*archive* 15 Ways to Love Your Liver

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and something I forgot to say earlier...NO TYLENOL!!

~mk

Liver disease is very serious. Here alcohol gets most

of the blame, but I suspect that pharmacueticals are

also one of the leading causes of liver damage and

failure. F.

 

 

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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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