Reason #1 To Cleanse for 2012: The Liver

The liver is a silent warrior… steadfastly controlling digestion, hormone production and breakdown, energy storage and use, and of course: detoxification. With unfaltering loyalty, the liver is constantly ensuring that none of the poisons that enter our body (through food, drugs, air, water) do harm.  All this it does without our conscious awareness. It is said that the liver can be 80% nonfunctioning and still serve the body admirably.  

Reason #1 to Cleanse for 2012: The Liver
Tierney exercises her liver in Mexico this November.

During the holidays and other times of indulgence, the liver gets an extra workout. Imagine your last holiday party: a few too many glasses of red wine, rich protein meal (ham perhaps?) paired with carbs and fats (poor food combining) followed by at least one Christmas cookie and a cup of coffee to get you home safe. Not only are you busy during this season but so is your liver!  Alcohol, rich and fatty foods, caffeine and sugar all tax the liver.

Which brings us to:

Reason #1 to Cleanse for the New Year:

Your Liver!
 

Join The Herbalist for a New Year's Cleanse, beginning January 2nd!

Give your liver a Fresh Start for 2012! I can say with utter confidence that your liver has been good this year and deserves a Christmas gift… A break! A cleanse!  During our 10-day Cleanse, we will be eliminating foods that are hard to digest and avoiding alcohol, caffeine, tobacco and other toxins - this provides the liver well-earned rest and rejuvenation... this also speeds detoxification for a deeper cleanse. (In a later blog we will be discussing Liver Flush recipes, so stay tuned!)

Try to do 1-2 nice things for your liver each day. 

Here are some ideas:

Keep the liver well
with Liv! Well Extract.

-      Take 6 droppersful daily of an herbal liver tonic tincture. Choose 1 of The Herbalist’s therapeutic extracts: Detox, Renew-U, Liv! Well. Take before a a holiday party to help the liver process alcohol more efficiently, plus prevent hangovers. 

-      Drink a couple cups daily of a liver cleansing tea.  Choose from Renew-U, Mineral Spring, or fresh Ginger root tea.

-      Eat a salad of bitter greens like kale, endive, arugula, epazote, etc. dressed with lemon juice and olive oil.

-      Drink a green juice including beets, carrots, kale, parsley, garlic, celery, etc.

-      Eat yellow and orange foods: Lemons, grapefruits, carrots, sweet potatoes, turmeric, squash, onions.