- Abdominal bloatingpain or discomfort over the liver – (right upper abdominal area under the rib cage).

- Excessive abdominal fat; pot belly; or a roll around the upper abdomen.

- Trouble digesting fatty foods

- Had your gallbladder removed

- Acid reflux / heartburn

- Dark spots on the skin commonly referred to liver spots

- Overheating of the body & excessive perspiration

- Acne/rosacea or itchy, blotchy skin

- Unexplained weight gain and inability to lose weight even with calorie restriction

These are all signs that your liver is blocked or clogged up with unhealthy fat – in extreme cased it’s called fatty liver.

When this happens the cells that act as a filter become too swollen with fat and the liver cannot screen out or filter the many substances being passed through it.

Here are the 6 steps for my liver cleanse:

1. Remove Toxic Foods From Your Diet

If you are eating a diet high in processed foods, you are putting the health of your liver at risk. Hydrogenated oils, refined sugar, convenience foods and lunch meats are notoriously toxic to your system.

2. Drink Raw Vegetable Juice

With impaired liver function, juicing vegetables has the added benefit of making the vegetables easier to digest, and more readily available for absorption.

3. Load Up On Potassium Rich Foods

Potassium-rich foods help to lower systolic blood pressure, lower cholesterol and support a healthy cardiovascular system, in addition to helping cleanse your liver. Add these healthful foods to your diet:

- Sweet Potatoes

- Tomato Sauces

- Beet Greens and Spinach

- Beans

- Bananas
4. Coffee Enemas

Combine 2 tablespoons of organic ground coffee with 3 cups of filtered or distilled water and bring to a boil. Simmer gently for 15 minutes and allow to cool. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth and use in your enema kit. Try to retain the mixture for 10-15 minutes, and then release.

5. Take Milk Thistle

Milk thistle helps to eliminate the buildup of heavy metals, prescription medications, environmental pollutants and alcohol in the liver. In addition, it helps to reduce the negative effects on the liver after chemotherapy and radiation.

6. Eat Real Liver or Take Liver Tablets

Liver from young, healthy, grass-fed cattle or chicken liver is rich with Vitamins A and B, folic acid, choline, iron, copper, zinc, chromium and CoQ10. Liver is one of the most nutrient-dense foods we can eat.