15 Ways to Love Your Liver

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15 Ways to Love Your Liver

 

There must be FIFTEEN WAYS TO LOVE YOUR LIVER

1. Put the six-pack back, Jack

Half of all the alcohol consumed in America is consumed by only ten percent of

the population. One in three adult Americans is a heavy drinker, with a

sufficient liquor habit to be indistinguishable from an alcoholic. Such

behavior wrecks livers.

Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis of the liver is a rather rare disease, except among alcoholics... who

make it the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S.! And it is 4th or 5th,

in large cities among adult men. It usually takes a half quart of whiskey daily

for ten years to abuse the liver to the point of cirrhosis.

The fibrous tissue that replaces normal liver in cirrhosis causes decreased

liver function. Of course this leads to fluid buildup, jaundice and perhaps

cancer of the liver. Cirrhosis is fairly easy to arrest by stopping alcohol.

But cure is difficult and generally considered impossible. Well, as they say in

the Marines, the difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little

longer.

Reversing cirrhosis is reduced to being merely very difficult if you employ the

Gerson program (referenced below) and very high doses of vitamin C and B-complex

vitamins. The corticosteroids (Prednisone) are commonly tried but the side

effects are undesirable, and the drug is probably ineffective.

Prevention is the way to go: stop drinking. Sure, as W. C. Fields said, " It's

easy to give up drinking; I've done it a thousand times.' But consider this:

Fields, the highest paid comic of his time, who drank over a quart of hard

liquor a day, was dead at age 66. That's not so funny.

2. Avoid the virus, Iris

Hepatitis

Acute viral hepatitis, or " infectious hepatitis " is now called hepatitis A.

" Chronic, " " long incubation, " " serum, " and " posttransfusion " are now called type

B. Non-A non-B may be more than one agent. All respond remarkably well to very

large doses of vitamin C, the B-complex vitamins and the Gerson therapy,

described below.

3. Take a lot more " C, " Lee

Vincent Zannoni at the University of Michigan Medical School has shown that

vitamin C protects the liver. Even doses as low as 500 milligrams daily helps

prevent fatty buildup and cirrhosis. 5,000 mg of vitamin C per day appears to

actually flush fats from the liver. (Ritter, M. " Study Says Vitamin C Could Cut

Liver Damage, " Associated Press, October 11, 1986) And vitamin C over 50,000

mg/day (not a misprint) results in patients feeling better in just a few days,

and actually eliminates jaundice in under a week. (Cathcart, Robert F. III

(1981) The method of determining proper doses of vitamin C for the treatment of

disease by titrating to bowel tolerance. Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry.

10:125-132.) Frederick Klenner, MD, found that such huge doses of vitamin C had

his patients recovered and back to work in under a week. (Klenner, Frederick R.

(1971) Observations on the dose of administration of ascorbic acid when employed

beyond the range of a vitamin in human

pathology. Journal of Applied Nutrition. 23(3 and 4), pp 61-68, Winter.) These

and additional references are found in the highly-recommended book by Melvyn

Werbach, MD (1988) Nutritional Influences on Illness. New Canaan, CT: Keats

Publishing.

Immediate and detailed information on vitamin C dosage and administration,

written by medical doctors, will be found at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

 

4. Don't trust in a shot, Dot

Even if you choose to vaccinate, it is immeasurably reassuring to remember this:

Dr. Klenner showed that very large doses of vitamin C (between 500 to 900 mg per

kilogram body weight per day) can cure hepatitis in as little as two to four

days (Smith, L. H., ed. Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C, Life Science

Press, Tacoma Washington, 1988, pp 22-23).

5. Take vitamin B, Dee

Especially vitamin B-12, which significantly reduces jaundice, anorexia, serum

bilirubin, and recovery time. (Jain, A.S.C., Mukerji, D. P (1960) Observations

on the therapeutic value of intravenous B-12 in infective hepatitis. Journal of

the Indian Medical Association. 35:502-5; also Campbell, R. E. and Pruitt, F.W.

(1952) Vitamin B-12 in the treatment of viral hepatitis. American Journal of

Medical Science, 224:252) B-12 is most effective if administered by injection,

which your doctor can easily arrange. If injection is not an option, there is

an intra-nasal gel that improves absorption. B-12 is non-prescription, utterly

non-toxic, and has no contraindications and no negative side effects.

6. Eat veggies and greens, Gene

The fiber and abundant nutrients in vegetables are a sure way to improve the

health of practically any organ you can name, especially the liver. Vegetables

are esentially fat-free. And, they are rich in the B-vitamin folic acid.

(Folic, like in foliage. Neat, huh?) Folate has been shown to help shorten the

recovery time for viral hepatitis. (Campbell, R. E. and Pruitt, F. W. (1955) The

effect of vitamin B-12 and folic acid in the treatment of viral hepatitis.

