What your liver is telling you

Our bodies are a wonderful thing. Even while we’re sleeping, they’re rebuilding themselves. New blood cells. New bone cells. New tissue cells. New brain cells! It’s truly out with the old and in with the new each year. Of course, some tissue takes longer to replace than others. The liver, for example, needs regeneration every three weeks or so.

It’s little wonder. As one of the largest organs in the body, the liver is busy 24/7 performing many important jobs. Among other things, it cleanses the body of toxins and bacteria, produces bile to help
digest food, and gathers and stores important nutrients, such as vitamins, for our bodies to use later. With such a key role, it’s critical for the liver to stay healthy. And that’s why it needs to rebuild itself so often. Read More

A.M. Liver Cleanse

• 1 large grapefruit
• 2 lemons
• 1 cup of filtered water
• 1 tablespoon of cold pressed flax oil
• 1 inch of fresh root ginger
• Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)

Squeeze the juice of the grapefruit and lemon into a blender. Next, grate the ginger and squeeze this into the juice. Add the water and oil, then blend for 30 seconds. Add more ginger.

This juice contains all the most potent ingredients to cleanse your liver, giving a gentle flush. For best results, drink it 30 minutes before breakast.

If you’re pressed for time and want to keep it simple, try this instead:

Hot Grapefruit Water

• 3 1/2 cups boiling water
• 1/2 cup fresh grapefruit juice

Place the water in a large jug; stir in juice. Drink up!