Welcome the New Year with a Liver Detox
While indulging in celebratory feasting is one of the joys of Christmas, it can take its toll on the body, especially that hard-working liver. With the New Year upon us it is an excellent time to treat your body to a liver detox.
The liver performs many important metabolic functions that keep you feeling healthy. Among its many roles, the liver:
Processes nutrients so that they can be more efficiently absorbed into the body
Regulates blood composition to balance protein, fat, and sugar and removes toxins from the bloodstream. This allows healthy, clean blood to be pumped throughout your body
Produces essential chemicals to help blood to clot properly
Breaks down and metabolises alcohol and medications
Processes essential proteins and cholesterol
Produces bile to help the body digest and absorb fats; and
Stores essential vitamins and minerals
There are many ways in which a liver detox can help you to regain a feeling of wellbeing and vitality. An effective liver detox will remove harmful toxins and can assist in:
Improving the appearance of your skin
Increasing energy and concentration levels
Reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes
While eating a light, natural diet, getting plenty of exercise and lots of sleep will support an effective liver detox, there are also several herbal supplements you can take to supercharge your detox and safely restore your liver to optimum health. To really take your liver detox to the next level, you need to not only cut out harmful foods, but to add back in nutrient-rich foods and supplements to restore liver health.
PPC’s Herbal Liver Plex tonic is a powerful formula which contains dandelion root, turmeric root, St Mary’s thistle seed, plus a unique combination of other powerful herbs to help you naturally restore healthy liver function.
Turmeric Root
Turmeric root assists in reducing the accumulation of metabolic waste products within the body. Turmeric contains curcumin which is considered by many people to be one of the key ingredients of this naturally occurring plant. In fact, some believe curcumin can assist in removing cholesterol from the liver. A popular way to take turmeric during a liver detox is to brew it into a tea with ginger, honey, cinnamon and a sprinkling of black pepper. This turns it into a deliciously soothing tea that can also assist in improving digestion.
Milk Thistle (or St Mary’s Thistle Seed)
One of the most potent herbs for detoxifying the liver, milk thistle extract may assist the elimination of heavy metals, prescription medications, environmental pollutants, and alcohol in the liver. Not only is it considered the ‘king’ of detoxifying herbs, it also contains silymarin, an active ingredient that helps strengthen the liver while supporting healthy regeneration.
Dandelion Root
The key to offering symptomatic relief of flatulence and bloating, dandelion root helps the liver produce more bile which is required to breakdown fats. As well as assisting your liver to more efficiently eliminate toxins, it also helps to strengthen the immune system. An added benefit if you are keen on improving liver health, dandelion root coffee is an excellent coffee alternative during your detox. (Credit PPCherbs.com.au)
A few of our other favourite Detox solutions are:
Remedy Digestion Tea which is an effective digestion reset based on Ayurvedic wisdom or Trim Tea for a full body detox.
Spectrum Herbals Detox which contains Burdock, Licorice, Fennel, Echinacea and Dandelion to assist your body to detox naturally