American Journal of Medical Science, 229:8)

7. Eat your food raw, Paw

Or at least as much of it as you can. Max Gerson, M.D. believed that cancer in

general is a disease of the liver even if occurring elsewhere in the body.

Gerson's nutritional therapy is a raw-foods protocol that is often very

effective against cancer, as well as lesser diseases. Cancer in the liver

itself is often due to environmental toxins, such as dry-cleaning fluids. I

have personally seen a terminal liver cancer case (and the patient had indeed

been a dry cleaner for many years) vastly improved with the Gerson program. Full

dietary details are provided in his book A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases.

8. Get off the drugs, Doug

Illegal drugs of all sorts (and not a few prescription drugs as well) are rough

on the liver. This includes anabolic steroids. The liver is the main chemical

detoxification center for your entire body. Don't push it; quit now before your

liver quits on you.

9. Eat less fat, Matt

The liver is the largest gland in the body, weighing in at about 4 pounds.

Diseases of the liver may result in diminished ability to emulsify fats. Your

liver normally makes 250 to 1,000 ml (over a quart!) of bile DAILY. Most (about

80%) of your bile salts are reabsorbed by the intestinal tract and returned to

and recycled by the liver. This is how your body, with about 3.6 grams of total

bile salts in it, can secrete 4 to 8 g of bile salts per single fatty meal.

Gross, huh?

Fatty liver is much more common than you would expect. 25% of people have this

condition, according to the Merck Manual, 14th ed. Fatty liver is the most

common response of the liver to injury. It typifies the alcoholic's liver upon

admission to the hospital. The Merck Manual indicates " no specific treatment "

(p. 830) and says it likely indicates other problems, such as alcohol, drugs or

malnutrition (oh, my!) Treatment certainly includes cessation of alcohol

intake. Therapeutic juice fasting gives the liver an opportunity to use all

those extra built-up fats.

10. Use safe sex, Tex

If you are not in a monogamous relationship, you are at increased risk for

hepatitis.

11. Wash your hands, Stan

Good grief, is that so hard to do? After a bowel movement, that paper you use to

clean up with is thinner than a politician's election promise. Do you really

think the tissue keeps you hands squeaky clean? To put it another way, do you

think it keeps someone else's hands clean enough for you? No? Then wash your

hands with soap and hot water! I read once that over half of all physicians

don't wash their mitts after using the toilet. I hope this is not true. My

supposition is that it is, however. When heads of state, billionaires, or

doctors use the john, they are about as likely as you to do what you do. Think

about that in your spare time today. And wash.

12. Prevent that stone, Joan

Now here's an obvious argument for vegetarian diet, as only animal foods

contain cholesterol, and cholesterol forms gallstones. Some people manufacture

excessive cholesterol, and this can be controlled through intelligent use of

therapeutic vegetable juice fasting and large doses of vitamin C, both of which

significantly reduce cholesterol production.

13. Spare the bile, Kyle

About 33 ml of bile is stored in the average gallbladder. Many animals (rats,

for instance) do not even have one. In addition to bile salts for

emulsification, bile contains the pigment bilirubin, neutral fat, phospholipid,

assorted mineral salts... and high concentrations of cholesterol.

The gallbladder is more than a storage receptacle. Bile is concentrated in the

gallbladder. Also, water is removed, and resulting concentrated cholesterol

level may be too much to remain in solution and cholesterol gallstones may

precipitate out. In addition to hurting, gallstones obstruct the bile duct and

thereby interfere with fat digestion. One indicator: light-colored stools.

Why? Bilirubin, the bile pigment, darkens them to brown-green. Otherwise, stools

would be manila to greyish-white in color. Ugh. Low-fat meals probably help

prevent future gallbladder problems.

14. Eat lecithin, Tim

Phospholipids in bile help emulsify cholesterol. Lecithin therapy is therefore

almost certainly worth trying for threatened gallstones. Three to five

tablespoons daily is more likely to be effective than a few capsules. Even a

large 1,200 mg capsule contains only about 1/8 tablespoon lecithin because of

size limits and added carrier oils. Lecithin is harmless and without side

effects. Bulk granules run between $8 and $15 per pound. Lecithin is

non-prescription, and available at any health food store.

15. Be sure to read, Steed

References and Sources Cited:

Gerson, Max A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, Totality Books, Del Mar, CA

Ray, O. and Ksir, C. Drugs, Society and Human Behavior, Mosby, 1990, chapter 9

Vander, Sherman and Luciano Human Physiology

Werbach, M. (1988) Nutritional Influences on Illness. New Canaan, CT: Keats

Publishing.

Williams, Sue R. (1993) Nutrition and Diet Therapy, seventh edition. St. Louis:

Mosby.

 

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